Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American novelist Silas Weir Mitchell.
Last updated on November 23, 2024.
Silas Weir Mitchell was an American physician, scientist, novelist, and poet. He is considered the father of medical neurology, and he discovered causalgia and erythromelalgia, and pioneered the rest cure.
He alone has lost the art to live who cannot win new friends.
There are those who suffer and grow strong; there are those who suffer and grow weak. This mystery of pain is still for me the saddest of earth's disabilities.
Medicine is only palliative. For behind disease lies the cause and this cause NO DRUG can reach.
Up anchor! Up anchor!
Set sail and away!
The ventures of dreamland
Are thine for a day.
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.