Francois Guizot Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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