Before turning to those moral and mental aspects of the matter which present the greatest difficulties, let the inquirer begin by mastering more elementary problems.

When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.

His neighbor is a tooth-drawer. That bag at his girdle is full of the teeth that he drew at Winchester fair. I warrant that there are more sound ones than sorry, for he is quick at his work and a trifle dim in the eye.

I feel that there is reason lurking in you somewhere, so we will patiently grope round for it.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

Even the best of us are thrown off some- times.

A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.