In matters of principals, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current. – Thomas Jefferson
The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money. – Thomas Jefferson

In matters of principals, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current. – Thomas Jefferson
The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money. – Thomas Jefferson
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine. – Thomas Jefferson
The second office in the government is honorable and easy the first is but a splendid misery. – Thomas Jefferson
The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The first deals in poetry, the last in cant. He is as much a visionary on one side, as the extreme theoretical democrat is a visionary on the other. – James Fenimore Cooper