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

I grant this mode of secluding boys from the intercourse of private families has a tendency to make them scholars, but our business is to make them men, citizens, and Christians. The vices of young people are generally learned from each other. The vices of adults seldom infect them. By separating them from each other, therefore, in their hours of relaxation from study, we secure their morals from a principal source of corruption, while we improve their manners by subjecting them to those restraints which the difference of age and sex naturally produce in private families.

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

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

By withholding the knowledge of [the Scriptures] from children, we deprive ourselves of the best means of awakening moral sensibility in their minds.

I anticipate the Day when to command Respect in the remotest Regions it will be sufficient to say I am an American.

Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.