There is no habit you will value so much as that of walking far without fatigue.

What we learn to do, we learn by doing.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state.

Your own reason is the only oracle given to you by God.

An industrious farmer occupies a more dignified place in the scale of beings...than a lazy lounger...too proud to work, and drawing out a miserable existence by eating on that surplus of other men's labor.