...went this evening, spent an hour and took a pipe with Judge Trowbridge, at his lodgings. He says, " you will never get your health, till your mind is...especially with politics, you won't get well." I said, " I don't meddle with politics nor think about them " — " except," says he, " by writing in the papers."...

...intercourse. As Adams was one day taking a pipe with Judge Trowbridge, the judge remarked, Adams relates, " You will never get your health till your mind is at...but especially with politics, you won't get well." Adams said, " I don't meddle with politics nor think about them."—"Except," said the judge, "by writing...

...this evening, spent an hour and took a Cxxvii] pipe with Judge Trowbridge at his lodgings. He says, 1 You will never get your health till your mind is at...— 'except,' said he, 'by writing in the papers.' 'I'll be sworn,' says I, 'I have not wrote one line in a newspaper these two years.'" Thomas Cushing...

...you." 21 Perhaps Judge Edmund Trowbridge was closer to the mark when, on the circuit, he advised Adams, "You will never get your Health, till your Mind is at ease." 22 If that was the standard of healthfulness, however, Adams was condemned to a lifetime of aches and...