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 lost; it is only then that cause triumphs.

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

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

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

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 lost; it is only then that cause triumphs.

Nothing falsifies history more than logic.

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