"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…"

"My mind is so completely absorbed in this subject, that I can think of nothing else."

"The disease has hitherto been confined to particular districts; and it has been observed, that where the Cow Pox has prevailed, the Small Pox has been much less frequent, and much less fatal."

"I've dispatc'd, my dear madam, this scrap of a letter, To say that Miss — — is very much better. A Regular Doctor no longer she lacks, And therefore I've sent her a couple of Quacks."

"I have often been accused of being too sanguine in my expectations; but time will show whether I am right or wrong."