do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.

There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.

do not engage in any paper wars. You will convince nobody and arrive at no satisfaction yourself.

[On Thomas Babington Macaulay:] He was a most disagreeable companion to my fancy ... His conversation was a procession of one.

For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that without it we shall be useless with all our devotion.

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.

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