The record of one's life must needs prove more interesting to him who writes it than to him who reads what has been written.

It is easier to recount grievances and slights than it is to set down a broad redress of such grievances and slights. The reason is that one fears to be thought of as an arrant braggart.

It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

I was wholly unprepared for the extraordinary attitude of the medical world in its readiness to condemn anything that smacked of reform or that ran contrary to approved methods of practice.

A measure of victory has been won, and honors have been bestowed in token thereof. But honours fade or are forgotten, and monuments crumble into dust. It is the battle itself that matters - and the battle must go on.

If someone angers you, they control you.

Fortunately, perhaps, I was completely ignorant of the orthodox theory of the disease polio-myelitis.