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

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

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

Nothing falsifies history more than logic.

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

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.

Common sense is the genius of mankind.