"Communities should be planned with an eye..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“I have so much confidence in the good sense of man, and his qualifications for self-government, that I am never afraid of the issue where reason is left free to exert her force.”

“Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.”

“During the course of administration, and in order to disturb it, the artillery of the press has been levelled against us, charged with whatsoever its licentiousness could devise or dare. These abuses of an institution so important to freedom and science are deeply to be regretted, inasmuch as they tend to lessen its usefulness and to sap its safety.”

“The more we help others, the more we help ourselves”

“Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.”

“I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear.”

“Now stand you on the top of happy hours,And many maiden gardens yet unset,With virtuous wish would bear you living flowers,Much liker than your painted counterfeit:So should the lines of life that life repairWhich this, Time's pencil, or my pupil penNeither in inward worth nor outward fairCan make you live your self in eyes of men.”

“It made her think that it was curious how much nicer a person looked when he smiled. She had not thought of it before.”

“Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.”