Dorothea Dix Quotes
Of all the calamities to which humanity is subject, none is so dreadful as insanity. ... All experience shows that insanity seasonably treated is as certainly curable as a cold or a fever.
I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow.
The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible.
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.
I must study alone, as I am condemned to do every thing alone, I believe, in this life.
The olive branch has been consecrated to peace, palm branches to victory, the laurel to conquest and poetry, the myrtle to love and pleasure, the cypress to mourning, and the willow to despondency.
What greater bliss than to look back on days spent in usefulness, in doing good to those around us.
With care and patience, people may accomplish things which, to an indolent person, would appear impossible.
To me, the avocation of a teacher has something elevating and exciting. While surrounded by the young, one may always be doing good.
The duties of a teacher are neither few nor small, but they elevate the mind and give energy to the character.
The rose is the flower and handmaiden of love - the lily, her fair associate, is the emblem of beauty and purity.