Thomas Jefferson

One never really knows how much one has been touched by a place until one has left it.

Thomas Jefferson

To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try.

Thomas Jefferson

When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

Thomas Jefferson

When the subject is strong, simplicity is the only way to treat it.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Thomas Jefferson

A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.

Thomas Jefferson

A man’s management of his own purse speaks volumes about character.

Thomas Jefferson

Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially on politics.

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.

Thomas Jefferson

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

Thomas Jefferson