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

But the reasonableness of this command to obey parents, is clear, and easily understood by children, even when quite young.

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

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

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

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.