"How wonderful that this horrid pestilence should at this time even have an existence in our island . . . A Physician from Copenhagen call'd on me today, and express'd his astonishment at an opposition…"

"The greatest happiness consists in doing good to others."

"It is a fortunate circumstance, that the Cow Pox is not infectious; for if it were, it would be a source of great alarm."

"The most beautiful part of the human frame is the eye; and yet it is the most liable to disease."

"It is a fact well known to many, that persons who have had the Cow Pox, are for ever after secure from the infection of the Small Pox."