The apartments will be large and convenient; the decoration, both outside and inside, simple, yet regular and elegant.

my books, my family, my friends, & my farm, furnish more than enough to occupy me the remainder of my life, & of that tranquil occupation most analogous to my physical & moral constitution.

I am entirely a farmer, soul and body, never scarcely admitting a sentiment on any other subject

I am now in that tranquil situation which is my delight, with all my family living with me, and forming a delicious society.

I am now enjoying at home peace, peaches, and poplars ... I am become the most industrious & ardent farmer of the canton

a nailery which I have established with my own negro boys now provides completely for the maintenance of my family, as we make from 8. to 10,000 nails a day

this ball of liberty, I believe most piously, is now so well in motion that it will roll round the globe. at least the enlightened part of it, for light & liberty go together.

I, like other people, am so much the dupe of the fondness for the natale solum as to believe seriously there is no quarter of the globe so desireable as America, no state in america so desireable as Virginia, no county in Virginia equal to Albemarle & no spot in Albemarle to compare to...

the more ignorant we become the less value we set on science, & the less inclination we shall have to seek it.

I have imagined and executed a mould-board which may be mathematically demonstrated to be perfect, as far as perfection depends on mathematical principles ... it is on the principle of two wedges combined at right angles, the first in the direct line of the furrow to raise the turf gradually, the...