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.

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?

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

But the truth is the highest consideration.

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

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

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