"The art of life is the art..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“Having labored faithfully in establishing the right of self-government, we see in the rising generation, into whose hands it is passing, that purity of principle and energy of character which will protect and preserve it through their day, and deliver it over to their sons as they receive it from their fathers.”

“Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion has drawn indelible lines of distinction between them.”

“The happiest hours of my life have been spent in the flow of affection among friends.”

“Don't ask for life to be easy. Ask for it to be worth it.”

“No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.”

“Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.”

“People believe a man is in distress because his loved one dies in one day. But his real pain is less futile: it is that he finds out that sadness too does not last. Even pain has no meaning.”

“only an aching heartConceives a changeless work of art.”

“You need to learn to be with the suffering that inevitably arises in your life.”