"Principle will, in... most... cases open the..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.”

“Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.”

“A system of general instruction, which shall reach every description of our citizens, from the richest to the poorest, as it was the earliest, so will it be the latest, of all the public concerns in which I shall permit myself to take an interest.”

“It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.”

“Those words, temperate and moderate, are words either of political cowardice, or of cunning, or seduction. A thing, moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper, is always a virtue; but moderation in principle, is a species of vice.”

“A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.”

“One piece of good sense would be more memorable than a monument as high as the moon.”

“The feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom.”

“Balance is the perfect state of still water. Let that be our model. It remains quiet within and is not disturbed on the surface.”