The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is one of the commonest observations made at a sick bed.

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

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

Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.

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.

Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.

The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific diseases; there are specific disease conditions.