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.

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.

Without the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and civil government.

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

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

Such is my veneration for every religion that reveals the attributes of the Deity, or a future state of rewards and punishments, that I had rather see the opinions of Confucius or Mahomed inculcated upon our youth than see them grow up wholly devoid of a system of religious principles.

Beer is a wholesome liquor.....it abounds with nourishment