Great learning and superior abilities...will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.

These are the times when a genius wants to live.

The Character which a youth acquires in the early part of his Life is of great importance towards his future prosperity-one false step may prove irretrievable to his future usefulness.

Great necessities call out great virtues.

Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents.

Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.