The conduct of an accountable being must be regulated by the operations of its own reason.

The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.

When poverty is more disgraceful than even vice, is not morality cut to the quick?

The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being, that really deserves the name of knowledge.

Age demands respect; youth, love.

To improve both sexes they ought, not only in private families, but in public schools, to be educated together. If marriage be the cement of society, mankind should all be educated after the same model, or the intercourse of the sexes will never deserve the name of fellowship.

The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.