The true foundation of theology is to ascertain the character of God. It is by the aid of Statistics that law in the social sphere can be ascertained and codified, and certain aspects of the character of God thereby revealed. The study of statistics is thus a religious service.

I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

Let people who have to observe sickness and death look back and try to register in their observation the appearances which have preceded relapse, attack or death, and not assert that there were none, or that there were not the right ones. A want of the habit of observing conditions and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.

It is very well to say "be prudent, be careful, try to know each other." But how are you to know each other?

A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.

The craving for 'the return of the day', which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.