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Danh ngôn của Dorothea Dix (Sứ mệnh: 6)

The duties of a teacher are neither few nor small, but they elevate the mind and give energy to the character.
I must study alone, as I am condemned to do every thing alone, I believe, in this life.
With care and patience, people may accomplish things which, to an indolent person, would appear impossible.
Pleasures take to themselves wings and fly away; true knowledge remains forever.
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.
What an enthusiastic devotion is that which sends a man from the attractions of home, the ties of neighbourhood, the bonds of country, to range plains, valleys, hills, mountains, for a new flower.
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!'