My health is so often impaired that I begin to be as weary of it as mending old lace; when it is patched in one place, it breaks out in another.

Civility costs nothing, and buys everything.

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.

People wish their enemies dead - but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked.

There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.

The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.

There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.

Solitude begets whimsies.

People in big empty places are likely to behave very much as the gods did on Olympus.

My goal was to make New Jersey's state government a model for all other states to emulate, hopefully thereby to stem, or at least slow down, the flow of power to the federal government.

I want to commit a crime during a reenactment, and turn it into an enactment.

I'm always surprised that I'm still around funk and that people are still into it.

I have made education a top priority of this Administration because when we get it right, when every child learns, America will be a more hopeful place.

You must always be yourself, and do things at your own pace. Someday, you'll catch up.

I'm halfway intelligent. I'll figure something out.

When everything goes without a hitch, where's the challenge, the opportunity to find out what you're made of?

If you label it this, then it can't be that.