Quote of the day
The first duty towards children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that.
Samuel Smiles
Born: December 23, 1812
Died: April 16, 1904 (aged 91)
Bio: Samuel Smiles was a Scottish author and government reformer who campaigned on a Chartist platform. But he concluded that more progress would come from new attitudes than from new laws.
Known for:
- Self Help (1859)
- Lives of the Engineers (1861)
- The Life of George Stephenson
- Thrift (1876)
- Men of Invention and Industry (1884)
Samuel Smiles Quotes