Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Thomas Jefferson

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson's Guiding Principles:

I. Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

II. Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.

III. Never spend your money before you have it.

IV. Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.

V. Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.

VI. We never repent of having eaten too little.

VII. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.

VIII. How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.

IX. Take things always by their smooth handle.

X. When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred