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 liberty of the press, trial by jury, the Habeas Corpus Writ, even Magna Carta itself, although justly deemed the paladia of freedom, are all inferior considerations, when compared with the general distribution of real property among every class of people.

The Moral Law is summarily contained in the Decalogue or Ten Commandments; written by the finger of God on two tablets of stone, and delivered to Moses on Mount Sinai.

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

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

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.

A national language is a band of national union.