Thomas Jefferson on the Fortune of Youth

“The fortune or our lives therefore depends on employing well the short period of our youth.”

Thomas Jefferson in a letter to his daughter, Martha (1787)

Excerpted from: Howe, Randy, ed. The Quotable Teacher. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2003.

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