Alyssa Bohon’s Reviews > John Adams > Status Update

That one had to keep "a good heart,' come what may, was Abigail's lifelong creed. "A merry heart doeth good like a medicine,' she loved to say, quoting Proverbs. "I hate to complain,'' she now wrote. ""No one is without difficulties, whether in high or low life, and every person knows
best where their own shoe pinches."

"He was not so concerned about a President staying long in office, Adams said, as he was about too frequent elections, which often brought out the worst in people and increased the chances of foreign influence."

"You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket." - J.A.

"Let us have ambition enough to keep our simplicity, our frugality, our integrity, and transmit these virtues as the fairest of inheritance to our children."

When Adams and Ben Franklin have to share a bed in an inn and Franklin puts Adams to sleep by expounding his theories on fresh air after they disagree about leaving the window open at night ⭐️