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" Those who do wrong very often think others are censuring them, when they are not even thought of. "

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" 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? "

" 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. "

" The rose is the flower and handmaiden of love - the lily, her fair associate, is the emblem of beauty and purity. "

" I was early taught by sorrow to shed tears, and now when sudden joy lights up, or any unexpected sorrow strikes my heart, I find it difficult to repress the full and swelling tide of feeling. "

" I worship talents almost. I sinfully dare mourn that I possess them not. "

" 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. "

" I have little taste for fashionable dissipations, cards, and dancing; the theatre and tea parties are my aversion, and I look with little envy on those who find their enjoyment in such transitory delights, if delights they may be called. "

" If we had only those things which are procured with ease and freedom from danger, we should find the comforts and luxuries, if not many of the necessaries of life, considerably diminished. "

" The duties of a teacher are neither few nor small, but they elevate the mind and give energy to the character. "

" Indulged habits of dependence create habits of indolence, and indolence opens the portal to petty errors, to many degrading habits, and to vice and crime with their attendant train of miseries. "

" The lovely daisy, so justly celebrated by European poets, is not a native of our soil; we know it well, however, by cultivation in our gardens and green houses; besides, we are disposed to remember it for the sake of those who have sung its praises in immortal verse. "

" My happiest hours are spent in school, surrounded by those I hope to benefit. "

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

" I have had so much at heart. Defeated, not conquered; disappointed, not discouraged. I have but to be more energetic and more faithful in the difficult and painful vocation to which my life is devoted. "

" With care and patience, people may accomplish things which, to an indolent person, would appear impossible. "

" I would be cautious in embracing or rejecting doctrines. Had they been essential to our salvation, they would have been more explicitly declared in the Gospels, where we are so well taught the practice of every good word and work. "

" Happy are those who dwell apart from the harrowing tumults of public life! "

" They say, 'Nothing can be done here!' I reply, 'I know no such word in the vocabulary I adopt!' "

" The fact is that, in all prisons everywhere, cruelties on the one hand and injudicious laxity of discipline on the other have at times appeared and will, at intervals, be renewed except the most vigilant oversight is maintained. "

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

" To me, the avocation of a teacher has something elevating and exciting. While surrounded by the young, one may always be doing good. "

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

" Life is not to be expended in vain regrets. No day, no hour, comes but brings in its train work to be performed for some useful end - the suffering to be comforted, the wandering led home, the sinner reclaimed. Oh! How can any fold the hands to rest and say to the spirit, 'Take thine ease, for all is well!' "

" I shall try and effect all that is before me to perform; and God, I think, will surely give me strength for His work so long as He directs my line of duty. "

" 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. "

" I may be too craving of that rich gift, the power of sharing other minds. I have drunk deeply, long, and oh! how blissfully at this fountain in a foreign clime. Hearts met hearts, minds joined with minds; and what were the secondary trials of pain to the enfeebled, suffering body when daily was administered the soul's medicine and food! "

" 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. "

" Nothing seems to me so likely to make people unhappy in themselves and at variance with others as the habit of killing time. "

" Think how slow would be your progress in learning without printed books: you could study only manuscripts, and those necessarily must be very few in number. Learn from this to value your books, and always handle them with care. "