"It is not the business of the law to make men good, but to keep them from being bad."

"Truth, like gold, is not less so for being found in the dirt."

"Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours."

"Parents have a power over their children, to support and govern them for their good, till they are of capacity to shift for themselves."

"Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him."