Let our pupil be taught that he does not belong to himself, but that he is public property ... He must be taught to amass wealth, but it must be only to increase his power of contributing to the wants and demands of the state... [Education] can be done effectually only by the interference and aid of the Legislature.

The business of education has lay[ed] the foundations for nurseries of wise and good men, to adapt our modes of teaching to the peculiar form of our government . . . . He must be taught to love his fellow creatures in every part of the world, but he must cherish with a more intense and peculiar affection the citizens of Pennsylvania and of the United States.

Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.

Terror acts powerfully upon the body, through the medium of the mind, and should be employed in the cure of madness.

Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.

The Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.

Mania's premonitory signs are unusual acts of extravagance, manifested by the purchase of houses, and certain expensive and unnecessary articles of furniture.