Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.

While the farmer holds the title to the land, actually, it belongs to all the people because civilization itself rests upon the soil.

Of all the errors which can possibly be committed to the education of youth, that of sending them to Europe is the most fatal. I see [clearly] that no American should come to Europe under 30 years of age.

The olive tree is surely the richest gift of Heaven. I can scarcely expect bread.

We have solved, by fair experiment, the great and interesting question whether freedom of religion is compatible with order in government and obedience to the laws. And we have experienced the quiet as well as the comfort which results from leaving every one to profess freely and openly those principles of religion which are the inductions of his own reason and the serious convictions of his own inquiries.

Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical.

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