"I shall not attempt to give a detail of all the cases that have come under my observation, but shall select a few of the most striking, and such as will, I trust, be sufficient to convince the candid …"

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

"The most pleasing part of my life has been spent in the pursuit of knowledge."

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

"The joy I felt at the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the world one of its greatest calamities was so excessive that I sometimes found myself in a kind of reverie…"