Samuel Smiles People Quotations

The healthy spirit of self-help created among working people would, more than any other measure, serve to raise them as a class; and this, not by pulling down others, but by levelling them up to a higher and still advancing standard of religion, intelligence, and virtue.

The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly.

The principal industrial excellence of the English people lay in their capacity of present exertion for a distant object.