"The future of our lives, therefore, depends on employing well the short period of youth. "If at any moment, my dear, you catch yourself in idleness, start from it as you would the precipice of a gulf. "You are not, however, to consider yourself as unemployed while taking exercise. That is necessary for your health, and health is the first of all objects." TITLES OF HONOR AND OFFICE. He wrote to one of his friends concerning this matter as follows: "The Senate and Representatives differed about the title of President. The former wanted to style him 'His Highness, George Washington, President of the United States, and Protector of their Liberties.' I hope the terms of Excellency, Honor, Worship, Esquire, forever disappear from among us. I wish that of Mr. would follow them." THE TERM OF THE PRESIDENCY. Mr. Jefferson was inclined at first to have the President elected for seven years, and be thereafter ineligible. He afterwards modified his views in favor of the present system, allowing only a continuance for eight years. Regarding a third term, he says in his autobiography: "Should a President consent to be a candidate for a third election, I trust he would be rejected on this demonstration of ambitious views." THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS AND LAWYERS. Mr. Jefferson wrote in his autobiography regarding the Continental Congress in 1783: "Our body was little numerous, but very contentious. Day after day was wasted on the most unimportant questions. "If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise, in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing and talk by the hour? "That one hundred and fifty lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected." THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. George Bancroft, in glowing words, speaks of this great creation of the genius of Jefferson: "This immortal State paper, which for its composer was the aurora of enduring fame, was 'the genuine effusion of the soul of the country at that time.' "It was the revelation of its mind, when, in its youth, its enthusiasm, its sublime confronting of danger, it rose to the highest creative powers of which man is capable."--Bancroft's U S., vol. 8, ch. 70. JEFFERSON AND THE MECKLENBURG DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.