The sickly, weakly, timid man fears the people, and is a Tory by nature. The healthy, strong and bold cherishes them, and is formed a Whig by nature.

Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence.

I hope the necessity will at length be seen of establishing institutions, here as in Europe, where every branch of science, useful at this day, may be taught in it's highest degrees.

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

None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army

We figure great careers aren't made. They're experienced.

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