“How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital”

“I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels”

“Hatred is so lasting and stubborn, that reconciliation on a sickbed certainly forebodes death”

“Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman”

“As a remedy against all ills; poverty, sickness, and melancholy only one thing is absolutely necessary; a liking for work”

“To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant”