Accept Praise For Its Worth - Politeness.

Could I Pass A Week In The Insane Ward At Blackwell's Island? I Said I Could And I Would. And I Did.

Even That Was All Consumed After Two Days, And The Patients Had To Try To Choke Down Fresh Fish, Just Boiled In Water, Without Salt, Pepper Or Butter; Mutton, Beef, And Potatoes Without The Faintest Seasoning

I Had Never Been Near Insane Persons Before In My Life, And Had Not The Faintest Idea Of What Their Actions Were Like

All The Asylum Clothing Is Made By The Patients, But Sewing Does Not Employ One's Mind. After Several Months' Confinement The Thoughts Of The Busy World Grow Faint, And All The Poor Prisoners Can Do Is To Sit And Ponder Over Their Hopeless Fate

I Hardly Expected The Grand Jury To Sustain Me, After They Saw Everything Different From What It Had Been While I Was There. Yet They Did, And Their Report To The Court Advises All The Changes Made That I Had Proposed.