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.

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.

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.

If someone angers you, they control you.

O sleep, O gentle sleep, I thought gratefully, Nature's gentle nurse.

The American doctor possesses a combination of conservatism and... an eagerness to know what it is really all about, in order that he may not be the one left behind if there is something to it.

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