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.

Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron

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

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

The summer of 1830 I... blasted the tunnel through the rock to take water from the dam above the falls for the mill... In 1831 we lowered the tunnel four feet, and built a new dam across the creek.

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 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 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.

The Soul of man is made an article of merchandize by his fellow man and can such a land be happy? No! Happyness does not dwell in any land that is scard by the blighting curse of Slavery.

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

If you're not scared of the dark, it hasn't been dark enough.

Sadly, the President's budget proposal for the upcoming year once again puts cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans over addressing our country's severe fiscal problems.

When I was little, I asked God if I could meet my mom just one more time, and my prayer was answered in 2001. It was weird.

One of the biggest lessons we can learn in life is to do everything possible to reach an accord with the individual we are having trouble with.

The insurance industry communicates through codes and check-off boxes. If there's no check-off box for you, you don't exist.

You are always new to me.

But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it.

Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition.

Let the losers worry about losin.

I hope she misses the cut. She doesn't belong here.