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.

Brains are still unfashionable for women to wear, and it has always been proof of women's superiority that the more intelligent a man is, the more women admire him, while the bigger fool a woman is, the more men run after her.

I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow.

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

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

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

Man is not made better by being degraded.