Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.

Admiration, n.: Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.

Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.

His hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him.

Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel.

Bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.

Am I my brother's keeper?

My punishment is greater than I can bear

For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

It is not good that the man should be alone.

Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

For every man shall bear his own burden,

The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.

Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath.

He will laugh thee to scorn.

He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.

Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; all is vanity.

Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was; and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.

Man goeth to his long home.

And the grasshopper shall be a burden.

Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth.

Cast thy bread upon the waters; for thou shalt find it after many days.

It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting.

Be not righteous overmuch

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet.

For a living dog is better than a dead lion,

The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong.

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.

There is no new thing under the sun.

All is vanity and vexation of spirit.

He kept him as the apple of his eye.

Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.

Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.

Touch not; taste not; handle not.

It is more blessed to give than to receive.

It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.

I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night.

By evil report and good report.

Behold, now is the accepted time,

We walk by faith, not by sight.

Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake.

The laborer is worthy of his reward.

Not greedy of filthy lucre.

For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labor of love.

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about seeking whom he may devour.

Charity shall cover the multitude of sins.

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear.

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?

The first man is of the earth, earthy.

Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

For now we see through a glass, darkly.

When I was a child I spake as a child.

As sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.

For the fashion of this world passeth away,

Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

Absent in body, but present in spirit.

I am made all things to all men.

I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.

Every man's work shall be made manifest.

The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished, and put inside boxes.

Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.

Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth *and* fresher breath.

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.

We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it.

Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.

Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.

I think Superman should go on the Larry King show and announce that he would come back to life if people in all 50 states wanted him to.

I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.

Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.

Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing

Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.

Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.

Knowledge is power.

Ask counsel of both times-of the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.

In charity there is no excess.

In charity there is no excess.

Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

There be three things which make a nation great and prosperous: a fertile soil, busy workshops, easy conveyance for men and goods from place to place.

The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to the more ought law to weed it out.

Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.

Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.

Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.

Nature is a labyrinth in which the very haste you move with will make you lose your way.

Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.

In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and for angels to be lookers-on.

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.

I have taken all knowledge to be my province.

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

He of whom many are afraid ought to fear many.

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.

By far the best proof is experience.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

The more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously.... Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with.

Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex.

I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.

How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?

When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point, be they ever so poor, or ever so imprudent, or ever so little likely to be necessary to each other's ultimate comfort.

We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days.

We certainly do not forget you as soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves. We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us. You are forced on exertion. You have always a profession, pursuits, business of some sort or other, to take you back into the world immediately, and continual occupation and change soon weaken impressions. All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one; you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.

To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.

To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all.

There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.

The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away.

The only time I ever really suffered in body or mind, the only time that I ever fancied myself unwell, or had any ideas of danger, was the winter that I passed by myself. As long as we could be together, nothing ever ailed me, and I never met with the smallest inconvenience.

She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped.

One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

Knowing their feelings as she did, it was a most attractive picture of happiness to her. She always watched them as long as she could, delighted to fancy she understood what they might be talking of, as they walked along in happy independence, or equally delighted to see the Admiral's hearty shake of the hand when he encountered an old friend, and observe their eagerness of conversation when occasionally forming into a little knot of the navy, Mrs Croft looking as intelligent and keen as any of the officers around her.

It was the misfortune of poetry to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly.

I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few difficulties together, than be involved in a long engagement.

I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures.

I can safely say, that the happiest part of my life has been spent on board a ship.

How could it be? She watched, observed, reflected, and finally determined that this was not a case of fortitude or of resignation only. A submissive spirit might be patient, a strong understanding would supply resolution, but here was something more; here was that elasticity of mind, that disposition to be comforted, that power of turning readily from evil to good, and of finding employment which carried her out of herself, which was from nature alone. It was the choicest gift of Heaven.

Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial; but generally speaking, it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber: it is selfishness and impatience rather than generosity and fortitude, that one hears of. There is so little real friendship in the world! and unfortunately, there are so many who forget to think seriously till it is almost too late.

Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are essential; but a little learning is by no means a dangerous thing in good company; on the contrary, it will do very well.

Family connexions were always worth preserving, good company always worth seeking.

Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.

Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity.

An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.

A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.

In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.

One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves. [info][add][mail][note]

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.

If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?

To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment

I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.

I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Hope is a waking dream. [info][add][mail][note]

Education is the best provision for old age.

Wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and tribulation, why do you force me to tell you the very thing which it would be most profitable for you not to hear? The very best thing is utterly beyond your reach: not to have been born, not to be, to be nothing. However, the second best thing for you is: to die soon.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Evil brings men together.

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.

To perceive is to suffer.

To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit. [info][add][mail][note] Aristotle

The gods too are fond of a joke.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.

Law is mind without reason.

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.

If some animals are good at hunting and others are suitable for hunting, then the Gods must clearly smile on hunting.

Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.

Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

A friend is a second self.

A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.

You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.

Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.

Nothing happens to any thing which that thing is not made by nature to bear.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: 'I am rising to a man's work.'

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.

Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts, therefore guard accordingly; and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue, and reasonable nature.

Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.

Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.

It is the act of a madman to pursue impossibilities.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

I know why the caged bird sings.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

The needs of society determine its ethics.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.

I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness.

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

Determine to live life with flair and laughter.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.

It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought-- particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.

If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.

I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.

I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.

I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

I am at two with nature.

How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

I am sure the grapes are sour.

I am sure the grapes are sour.

The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes.

People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

Union gives strength.

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.

Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.

The gods help them that help themselves.

Put your shoulder to the wheel.

What a splendid head, yet no brain.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

United we stand, divided we fall.

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

Persuasion is often more effectual than force.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten.

In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest.

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.

Words are the physicians of the mind diseased.

Time as he grows old teaches all things.

For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.

Only when man's life comes to its end in prosperity can one call that man happy.

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

In war, truth is the first casualty.

He who learns must suffer, and, even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

Men want sex. If men ruled the world, they could get sex anywhere, anytime. Restaurants would give you sex instead of breath mints on the way out. Gas stations would give sex with every fill-up. Banks would give sex to anyone who opened a checking account.

You haven’t achieved equality until you’re a legitimate target for humor.

Ask a deeply religious Christian if he'd rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don't seem so bad lately.

Frankly, I’m suspicious of anyone who has a strong opinion on a complicated issue.

The best part about being my age is in knowing how my life worked out. Sure, there's a lot more living to go, but there isn't much doubt that I'll always be the 'Dilbert guy.' Unless I go on a crime spree, in which case I'll be 'that stabbin' Dilbert guy.'

Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant.

'Wrong' is one of those concepts that depends on witnesses.

Decisions are made by people who have time, not people who have talent.

The best way to compile inaccurate information that no one wants is to make it up.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.

The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.

Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.

Needing someone is like needing a parachute. If they are not there the first time you need them, chances are you won't be needing them again. [info][add][mail][note]

Men live in a fantasy world. I know this because I am one, and I actually receive my mail there.

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.

All the perplexities, confusions, and distress in America arise, not from defects in their constitution or confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation.

Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives.

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.

The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all; they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body.

No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it.

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.

But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever