A national language is a band of national union.

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

The education of youth should be watched with the most scrupulous attention. [I]t is much easier to introduce and establish an effectual system ... than to correct by penal statutes the ill effects of a bad system. ... The education of youth ... lays the foundations on which both law and gospel rest for success.

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.

The heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.

The ecclesiastical establishments of Europe which serve to support tyrannical governments are not the Christian religion but abuses and corruptions of it.

The virtues of men are of more consequence to society than their abilities, and for this reason, the heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.