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.

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.

Without Virtue there can be no liberty

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

I have alternately been called an Aristocrat and a Democrat. I am neither. I am a Christocrat.

It would seem from this fact, that man is naturally a wild animal, and that when taken from the woods, he is never happy in his natural state, 'till he returns to them again.

While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum , or in disputes about Hebrew points, Greek particles, or the accent and quantity of the Roman language, the youth of America will be employed in acquiring those branches of knowledge which increase the conveniences of life.