[Why] should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book? Its morals are pure, its examples captivating and noble. The reverence for the Sacred Book that is thus early impressed lasts long; and probably if not impressed in infancy, never takes firm hold of the mind.

A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.

A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom; a republic is a raft which will never sink, but then your feet are always in the water.

A government by the passions of the multitude, or, no less correctly, according to the vices, and ambitions of their leaders is a democracy.

Why then, if these new books for children must be retained, as they will be, should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book ?

I have heard it remarked that men are not to be reasoned out of an opinion they have not reasoned themselves into.

No man can be a sound lawyer in this land who is not well read in the ethics of Moses and the virtues of Jesus.