Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of families.

Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.

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

We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.

In Macbeth a lady is restrained from the murder of a king by his resemblance of her father as he slept. Should not all men be restrained from acts of violence and even of unkindness against their fellow men by observing in them something which resembles the Savior of the World? If nothing else certainly, a human figure?

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

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.