It is time to think of the introduction of the school of Botany into our Institution.

in America, on the other hand, the society of your husband, the fond cares for the children, the arrangements of the house, the improvements of the grounds fill every moment with a healthy & an useful activity.

you were never more mistaken than in supposing you were too long on the prattle &c. of little Anne. I read it with quite as much pleasure as you write it.

the boys of the rising generation are to be the men of the next, and the sole guardians of the principles we deliver over to them.

the qualifications for self-government in society are not innate. they are the result of habit and long training.

by varying too the articles of culture, we multiply the chances for making something, & disarm the seasons in a proportionable degree of their calamitous effects.

when I shall be again be permitted to withdraw to that scene of quiet of retirement abstracted from which I know no happiness in this world.

no society is so precious as that of one’s own family.

these reveries ... leave me always impressed with the desire of being at home once more, and of exchanging labour, envy, and malice, for ease, domestic occupation, & domestic love & society, where I may once more be happy with you, with mr. Randolph, & dear little Anne, with whom even...

say ‘there were 10. states present. 6. voted unanimously for it, 3. against it, and one was divided: and seven votes being requisite to decide the proposition affirmatively, it was lost. the voice of a single individual of the state which was divided, or of one of those which were of the negative...