Table of Contents

  • Preface
  • Faith
  • Happiness
  • Aspiration
  • Fitness
  • Cheerfulness
  • Gratitude
  • Sincerity
  • Not Thirsting for Gain
  • Seeing the Good
  • Jesus
  • Nature's Beauty
  • Humility
  • Sacrifice
  • Being True to Yourself
  • Self-Perfection
  • Doing What is Right
  • Simplicity
  • Living in the Present
  • Enthusiasm
  • Patriotism
  • Liberty
  • Dreaming the Impossible
  • Oneness
  • Hope
  • Life Acceptance
  • Self-Giving
  • Forgiveness
  • Love
  • Patience
  • Self-Discipline
  • Not Fearing Loss
  • Silence
  • Truth Seeking
  • Peace Prayer
  • Notes

“Seamlessly weaving Jefferson ’s wisdom and lively moral imagination into discrete and timeless meditations, this far from common ‘commonplace book’ brings Jefferson’s thought alive again for a new generation of Americans.”
- Forrest Church
Author of The American Creed
Editor of The Jefferson Bible