Rather than pound or a national mind that he believed had been closed by his critics, John Quincy Adams decided to seek a place in the is the esteem of future generations.

The author points out that the moral failure of Abigail Adams' brother focused her on disciplining her children, and herself, so that they did not come to the same end.

No sermon I have heard or read touched my heart with half the force of this puppet show. John Quincy Adams

Shakespeare's work had a liberating influence.

John Quincy Adams strove to escape commonplace thoughts.

The two grappled in the quiet of old-fashioned personal diplomacy.

John Quincy Adams' depression was treated by his aunt with some reliable remedies, first sleep and then compassion. She said, " He was half cared for by having someone to care for him.

The president notices that when he takes off his coat to dig, people take more notice of the visual than they did his preceding remarks.

He must become an apprentice to ordinary life.

I carry too much of the week into the Sabbath, and too little of the Sabbath into the week. John Quincy Adams

Our religion was the religion of a Book. Man must be educated on Earth for Heaven. John Quincy Adams

A forgiven Christian is a forgiving Christian.

I could practically hear the unspoken ‘good girl’ accompanied by a pat and scratch behind my ears like I was his obedient pet.

Oh, do not read history, for that I know must be false.

I always think the everyday is more relevant than anything too grand because we all have to deal with it.

Some types of nothing are more fun than other types of nothing.

Smaller societies must prepare the way for greater.

It is not often that nations learn from the past,even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.

Software breaks before it bends, so it demands perfection in a universe that prefers statistics.

When a major airline goes on a route that a new entrant has gone into, reduces fares, increases capacity, and then when the new entrant goes off, they leave the route, that's not competition.

The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity.