When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our minds to it, meet it with firmness, and accommodate everything to it in the best way practicable. This lessens the evil; while fretting and fuming only serves to increase your own torments.

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

Travelling is good for your health and necessary for your amusement.

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties.

We generally learn languages for the benefit of reading the books written in them

No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.