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

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.

Writing, an expression of freedom, is an unobtrusive reflection of a contemplative soul.

I don't want to be your other half. I believe that one and one make two.

Dreams: the place most of us get what we need.

If you do tomorrow what you did today , you will get tomorrow what you got today

We are already too dependent on gambling revenue. If we continue, we will soon be owned by them.

A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.

The pencil-stroke is like cutting into the heart.

When I was studying at Chicago and at Stanford University, where many many cases of two people observing the same event have a different take on what happened.

A lot of what acting is paying attention.

Yes, the words of the Mother can be heard as clearly as we hear one another. But one requires a fine nerve to hear Mother's words.