We are here lounging our time away, doing nothing, and having nothing to do. It gives me great regret to be passing my time so uselessly when it could have been so importantly employed at home.

Travelling is good for your health and necessary for your amusement.

Most men die at age 25, but aren't buried until 70.

When we consider how much climate contributes to the happiness of our condition, by the fine sensation it excites, and the productions it is the parent of, we have reason to value highly the accident of birth in such a one as that of Virginia.

It is every Americans' right and obligation to read and interpret the Constitution for himself.

When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.