The voice of a whole people goes up in the silent workings of an institution.

We are not responsible for our feelings, as we are for our principles and actions. ... Our care, then, should be to look to our principles, and to avoid all anxiety about our emotions. Their nature can never be wrong where our course of action is right, and for their degree we are not responsible.

[On being deaf:] We must struggle for whatever may be had, without encroaching on the comfort of others.

Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right, for that shall bring a man peace at the last.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

There is no death to those who perfectly love-only disappearance, which in time may be borne.

This noble word [women], spirit-stirring as it passes over English ears, is in America banished, and 'ladies' and 'females' substituted: the one to English taste mawkish and vulgar; the other indistinctive and gross.