A man usually values
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. Dorothea Dix
Dorothea Dix
[To a woman who
[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 not long have the privilege of choice. You will be both dead and out of fashion. Dorothea Dix
But the truth is
But the truth is the highest consideration. Dorothea Dix
The tapestry of history
The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible. Dorothea Dix
in proportion as my
in proportion as my own discomfort has increased, my conviction of necessity to search into the wants of the friendless and afflicted has deepened. If I am cold, they too are cold; if I am weary, they are distressed; if I am alone, they are abandoned. Dorothea Dix
Society, during the last
Society, during the last hundred years, has been alternately perplexed and encouraged, respecting the two great questions -how shall the criminal and pauper be disposed of, in order to reduce crime and reform the criminal on the one hand, and, on the other, to diminish pauperism and restore the pauper to useful citizenship? Dorothea Dix
Man is not made
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 character; and then he is never made radically better for its influence. Dorothea Dix
I think even lying
I think even lying on my bed I can still do something. Dorothea Dix
I have no particular
I have no particular love for my species, but own to an exhaustless fund of compassion Dorothea Dix
Be of good cheer,
Be of good cheer, for sadness cannot heal the national wounds. Dorothea Dix