"I found, near Boston, in the jails and asylums for the poor, a numerous class brought into unsuitable connection with…"

"The condition of human beings, reduced to the extremest states of degradation and misery, cannot be exhibited in soft…"

"I proceed, gentlemen, briefly to call your attention to the present state of insane persons confined within this Comm…"

"Familiarity with suffering, it is said, blunts the sensibilities, and where neglect once finds a footing other injuri…"

"Prisons are not constructed in view of being converted into county hospitals, and almshouses are not founded as recep…"

"I approach you with confidence as the advocate of those who, alas, cannot plead their own cause — of those in whom th…"

"Of all the calamities to which ‘humanity is subject, none is so dreadful as insanity. Pinching want, hideous deformit…"

"In Kentucky alone, of all the States I have traversed, it has not been my painful experience to find the insane poor,…"

"Are there not many who will read this page, who, like myself, can recall the lone husband and father wearing out a wo…"

"The dread of severe measures, in the treatment of the insane in hospitals is passing away from the minds of all who s…"