Every evil has its good, and every ill an antidote..

I think even lying on my bed I can still do something..

Be of good cheer, for sadness cannot heal the national wounds..

Brains are still unfashionable for women to wear, and it has always been proof of women's superiority that the more intelligent a man is, the more wo….

Of all the calamities to which humanity is subject, none is so dreadful as insanity. ... All experience shows that insanity seasonably treated is as ….

[To a woman who claimed she'd rather be dead than unconfined and unfashionable:] My dear, if you continue to lace as tightly as you do now, you will ….

I proceed, gentlemen, to call your attention to the present state of insane persons confined within the commonwealth; in cages, closets, cellars, sta….

Society, during the last hundred years, has been alternately perplexed and encouraged, respecting the two great questions -how shall the criminal and….

A man usually values that most for which he has labored; he uses that most frugally which he has toiled hour by hour and day by day to acquire..

Man is not made better by being degraded; he is seldom restrained from crime by harsh measures, except the principle of fear predominates in his char….

But the truth is the highest consideration..

The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible..

I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow..

Man is not made better by being degraded..

in proportion as my own discomfort has increased, my conviction of necessity to search into the wants of the friendless and afflicted has deepened. I….

I come to present the strong claims of suffering humanity. I come to place before the Legislature of Massachusetts the condition of the miserable, th….

I have no particular love for my species, but own to an exhaustless fund of compassion.