Dorothea Dix

The rose is the flower and handmaiden of love - the lily, her fair associate, is the emblem of beauty and purity.

Men need knowledge in order to overpower their passions and master their prejudices.

Of my English friends, I should find language too poor to speak the just praise and the excellence which shines in their characters and lives.

I must study alone, as I am condemned to do every thing alone, I believe, in this life.

Happy are those who dwell apart from the harrowing tumults of public life!

If we had only those things which are procured with ease and freedom from danger, we should find the comforts and luxuries, if not many of the necessaries of life, considerably diminished.

Why not, when it can be done without exposure or expense, let me rescue some of America's miserable children from vice and guilt?

The capsules of the geranium furnish admirable barometers. Fasten the beard, when fully ripe, upon a stand, and it will twist itself or untwist, according as the air is moist or dry.

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.

In order to do good, a man must be good; and he will not be good except he have instruction by counsel and by example.

Rules must be established and enforced, and, as numbers are increased in prisons, the necessity for vigilance increases. These rules, let it be understood, may be kindly while firmly enforced. I would never suffer any exhibition of ill-temper or an arbitrary exercise of authority.

We are not sent into this world mainly to enjoy the loveliness therein, nor to sit us down in passive ease; no, we were sent here for action. The soul that seeks to do the will of God with a pure heart, fervently, does not yield to the lethargy of ease.