We set the treatment of bodies so high above the treatment of souls, that the physician occupies a higher place in society than the school-master.

Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.

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.

A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.

It is the unqualified result of all my experience with the sick that, second only to their need of fresh air, is their need of light; that, after a close room, what hurts them most is a dark room and that it is not only light but direct sunlight they want.

I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.

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.