"The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money." — Thomas Jefferson

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.