"Dependence leads to subservience...." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“Nothing is more incumbent on the old than to know when they should get out of the way and relinquish to younger successors the honors they can no longer earn, and the duties they can no longer perform.”

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

“Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.”

“Every person who invests in well-selected real estate in a growing section of a prosperous community adopts the surest and safest method of becoming independent, for real estate is the basis of wealth.”

“It is man's social nature which distinguishes him from the brute creation. If it is his privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter-dependent. Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.”

“I am lord of myself, accountable to none.”

“LOVE comes of its own free will,it can't be learned in any school!”

“I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded.”

“It is only men who are free, who create the inventions and intellectual works which to us moderns make life worth while.”