I have lived temperately....I double the doctor's recommendation of a glass and a half wine each day and even treble it with a friend.

I could think of no worse example for nations abroad, who for the first time were trying to put free electoral procedures into effect, than that of the United States wrangling over the results of our presidential election, and even suggesting that the presidency itself could be stolen by thievery at the ballot box.

Sensibility of mind is indeed the parent of every virtue, but it is the parent of much misery, too.

Those are governed best who are governed least.

All men are created equal and have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Female education ... has occupied my attention so far only as the education of my own daughters ... I thought it essential to give them a solid education which might enable them, when become mothers, to educate their own daughters, and even to direct the course for sons, should their fathers be.

I am a sect by myself, as far as I know.