It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement, convinced that their cause is….

Do not be afraid of enthusiasm. You need it. You can do nothing effectively without it..

The effect of great and inevitable misfortune is to elevate those souls which it does not deprive of all virtue..

The world belongs to optimists; the pessimists are only spectators..

The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty.

Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth..

The man who is fond of complaining likes to remain amid the objects of his vexation. He will most strongly revolt against every means proposed for hi….

Nothing falsifies history more than logic..

Common sense is the genius of mankind..

If I had not smoked I should have been dead ten years ago..