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 Bible was America's basic textbook in all fields.

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.

A pure democracy is generally a very bad government, It is often the most tyrannical government on earth; for a multitude is often rash, and will not hear reason.

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.

Let us reject the spirit of making proselytes to particular creeds by any other means than persuasion.

To exterminate our popular vices is a work of far more importance to the character and happiness of our citizens than any other improvements in our system of education.