By Mortifying Vanity We Do Ourselves No

A Girl, If She Has Any Pride, Is So Ashamed Of Having Anything She Wishes To Say Out Of The Hearing Of Her Own Family, She Thinks It Must Be Something So Very Wrong, That It Is Ten To One, If She Have The Opportunity Of Saying It, That She Will Not.

We Know Nothing Of The Principle Of Health, The Positive Of Which Pathology Is The Negative, Except From Observation And Experience. Nothing But Observation And Experience Will Teach Us The Ways To Maintain Or To Bring Back The State Of Health. It Is Often Thought That Medicine Is The Curative Process. It Is No Such Thing; Medicine Is The Surgery Of Functions As Surgery Proper Is That Of Limbs And Organs.

I Never Lose An Opportunity Of Urging A Practical Beginning, However Small, For It Is Wonderful How Often In Such Matters The Mustard-seed Germinates And Roots Itself.

To Understand God's Thoughts, One Must Study Statistics, For These Are The Measure Of His Purpose.

At Present We Live To Impede Each Other's Satisfactions; Competition, Domestic Life, Society, What Is It All But This?