[on Being Deaf:] We Must Struggle For

The Systematic Abuse With Which The Newspapers Of One Side Assail Every Candidate Coming Forward On The Other, Is The Cause Of Many Honorable Men, Who Have A Regard To Their Reputation, Being Deterred From Entering Public Life; And Of The People Being Thus Deprived Of Some Better Servants Than Any They Have.

The Voice Of A Whole People Goes Up In The Silent Workings Of An Institution.

As New Discoveries Are Causing All-penetrating Physical Lights So To Abound As That, As Has Been Said, We Shall Soon Not Know Where In The World To Get Any Darkness, So Our New Facilities For Every Sort Of Communication Work To Reduce Privacy Much Within Its Former Limits.

Everything But Truth Becomes Loathed In A Sick-room ... Let The Nurse Avow That The Medicine Is Nauseous. Let The Physician Declare That The Treatment Will Be Painful. Let Sister, Or Brother, Or Friend, Tell Me That I Must Never Look To Be Well. When The Time Approaches That I Am To Die, Let Me Be Told That I Am To Die, And When.

[i] Wish That The Land-tax Went A Little More According To Situation Than It Does. 'tis Really Ridiculous, How One Has To Pay Five Times As Much As Another, Without Any Reason That Ever I Heard Tell.