It Has Been My Custom

In What Light Soever We Regard The Bible, Whether With Reference To Revelation, To History, Or To Morality, It Is An Invaluable And Inexhaustible Mine Of Knowledge And Virtue.

I Am A Warrior, So That My Son May Be A Merchant, So That His Son May Be A Poet.

My Custom Is To Read Four Or Five Chapters Of The Bible Every Morning Immediately After Rising. It Seems To Me The Most Suitable Manner Of Beginning The Day. It Is An Invaluable And Inexhaustible Mine Of Knowledge And Virtue.

Idleness Is Sweet, And Its Consequences Are Cruel.

We Have No Government Armed With Power Capable Of Contending With Human Passions Unbridled By Morality And Religion. Our Constitution Was Made For A Moral And Religious People... It Is Wholly Inadequate To The Government Of Any Other.