Quotes on Faculties

I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later - yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?

How many persons condemned to the horrors of solitary confinement have gone mad - simply because the thinking faculties have lain dormant!

There never yet has been a great system sustained by force under which all the best faculties of men have not slowly withered.