I could not sleep when I got on such a hunt for an idea until I had caught it; ...This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck by me; for I am never easy now, when I am handling a thought, till I have bounded it north, and bounded it south, and bounded it east, and bounded it west.

Every person is responsible for his own looks after 40.

It is a good face. I am glad this war is over at last.

The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.

In order to win a man to your cause, you must first reach his heart, the great high road to his reason.

The provision of the Constitution giving the war making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons: Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This our convention understood to be the most oppressive of all kingly oppressions, and they resolved to so frame the constitution that no man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.

The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts.