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

Now if the study of the Scriptures be necessary to our happiness at any time in our life, the sooner we begin to read them, the more we shall be attached to them.

If we were to remove the Bible from public schools we would be wasting so much time punishing crimes and taking so little pains to prevent them.

A simple democracy is the devil's own government.

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.

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

The art of healing is like an unroofed temple, uncovered at the top and cracked at the foundation.