Silas Weir Mitchell Quote

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


Quoted by Harvey W. Cushing in The Life of Sir William Osler, Vol. 1, Ch. 21 (1925).


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

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

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

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