Authors
Topics
Lists
Pictures
Resources
More about Silas Weir Mitchell
Silas Weir Mitchell Quotes
8 Sourced Quotes
Source
Report...
Alas, how can we help but mourn When hero bosoms yield their breath! A century itself may bear But once the flower of such a death.
Silas Weir Mitchell
Source
Report...
The first thing to be done by a biographer in estimating character is to examine the stubs of his victim's cheque-books.
Silas Weir Mitchell
Source
Report...
Up anchor! Up anchor!
Set sail and away!
The ventures of dreamland
Are thine for a day.
Silas Weir Mitchell
Source
Report...
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.
Silas Weir Mitchell
Source
Report...
I must have told my story ill if to every physician who hears me its illustrations have not the invigorating force of moral tonics.
Silas Weir Mitchell
Source
Report...
He alone has lost the art to live who cannot win new friends.
Silas Weir Mitchell
Source
Report...
The success of a discovery depends upon the time of its appearance.
Silas Weir Mitchell
Source
Report...
In science, all sorts of things present themselves and you watch them; the facts are tested, accepted, rejected, or set aside, and at last experiments are made following some apparently fruitful ideas.
Silas Weir Mitchell
Quote of the day
It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot.
Joseph Brodsky
Silas Weir Mitchell
Creative Commons
Born:
February 15, 1829
Died:
January 4, 1914
(aged 84)
Bio:
Silas Weir Mitchell was an American physician and writer known for his discovery of causalgia and erythromelalgia.
Known for:
Grimm
The Whole Ten Yards
Rat Race
A Fork in the Road
Quicksilver Highway
Silas Weir Mitchell on Wikipedia
Silas Weir Mitchell works on Gutenberg Project
Silas Weir Mitchell works on Wikisource
Suggest an edit or a new quote
American Physician Quotes
Physician Quotes
19th-century Physician Quotes
Featured Authors
Lists
Predictions that didn't happen
If it's on the Internet it must be true
Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)
Picture Quotes
Confucius
Philip James Bailey
Eleanor Roosevelt
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Popular Topics
life
love
nature
time
god
power
human
mind
work
art
heart
thought
men
day
×
Lib Quotes
