If any form of government is capable of making a nation happy, ours I think bids fair now for producing that effect. But after all much depends upon the people who are governed.

Virtue and Happiness are Mother and Daughter.

To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote.

Joy doesn't exist in the world, it exists in us.

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?

I wish it were possible, from this instance, to invent a method of embalming drowned persons in such a manner that they may be recalled to life at any period, however distant; for having a very ardent desire to see and observe the state of America a hundred years hence, I should prefer to any ordinary death the being immersed in a cask of Madeira wine with a few friends till that time, to be then recalled to life by the solar warmth of my dear country!

I am what I am and that's all that I am and if I'm supposed to be somebody else, why do I look like me?