Every evil has its good, and every ill an antidote.
Man is not made better by being degraded.
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 think even lying on my bed I can still do something.
Be of good cheer, for sadness cannot heal the national wounds.
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.