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

The night is given to us to take breath, to pray, to drink deep at the fountain of power.

The symptoms or the sufferings generally considered to be inevitable and incident to the disease are very often not symptoms of the disease at all, but of something quite different-of the want of fresh air, or of light, or of warmth, or of quiet, or of cleanliness, or of punctuality and care in the administration of diet, of each or of all of these.

At present we live to impede each other's satisfactions; competition, domestic life, society, what is it all but this?

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.

A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.

People say the effect is only on the mind. It is no such thing. The effect is on the body, too. Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect. Variety of form and brilliancy of color in the objects presented to patients, are actual means of recovery.