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

The laws are the sole guardians of right, and when the magistrate dares not act, every person is insecure.

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.

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

The education of youth, an employment of more consequence than making laws and preaching the gospel, because it lays the foundation on which both law and gospel rest for success.

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

Language, as well as the faculty of speech, was the immediate gift of God.