May We Hope That, When We Are

Passion, Intellect, Moral Activity - These Three Have Never Been Satisfied In A Woman. In This Cold And Oppressive Conventional Atmosphere, They Cannot Be Satisfied. To Say More On This Subject Would Be To Enter Into The Whole History Of Society, Of The Present State Of Civilisation.

The Only English Patients I Have Ever Known Refuse Tea, Have Been Typhus Cases; And The First Sign Of Their Getting Better Was Their Craving Again For Tea.

[on Thomas Babington Macaulay:] He Was A Most Disagreeable Companion To My Fancy ... His Conversation Was A Procession Of One.

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.

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.