It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.
I'd like to live every moment of my life, but not a moment after.
O sleep, O gentle sleep, I thought gratefully, Nature's gentle nurse.
As a girl my temper often got out of bounds. But one day when I became angry at a friend over some trivial matter, my mother said to me, Elizabeth, anyone who angers you conquers you.
His response was remarkable for its irrelevance, if for nothing else.
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.