Paul C. Nagel

Quotes

• “Adams was in a hurry and ordered his horse drawn carriage to wait for him in front of his house. The horses were spooked...”
• “The author points out that, with life in provincial Washington difficult for those not of independent means, Adams and h...”
• “When John Quincy Adams in the Netherlands was placed with elementary students and belittled because he did not speak Dut...”
• “Adams looks forward to teaching his granddaughters about planting trees, noting that they already show inclination towar...”
• “Adams met with a convention on keeping the Sabbath and found the atmosphere surprisingly similar to that in Congress. Le...”
• “Abigail Adams is willing to risk her son's exposure to danger in Europe so that he can be at his fathers side, at an age...”
• “John Quincy Adams' depression was treated by his aunt with some reliable remedies, first sleep and then compassion. She ...”
• “Rather than pound or a national mind that he believed had been closed by his critics, John Quincy Adams decided to seek ...”
• “The author points out that the moral failure of Abigail Adams' brother focused her on disciplining her children, and her...”
• “John Quincy Adams, denying his sons permission to come home for college holidays for under-performance: "I would feel no...”
• “The life-changing encounters that John Quincy Adams made as an adolescent on his own in Stockholm began with a friendshi...”
• “Because he was suffering doubts about himself and his future, Adams may have felt comfort demeaning the behavior and the...”
• “The aging Adams delightedly describes being surrounded by books on so many different subjects that interested him as "ba...”
• “The president notices that when he takes off his coat to dig, people take more notice of the visual than they did his pr...”
• “I carry too much of the week into the Sabbath , and too little of the Sabbath into the week. John Quincy Adams”
• “No sermon I have heard or read touched my heart with half the force of this puppet show. John Quincy Adams”
• “Since chess was such a painful test of intellect, it affected his emotions too much to be sport.”
• “Most ardent reformers are accompanied by but equal portion of dullness . John Quincy Adams”
• “The world shall retire from me before I shall retire from the world. John Quincy Adams”
• “My countenance in my old-age does injustice to my heart. John Quincy Adams”
• “The two grappled in the quiet of old-fashioned personal diplomacy.”
• “Amusement and annoyance are, perhaps, both forms of denial.”
• “John Quincy Adams strove to escape commonplace thoughts.”
• “Foolish defiance was his lifelong response to being ill.”
• “Ambition distorts even memory itself. John Quincy Adams”
• “Shakespeare's work had a liberating influence.”
• “He must become an apprentice to ordinary life.”
• “He had to pause for his usual misgivings.”