“Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.”

“If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius”

“A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy”

“We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and, when got, the repose is insupportable”

“If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women”

“Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done”