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.

My mother used to say, 'He who angers you, conquers you!' But my mother was a saint.

If someone angers you, they control you.

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

He who angers you conquers you.

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.

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