“Never buy a what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.”
— Thomas Jefferson Primary source“Never spend your money before you have it.”
— Thomas Jefferson Primary source“Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.”
— Thomas Jefferson Primary source“When angry, count ten, before you speak; if very angry, an hundred.”
— Thomas Jefferson Primary source“Take things always by their smooth handle.”
— Thomas Jefferson Primary source“We never repent of having eaten too little.”
— Thomas Jefferson Primary source“How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened!”
— Thomas Jefferson Primary source“Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.”
— Thomas Jefferson Primary source“Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.”
— Thomas Jefferson Primary source• Title: Letter to Thomas Jefferson Smith
• Author: Thomas Jefferson
• Type: Letter
• Publisher: n/a
• Publication time: 1825
• Publication place: Monticello, Virginia, US
• Link: https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/98-01-02-4987