The remarkable education of John Quincy Adams

A legacy more valuable than gold or silver

A great deal of room for me to grow better

Some compensation for me not being with my friends at Braintree

A journal

Almost at the world's end

Promise to produce a worthy character

A son who is the greatest traveller of his age

And of a sister who fulfills my most sanguine expectations

To have a degree at Harvard

Your ever affectionate brother

Your ever affectionate brother

Study is my mistress

While a student in the office of Theophilus Parsons Newburyport

Exposed to the perils of sentiment

I am on the bridge between wisdom and folly

And I, too, am a scribbler

The times change and we change with them

The magnitude of the trust and my own incompetency

The usual mixture between sweet and bitter

The age of innocence and thoughtlessness

Prudence is a sorry matchmaker

Oh my Louisa!

For the friend of your life

Wise and in the best interests of the country

To turn weariness itself into pleasure

A painful retrospective

With no small difficulty

Another feather against a whirlwind

Like a fish out of water

Apostasy

In honorable diplomatic exile.