Of the thousands who have paid homage to virtue, barely one has thought to inspect the pedestal on which it stands.

It was in this year, 1828, that the standard of "the Christian Party in Politics" was openly unfurled... This was an evident attempt, through the influence of the clergy over the female mind - until this hour lamentably neglected in the United States - to effect a union of Church and State.

I shall say, that I feel myself virtuous, because my soul is at rest.

Knowledge signifies things known. Where there are no things known, there is no knowledge. Where there are no things to be known, there can be no knowledge. We have observed that every science, that is, every branch of knowledge, is compounded of certain facts, of which our sensations furnish the evidence. Where no such evidence is supplied, we are without data; we are without first premises; and when, without these, we attempt to build up a science, we do as those who raise edifices without foundations. And what do such builders construct? Castles in the air.

The knowledge of one generation is the ignorance of the next.

Equality! Where is it, if not in education? Equal rights! They cannot exist without equality of instruction.

the mode of delivering a truth makes, for the most part, as much impression on the mind of the listener as the truth itself.