"So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“Without health there is no happiness. An attention to health, then, should take the place of every other object.”

“There is no act, however virtuous, for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive.”

“The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors.”

“Covetousness is ever attended with solicitude and anxiety.”

“Take it from Richard, poor and lame, What's begun in anger ends in shame.”

“I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.”

“James Allen says 'We curse the effect and nourish the cause.' The guy puts sand in his shoes and he can hardly walk and you ask why would you do that? Why would we wish for it to change, hope for it to change, but all the while resisting change?”

“So the case stands, and under all the passion of the parties and the cries of battle lie the two chief moving causes of the struggle. Union means so many millions a year lost to the South; secession means the loss of the same millions to the North. The love of money is the root of this as of many many other evils ... the quarrel between North and South is, as it stands, solely a fiscal quarrel.”

“Thought is the fountain of action, life and manifestation; make the fountain pure, and all will be pure.”