Dorothea Dix : (8)

" My wish is to be known only thru my work. " - Dorothea Dix

" Men need knowledge in order to overpower their passions and master their prejudices. " - Dorothea Dix

" Pleasures take to themselves wings and fly away; true knowledge remains forever. " - Dorothea Dix

" I believe the best mode of aiding convicts is so to apportion their tasks in prison as to give to the industrious the opportunity of earning a sum for themselves by ‘over-work.’ 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. " - Dorothea Dix

" I must study alone, as I am condemned to do every thing alone, I believe, in this life. " - Dorothea Dix

" Society during the last hundred years has been alternately perplexed and encouraged respecting the two great questions: how shall the criminal and pauper be disposed of in order to reduce crime and reform the criminal on the one hand and, on the other, to diminish pauperism and restore the pauper to useful citizenship? " - Dorothea Dix

" What greater bliss than to look back on days spent in usefulness, in doing good to those around us. " - Dorothea Dix

" That statesman is indeed happy who can count as his friends the really honest and consistent, the true Patriots, and the men of honorable thought. " - Dorothea Dix