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

I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism.

'Tis done. We have become a nation.

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

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

Dissections daily convince us of our ignorance of the seats of diseases, and cause us to blush at our prescriptions. How often are we disappointed in our expectation from the most certain and powerful of our remedies, by the negligence or obstinacy of our patients! What mischief have we done under the belief of false facts and false theories! We have assisted in multiplying diseases. We have done more — we have increased their mortality.

There is but one method of rendering a republican form of government durable, and that is by disseminating the seeds of virtue and knowledge through every part of the state by means of proper places and modes of education and this can be done effectively only by the aid of the legislature.