Yesterday I staked off the ground on the hill for an orchard. I want to get 1,000 apple trees agrowing.

I want to go where I can be of the most service to the general enterprise.

Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron.

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.

I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race.

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.