In the Mortality Bills, pneumonia is an easy second, to tuberculosis; indeed in many cities the death-rate is now higher and it has become, to use the phrase of Bunyan 'the captain of the men of death.'

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

The clean tongue, the clear head, and the bright eye are birthrights of each day.

To know just what has do be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.

Think not of the amount to be accomplished, the difficulties to be overcome, or the end to be attained, but set earnestly at the little task at your elbow, letting that be sufficient for the day.

Nothing is life is more wonderful than faith.

Shed, as you do your garments, your daily sins, whether of omission or commission, and you will wake a free man, with a new life.