I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it. — Edgar Allan Poe

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. — Helen Keller
Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy. — Lao Tzu
Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times. — Martin Luther
That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward. — Edgar Allan Poe
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. — Edgar Allan Poe
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. — Edgar Allan Poe