Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground

In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate-look to his character.

Discipline our youth in early life in sound maxims of moral, political, and religious duties.

The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scripture ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws.

The Bible is the chief moral cause of all that is good and the best corrector of all that is evil in human society; the best book for regulating the temporal [secular] concerns of men.

Nothing has a greater tendency to lessen the reverence which mankind ought to have for the Supreme Being, than a careless repetition of his name upon every trifling occasion . . . . To prevent this profanation, such passages are selected from scripture, as contain some important precepts of morality and religion, in which that sacred name is seldom mentioned. Let sacred things be appropriated to sacred purposes.

A national language is a band of national union.