The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution..

I anticipate the Day when to command Respect in the remotest Regions it will be sufficient to say I am an American..

If moral precepts alone could have reformed mankind, the mission of the Son of God into all the world would have been unnecessary. The perfect morali….

[W]here there is no law, there is no liberty; and nothing deserves the name of law but that which is certain and universal in its operation upon all ….

The Bible, when not read in schools, is seldom read in any subsequent period of life...The Bible...should be read in our schools in preference to all….

Dissections daily convince us of our ignorance of the seats of diseases, and cause us to blush at our prescriptions. How often are we disappointed in….

It would seem from this fact, that man is naturally a wild animal, and that when taken from the woods, he is never happy in his natural state, 'till ….

The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it..

Let us show the world that a difference of opinion upon medical subjects is not incompatible with medical friendships; and in so doing, let us throw ….

The American war is over; but this far from being the case with the American revolution. On the contrary, nothing but the first act of the drama is c….

Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep..

Were I disposed to consider the comparative merit of each of them [facts or theories in medical practice], I should derive most of the evils of medic….

Christianity is the only true and perfect religion; and... in proportion as mankind adopt its principles and obey its precepts, they will be wise and….

I grant this mode of secluding boys from the intercourse of private families has a tendency to make them scholars, but our business is to make them m….

In Macbeth a lady is restrained from the murder of a king by his resemblance of her father as he slept. Should not all men be restrained from acts of….

Such is my veneration for every religion that reveals the attributes of the Deity, or a future state of rewards and punishments, that I had rather se….

A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts..

Terror acts powerfully upon the body, through the medium of the mind, and should be employed in the cure of madness..

'Tis done. We have become a nation..

A belief in God's universal love to all his creatures, and that he will finally restore all of them that are miserable to happiness, is a polar truth….

I shall be better satisfied if the same can be said of me as was said of the prophet of old, "That I walked in the fear of the Lord, and begat sons a….