More From Thomas Jefferson
- "One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them."
- "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."
- "The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses."
More In Happiness
- "Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class."― Plato
- "Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination."― Immanuel Kant
- "Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it."― William Feather