On learning and study once more, concerning the classics.
“I wish to hear of your beginning upon Sallust who is one of the most polished and perfect of the Roman Historians, every Period of whom, and I had almost said every Syllable and every Letter is worth Studying.
In Company with Sallust, Cicero, Tacitus and Livy, you will learn Wisdom and Virtue.”
John Adams has many good things to say in his letter to John Quincy Adams, as in John Adams on Religion in the United States.