Thomas Jefferson, (1743-1826) Third president of the United States. Quotes

Resort is hard to ridicule only when reason is against us.

When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our minds to meet it with firmness, and accommodate everything to it in the best way practical. This lessons the evil, while fretting and fuming only serve to increase your own torments.

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give happiness.

I do not take a single newspaper nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely happier for it.

I find that the harder I work the more luck I seem to have.

Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

In matter of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.

To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try.

If the condition of man is to be progressively ameliorated .... Education is to be the chief instrument in effecting it.

I prefer to be remembered for what I have done for others, not what others have done for me.