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

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

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

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

I proceed, gentlemen, to call your attention to the present state of insane persons confined within the commonwealth; in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens; chained, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience.

Man is not made better by being degraded; he is seldom restrained from crime by harsh measures, except the principle of fear predominates in his character; and then he is never made radically better for its influence.

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.