"In a world which furnishes so many..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.”

“The reward of esteem, respect and gratitude [is] due to those who devote their time and efforts to render the youths of every successive age fit governors for the next.”

“Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.”

“My whole being was seeking for something still unknown which might confer meaning upon the banality of life.”

“the time of life is short; To spend that shortness basely were too long.”

“You want to do things you’re passionate about but also are useful to other people.”

“I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.”

“To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.”

“It is a mistake to imagine, that the violent passions only, such as ambition and love, can triumph over the rest. Idleness, languid as it is, often masters them all; she influences all our designs and actions, and insensibly consumes and destroys both passions and virtues.”