
“La generosidad no es más que la piedad de los espíritus nobles.”
This house will bear witness to his piety; this town, his birthplace, to his munificence; history to his patriotism; posterity to the depth and compass of his mind.
Epitaph for John Adams (1829), inscribed on one of the portals of the United First Parish Church Unitarian (Church of the Presidents), Quincy
“La generosidad no es más que la piedad de los espíritus nobles.”
“Las ideas muy sencillas sólo están al alcance de mentes complicadas.”
The Thirteenth Tale