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.

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

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

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.

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