Every child in America should be acquainted with his own country. He should read books that furnish him with ideas that will be useful to him in life and practice. As soon as he opens his lips, he should rehearse the history of his own country.

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

The Bible was America's basic textbook in all fields.

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.

The minds of youth are perpetually led to the history of Greece and Rime or to Great Britain; Boys are constantly repeating the declamations of Demosthenes and Cicero, or debates upon some political question in the British Parliament.

The man who has half a million of dollars in property... has a much higher interest in the government, than the man who has little or no property.

Unaffected modesty is the sweetest charm of female excellence, the richest gem in the diadem of her honor.