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

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

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

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

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

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