Extract from Thomas Jefferson to Francis Eppes, [ca. 1786] [Quote]
Heliotrope.to be sowed in the spring.a delicious flower, but I suspect it must be planted in boxes & kept in the house in the winter. the smell rewards the care.
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Extract from Thomas Jefferson to Francis Eppes, 21 May 1816 [Quote]
while you endeavor, by a good store of learning, to prepare yourself to become an useful and distinguished member of your country you must remember that this can never be, without uniting merit with your learning. honesty, disinterestedness, and good nature are indispensable to procure the esteem...
Extract from Thomas Jefferson to Francis Eppes, 6 Oct. 1820 [Quote]
your Latin & Greek should be kept up assiduously by reading at spare hours: and, discontinuing the desultory reading of the schools. I would advise you to undertake a regular course of history & poetry in both languages. in Greek, go first thro’ the Cyropaedia, and then read Herodotus,...