Extract from Thomas Jefferson to Lafayette, 11 April 1787 [Quote]
I am constantly roving about, to see what I have never seen before and shall never see again
Extract from Thomas Jefferson to Peter Carr, 10 Aug. 1787 [Quote]
5. Traveling. … when men of sober age travel, they gather knowledge which they may apply usefully for their country
Extract from Thomas Jefferson to Mary Jefferson Bolling, 23 July 1787 [Quote]
I find as I grow older, that I love those most whom I loved first.
Extract from Thomas Jefferson to Lafayette, 11 April 1787 [Quote]
I am never satiated with rambling through the fields and farms, examining the culture and cultivators, with a degree of curiosity which makes some take me to be a fool, and others to be much wiser than I am.
Extract from Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson (Randolph), 5 May 1787 [Quote]
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing. And that you may be always doing good, my dear, is the ardent prayer of yours affectionately.
Extract from Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 28 May 1787 [Quote]
A mind always employed is always happy. this is the true secret, the grand recipe for felicity. the idle are the only wretched. In a world which furnishes so many employments which are useful, & so many which are amusing, it is our own fault if we we ever know what ennui is, or if we are ever…
Side Note: Thoughts from Tom which sometimes seem to be overlooked:
Extract from Thomas Jefferson to Edward Rutledge, 14 July 1787 [Quote]
I congratulate you, my dear friend, on the law of your state for suspending the importation of slaves, and for the glory you have justly acquired by endeavoring to prevent it for ever. this abomination must have an end, and there is a superior bench reserved in heaven for those who hasten it.
