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

[To a woman who claimed she'd rather be dead than unconfined and unfashionable:] My dear, if you continue to lace as tightly as you do now, you will not long have the privilege of choice. You will be both dead and out of fashion.

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

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

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.

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.