“ Fatigue is the best pillow. ”

“ There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. ”

“ The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. ”

“ Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. ”

“ Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy. ”

“ When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue. ”

“ The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance. ”

“ We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information. ”

“ All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones. ”

“ The doors of wisdom are never shut. ”