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

Nothing falsifies history more than logic.

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

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

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