When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}

The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.

Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents.

Great learning and superior abilities...will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.

These are the times when a genius wants to live.

Great necessities call out great virtues.

What is it that affectionate parents require of their Children; for all their care, anxiety, and toil on their accounts? Only that they would be wise and virtuous, Benevolent and kind.