The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

I cannot live without books.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

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

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.