"I have often wished that I had more time to devote to my favourite studies."

"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…"

"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 …"

"It is a pity that the practice of inoculation has not been more generally adopted; for if it had, many lives might have been saved."

"The true philosopher is he who is always learning, and who is never ashamed to confess his ignorance."