“Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast.”

“He who knows best knows how little he knows.”

“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.”

“To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.”

“Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast.”

“Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.”

“One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.”

“My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.”

“I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.”

“In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.”

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

“Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.”

“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

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

“Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.”

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