The evil that has resulted from the error of the schools, in teaching natural philosophy as an accomplishment only, has been that of generating in the pupils a species of atheism. Instead of looking through the works of creation to the Creator himself, they stop short, and employ the knowledge they acquire to create doubts of his existence. They labour with studied ingenuity to ascribe every thing they behold to innate properties of matter, and jump over all the rest by saying, that matter is eternal.

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

That which is now called natural philosophy, embracing the whole circle of science, of which astronomy occupies the chief place, is the study of the works of God, and of the power and wisdom of God in his works, and is the true theology.

The guilt of a government is the crime of a whole country.

Could the straggling thoughts of individuals be collected, they would frequently form materials for wise and able men to improve into useful matter.

My mind is my own church.

The people of America are a people of property; almost every man is a freeholder.