Best 28 quotes of Paul C. Nagel on MyQuotes

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 where he can "most benefit from his father's example and precepts.

Adams looks forward to teaching his granddaughters about planting trees, noting that they already show inclination toward this and need only be encouraged in the naturalist pursuits he has found so healthy.

Adams was in a hurry and ordered his horse drawn carriage to wait for him in front of his house. The horses were spooked before he got in the carriage, and the carriage was destroyed in an accident. Pondering what could have happened to him , Adams retreated to Psalm 20's injunctions against trusting in chariots and horses.

Ambition distorts even memory itself. John Quincy Adams

Amusement and annoyance are, perhaps, both forms of denial.

Because he was suffering doubts about himself and his future, Adams may have felt comfort demeaning the behavior and the character of women.

He had to pause for his usual misgivings.

Foolish defiance was his lifelong response to being ill.

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

It is the doom of the Christian church to be always distracted with controversy. John Quincy Adams

I was born for a controversial world, and I cannot escape my destiny. John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams, denying his sons permission to come home for college holidays for under-performance: "I would feel nothing but sorrow and shame at your presence.

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.

Most ardent reformers are accompanied by but equal portion of dullness . John Quincy Adams

My countenance in my old-age does injustice to my heart. John Quincy Adams

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

Only an Adams could convert naïveté into bravado.

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

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.

Shakespeare's work had a liberating influence.

Since chess was such a painful test of intellect, it affected his emotions too much to be sport.

The aging Adams delightedly describes being surrounded by books on so many different subjects that interested him as "baits on fishhooks".

The life-changing encounters that John Quincy Adams made as an adolescent on his own in Stockholm began with a friendship he struck up at a bookstore.

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.

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

The world shall retire from me before I shall retire from the world. John Quincy Adams

When John Quincy Adams in the Netherlands was placed with elementary students and belittled because he did not speak Dutch, either the author or John Adams accuses school authorities of "littleness of soul".