... People Have Founded Vast Schemes Upon

Variety Of Form And Brilliancy Of Colour In The Objects Presented To Patients Are Actual Means Of Recovery.

I Cannot Remember The Time When I Have Not Longed For Death. ... For Years And Years I Used To Watch For Death As No Sick Man Ever Watched For The Morning.

Unnecessary Noise Is The Most Cruel Abuse Of Care Which Can Be Inflicted On Either The Sick Or The Well.

Asceticism Is The Trifling Of An Enthusiast With His Power, A Puerile Coquetting With His Selfishness Or His Vanity, In The Absence Of Any Sufficiently Great Object To Employ The First Or Overcome The Last.

Never Underestimate The Healing Effects Of Beauty.