One never really knows how much one has been touched by a place until one has left it.

I am savage enough to prefer the woods, the wilds, and the independence of Monticello, to all the brilliant pleasures of this gaycapital [Paris].

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

I have learned to be less confident in the conclusions of human reason, and give more credit to the honesty of contrary opinions.

I prefer to be remembered for what I have done for others, not what others have done for me.

The oppressed should rebel, and they will continue to rebel and raise disturbance until their civil rights are fully restored to them and all partial distinctions, exlusions, and incapacitations are removed.

Preachers dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight.