It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead.

No instance exists of a person's writing two language perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to him in his youth.

When the heart is right, the feet are swift.

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.

If, in my retirement to the humble station of a private citizen, I am accompanied with the esteem and approbation of my fellow citizens, trophies obtained by the bloodstained steel, or the tattered flags of the tented field, will never be envied. The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.

When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.