diseases, as all experience shows, are adjectives, not noun substantives.

To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.

What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and acute, cold and heat and famine. They are intoxication, drunken brutality, demoralization and disorder on the part of the inferior... jealousies, meanness, indifference, selfish brutality on the part of the superior.

I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.

Religion was important to me. My family and I were very religious. I acctualy believe the work I did was a calling from God himself.

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.

The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.