"I never submitted the whole system of..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“No stile of writing is so delightful as that which is all pith, which never omits a necessary word, nor uses an unnecessary one.”

“Private fortunes, in the present state of our circulation, are at the mercy of those self-created money lenders, and are prostrated by the floods of nominal money with which their avarice deluges us.”

“Where strictness of grammar does not weaken expression, it should be attended to. . . . But where, by small grammatical negligences, the energy of an idea is condensed, or a word stands for a sentence, I hold grammatical rigor in contempt.”

“Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions.”

“It"s good to keep wide-open ears and listen to what everybody else has to say, but when you come to make a decision, you have to weigh all of what you"ve heard on its own, and place it where it belongs, and come to a decision for yourself; you"ll never regret it. But if you form the habit of taking what someone else says about a thing without checking it out for yourself, you"ll find that other people will have you hating your friends and loving your enemies.”

“Say, Not so, and you will out circle the philosophers.”

“The authority of government . . . can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it.”

“A man must choose his own way of life, and…it is only by following out one’s own bent that there can be the really harmonious life.” [In an interview conducted by Bram Stoker]”

“Do not judge the way i show my feelings. It's weird, it's different, but it's true.”