Samuel Smiles Quote

No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.


Ch. I : Self-Help — National and Individual - Self-Help; with Illustrations of Character and Conduct (1859)


No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.

No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.

No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.

No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.