When you are finished changing, you are finished.

There seems to be three ways for a nation to acquire wealth: the first is by war...this is robbery; the second by commerce, which is generally cheating; the third by agriculture, the only honest way.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

Love well, whip well.

By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration.

I've striven my whole life for humility, but if I'd ever achieved it, I'd probably be pretty damn proud of that.