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

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.

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

Be of good cheer, for sadness cannot heal the national wounds.

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

Man is not made better by being degraded.