Thomas Jefferson

“I cannot live without books.”

“Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”

“One man with courage is a majority.”

“Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?”

“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.”

“No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.”