A biography for Samuel Smileshasn’t been written yet.
“Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.”
“It is idleness that is the curse of man - not labour. Idleness eats the heart out of men as of nations, and consumes them as rust does iron.”
“He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.”
“Character is property. It is the noblest of possessions.”
“We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.”