Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.
There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.
Everything yields to diligence
The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.
In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance
I find that the harder I work , the more luck I seem to have.
Taste cannot be controlled by law.
I steer my bark with hope in my heart leaving fear astern.
Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
The probable accumulation of the surpluses of revenue beyond what can be applied to the payment of the public debt... merits the consideration of Congress. Shall it lie unproductive in the public vaul...
Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, wh...
Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.
New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature.
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.