Common sense is the genius of mankind.

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

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

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.

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.