No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

Man ... feels that he is a participator in the government of affairs not merely at an election, one day in the year, but every day.

Every gentleman plays billiards, but someone who plays billiards too well, is no gentleman.

Don't spend your money till you have it.

I love peace, and am anxious that we should give the world still another useful lesson, by showing to them other modes of punishing injuries than by war, which is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.

The smell rewards the care.

My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolition of war-and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair.