“A habilidade mais valiosa é aquela de jamais usar duas palavras quando uma apenas basta.”

“Afinal de contas há coisas que, por mais que se tente usar uma voz agradável e umas palavras dóceis, são inalteráveis. A verdade é o que é! E há verdades que não podem ser adoçadas.”

“Perceiving the order of nature to be that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue, I am willing to hope it may have ordained that the fall of the wicked shall be the rise of the good. To J. Correa de Serra, Monticello, Apr. 19, 1814”

“A Man's management of his own purse speaks volumes about character”

“If all be true that I do think, there are five reasons we should drink. Good friends, good times, or being dry, or lest we should be by and by, or any other reason why”

“Never spend your money before you have it.”

“If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.”