Monday 2 May 2011

Jefferson's Ten Rules




Never put off until to-morrow what you can do to-day.

Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

Never buy what you don't want because it is cheap.

Pride costs more than hunger, thirst, and cold.

We seldom  repent of having eaten too little.

Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.

How much pain the evils have cost us that have never happened.

Take things always by the smooth handle.

When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, count a hundred.


Staircase inside the Library of Congress' Great Hall

Marble figures of small children are carved into the outside of the railings. These children are represented with the tools of their trade,to represent the various occupations, habits and pursuits of "modern life" - a musician with lyre and music book; an electrician holding a telephone; and an entomologist, with specimen box and butterfly net; etc.


Sojourner Truth inside the hall of the Capitol

Big Lady Justice visited the Capitol during late April 2011.
The atmosphere inside Capitol Hill, Senate and House Galleries and Library of Congress is quite unlike the toxic atmosphere at the Law Society of Upper Canada in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Unlike the toxic, negative atmosphere of the LSUC, the Library of Congress was exquisite, inspiring and impressive. While Americans celebrate the accomplishments of activists like Sojourner Truth, the LSUC took away the voting rights of its female licensees under interlocutory suspensions (April 2011 Bencher election).