Diseases, As All Experience Shows, Are Adjectives,

Women Never Have A Half-hour In All Their Lives (excepting Before Or After Anybody Is Up In The House) That They Can Call Their Own, Without Fear Of Offending Or Of Hurting Someone. Why Do People Sit Up So Late, Or, More Rarely, Get Up So Early? Not Because The Day Is Not Long Enough, But Because They Have 'no Time In The Day To Themselves.' 1852

A Human Being Does Not Cease To Exist At Death. It Is Change, Not Destruction, Which Takes Place.

The Symptoms Or The Sufferings Generally Considered To Be Inevitable And Incident To The Disease Are Very Often Not Symptoms Of The Disease At All, But Of Something Quite Different-of The Want Of Fresh Air, Or Of Light, Or Of Warmth, Or Of Quiet, Or Of Cleanliness, Or Of Punctuality And Care In The Administration Of Diet, Of Each Or Of All Of These.

My Family Tried To Educate Me In The Way They Thought A Young Woman Should Be. But I Wanted To Learn About Mathmatics. I Must Have Gotten That From My Father, He Was A Master Of Math And Science, And I Always Liked That Sort Of Thing, Too. Of Course My Mother And Father Did Not Agree With Me On Becoming More Educated In Mathmatics, But I Was Persistent And Eventualy They Gave In And I Was Taught By A Wonderful Teacher.

Life Is A Hard Fight, A Struggle, A Wrestling With The Principle Of Evil, Hand To Hand, Foot To Foot. Every Inch Of The Way Is Disputed. The Night Is Given Us To Take Breath, To Pray, To Drink Deep At The Fountain Of Power. The Day, To Use The Strength Which Has Been Given Us, To Go Forth To Work With It Till The Evening.