Paul C. Nagel Quotes

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

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.

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.

He had to pause for his usual misgivings.

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.

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

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.