Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.

Medicine has made all its progress during the past fifty years. ... How many operations that are now in use were known fifty years ago?-they were not operations, they were executions.

I have been on the verge of being an angel all my life, but it's never happened yet.

To do good is noble. To tell others to do good is even nobler and much less trouble.

The Book of Mormon is chloroform in print

A good legible label is usually worth, for information, a ton of significant attitude and expression in a historical picture.

The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.