It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate.

When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.

Heliotrope. To be sowed in the spring. A delicious flower, but I suspect it must be planted in boxes and kept in the house in the winter. The smell rewards the care.

When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our minds to it, meet it with firmness, and accommodate everything to it in the best way practicable. This lessens the evil; while fretting and fuming only serves to increase your own torments.

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

All men are created equal and have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

The moral sense is the first excellence of well-organized man.