Silas Weir Mitchell

"I must have told my story ill if to every physician who hears me its illustrations have not the invigorating force of moral tonics."

"Up anchor! Up anchor! Set sail and away! The ventures of dreamland Are thine for a day."

"Death’s but one more to-morrow."

"When youth was lord of my unchallenged fate, And time seemed but the vassal of my will, I entertained certain guests of state— The great of older days."

"The first thing to be done by a biographer in estimating character is to examine the stubs of his victim's cheque-books."

"Where did this filthy thing come from?"