Everything is useful which contributes to fix the principles and practices of virtue.

It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate.

Private fortunes, in the present state of our circulation, are at the mercy of those self-created money lenders, and are prostrated by the floods of nominal money with which their avarice deluges us.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future.

The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend to all the happiness of man.

We have solved, by fair experiment, the great and interesting question whether freedom of religion is compatible with order in government and obedience to the laws. And we have experienced the quiet as well as the comfort which results from leaving every one to profess freely and openly those principles of religion which are the inductions of his own reason and the serious convictions of his own inquiries.