I shall be well enough when I get to Kentucky or Alabama. The tonic I need is the tonic of opposition. That always sets me on my feet. Dorothea Dix Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Dorothea Dix Read Quote
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. Dorothea Dix Read Quote
There is, I think, great difficulty in writing of one’s self: it is almost impossible to present subjects where the chief actor must be conspicuous and not seem to be, or really be, egotistical. Dorothea Dix Read Quote
To me, the avocation of a teacher has something elevating and exciting. While surrounded by the young, one may always be doing good. Dorothea Dix Read Quote
Nothing seems to me so likely to make people unhappy in themselves and at variance with others as the habit of killing time. Dorothea Dix Read Quote
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. Dorothea Dix Read Quote
By all means, have you give great attention to your arithmetic, as its advantages are so many and important. Dorothea Dix Read Quote
