2,194 Quotes by Thomas Jefferson

Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.

It is more honorable to repair a wrong than to persist in it.

It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the hour.

A walk in Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.Â

How much pain have cost us the evils that have never happened.

To be really useful, we must keep pace with the state of society, and not dishearten it by attempts at what its population, means, or occupations will fail in attempting.

In every country where man is free to think & to speak, differences of opinion will arise from difference of perception, & the imperfection of reason.

France is every man's second country.