Man is not made better by being degraded.
I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow.
Be of good cheer, for sadness cannot heal the national wounds.
Every evil has its good, and every ill an antidote.
[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.
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.