It matters little to me whether my pupil be designed for the army, the pulpit, or the bar.

Nature has destined us to the offices of human life antecedent to our destination concerning society.

To live is the profession I would teach him.

When I have done with him, it is true he will be neither a soldier, a lawyer, nor a divine.

_Let him first be a man_; Fortune may remove him from one rank to another as she pleases, he will be always found in his place." A little, short doctor of divinity in a large Baptist convention stood on a step and said he thanked God he was a Baptist.