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

- Francois Guizot

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…

- Francois Guizot

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

- Francois Guizot

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…

- Francois Guizot

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

- Francois Guizot

Common sense is the genius of mankind.

- Francois Guizot

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

- Francois Guizot

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

- Francois Guizot

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

- Francois Guizot