“Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world.”

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those be well-tried before you give them your confidence.

Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections.

Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.

Individuals entering into society, must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest.

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth,

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

A bad war is fought with a good mind.

To persevere in one’s duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none although they give occasion

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.

Heard the bullets whistle, and, believe me, there is something charming in the sound.

Every man thinks God is on his side.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can’t be done.

The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him.

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.

Society’s future will depend on a continuous improvement program for the human character. And what will that future bring? I do not know, but it will be exciting.

Your self-worth is determined by you. You don’t have to depend on someone to tell you who you are.

Everything has a purpose. And that purpose has a story that goes along with it. It just depends on what your passion is.

The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.