Dorothea Dix : (3)

" 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