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.

I want to go where I can be of the most service to the general enterprise.

I have a fine lot of telescopes. I have one with which I can see the Mountains in the Moon.

Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron

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

There is nothing I have to reflect on that gives me more satisfaction than the fact that my life is insured for the benefit of my Dear Wife and children.

I read the book with interest, but when Jackson was a candidate in 1828 for the Presidency, I opposed him and voted for Adams. I favored a protective tariff.