Quotes from Alan Pell Crawford

A remarkably disciplined scholar, Jefferson spent money on books the way less purposeful young men spent it on whiskey or women.

By now, congressmen in their nightcaps carried blankets and pillows into the chamber and slept fitfully between the balloting.

Jefferson loved order, symmetry, and balance, and there was no place on the mountaintop more orderly, symmetrical, and balanced than the garden,

in so many areas of life, Nature had made it agreeable for man to do what was virtuous.

The older he got, the more he appreciated the sublime pleasures of the life of the mind, to which he now sought to devote himself almost exclusively.

he still took the Richmond Enquirer for the advertisements, which he considered "the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.