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.

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

I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race.

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 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.

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

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.