Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.

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

Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.

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.

If moral precepts alone could have reformed mankind, the mission of the Son of God into all the world would have been unnecessary. The perfect morality of the gospel rests upon the doctrine which, though often controverted has never been refuted: I mean the vicarious life and death of the Son of God.

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.