Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language.

I will answer anything I can with honor, but not about others.

The angels are ministering spirits; they are not governing spirits.

I am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done.

The same eye cannot both look up to heaven and down to earth.

Now let us thank th' eternal power, convinced That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction: That oft the cloud that wraps the present hour Serves but to brighten all our future days.

It is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature.