The plough is to the farmer what the wand is to the sorcerer. Its effect is really like sorcery.

Don't spend your money till you have it.

If some period be not fixed, either by the Constitution or by practice, to the services of the First Magistrate, his office, though nominally elective, will, in fact, be for life, and that will soon degenerate into an inheritance.

Travelling. ... when men of sober age travel, they gather knowlege which they may apply usefully for their country

Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.

Difference of opinion leads to enquiry, and enquiry to truth; and I am sure...we both value too much the freedom of opinion sanctioned by our Constitution, not to cherish its exercise even where in opposition to ourselves.

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.