The rose is the flower and handmaiden of love - the lily, her fair associate, is the emblem of beauty and purity.
From Dorothea Dix
My wish is to be known only thru my work.
Time passed solely in the pursuit of pleasure leaves no solid enjoyment for the future; but from the hours you spend in reading and studying useful books, you will gather a golden harvest in future years.
The olive branch has been consecrated to peace, palm branches to victory, the laurel to conquest and poetry, the myrtle to love and pleasure, the cypress to mourning, and the willow to despondency.
Nothing seems to me so likely to make people unhappy in themselves and at variance with others as the habit of killing time.
No blessing, no good, can follow in the path trodden by slavery.
Why not, when it can be done without exposure or expense, let me rescue some of America's miserable children from vice and guilt?
Your minds may now be likened to a garden, which will, if neglected, yield only weeds and thistles; but, if cultivated, will produce the most beautiful flowers, and the most delicious fruits.
In order to do good, a man must be good; and he will not be good except he have instruction by counsel and by example.
Steady, firm, and kind government of prisoners is the truest humanity and the best exercise of duty. It is with convicts as with children: unseasonable indulgence, indiscreetly granted, leads to mischiefs which we may deplore but cannot repair.
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