Yesterday I staked off the ground on the hill for an orchard. I want to get 1000 apple trees agrowing.

Yesterday I staked off the ground on the hill for an orchard. I want to get 1000 apple trees agrowing.

As for the Pope, I am too old to be frightened by his shadow, and am quite sure his shadow or Substance will do less harm to the liberties of my country than will a party, who seek to acquire political power by exciting religious bigotry in the minds of their duped followers.

I have always considered that choosing a companion for life was a very important affair and that my happyness or misery in this life depended on the choice.

There is a great reform required in the education and habits of females.

My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children is a laborious one and a responsible one.

In 1844, there was a balance of perhaps of a couple of thousand dollars on the cr side.