Were I disposed to consider the comparative merit of each of them [facts or theories in medical practice], I should derive most of the evils of medicine from supposed facts, and ascribe all the remedies which have been uniformly and extensively useful, to such theories as are true. Facts are combined and rendered useful only by means of theories, and the more disposed men are to reason, the more minute and extensive they become in their observations

Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of families.

The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.

Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.

Let the children...be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion. This is the most essential part of education.

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

Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.