“ Your parents regard you with tender affection and anxious hope. Should it please Almighty God to spare your life, you will certainly be an instrument of increasing the great mass of sin and misery, or the small sum of piety and happiness. How desirable to increase the latter! It is at present uncertain what station you will fill, what influence you will possess, or by what circumstances you will be surrounded. Man is born ignorant of every thing. Education is necessary, because you have every thing to learn. ”

“ When you rise in the morning, fail not to acknowledge your dependence on God, whose watchful kindness continually preserves you. Adore him for his greatness and goodness. Confess to him your guilt. Beseech him to bestow pardon and purity of heart, through his Son Jesus Christ. Pray earnestly for an increasing aptitude to learn, and for such continued aid as may enable you to realize the best wishes of your friends. And while you pray for yourself, include your teachers, your schoolfellows, your parents, your friends, and all mankind. ”

“ Thus will useful knowledge be stored up, and correction become unnecessary; your teachers will be well rewarded for their trouble, and your parents for all their cost: from school you will go into the scenes of business, and take your place among those, who, under Providence, are supplying the world with its comforts.
But religion conveys you far beyond these mortal employments: the Almighty Saviour stretches forth his hand to lead you into eternity. ”

“ You have also as much need of a Sanctifier as of a Redeemer, for none but the pure in heart shall see God. The Sanctifier is the Holy Spirit of God. To be happy in Heaven, you must have a heavenly disposition. “Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people.” It is not long since you were born into the world ”

“ He speaks of the love of God, the life of faith, the joys of heaven; when it is needful, he reproves; nor does he fail to encourage; he administers truth, and, superior to all earthly teachers, he opens the understanding that it may receive it. ”

“ Impelled by duty to God and to you, your parents have placed you under the care of those whose instructions and admonitions, if rightly improved, will make you respectable and happy. Next to Christian ministers, your teachers and governors sustain, in various respects, the highest and most important office in the world. ”

“ While in the school, maintain silent attention. Let the foundation of your grammar-learning be laid deep: you are not to think it unreasonable that you are required to learn the same rules once and again. ”

“ The profane youth, listening to the advice of evil counsellors, and indulging the worst propensities of his nature, plunges at once into pollution and misery. Health and peace, reputation and usefulness, are soon lost, but not easily regained. ”

“ But my principal object is, to entreat your attention to the important concerns of the everlasting world. You have read in your Bible, that Adam, the first of our race, was created in the image of God, a perfectly holy, just, and good man ”

“ If any of your schoolfellows discover bad dispositions, prudently avoid them. Attach yourself to those chiefly who are diligent, thoughtful, and amiable. Behave always in the most respectful manner to your teachers, and to all that occasionally visit you. ”