Silas Weir Mitchell

Silas Weir Mitchell (January 15, 1829 – January 4, 1914) was an American physician and writer.

Death’s but one more to-morrow.

Quotes

• I must have told my story ill if to every physician who hears me its illustrations have not the invigorating force of moral tonics.
  • Transaction of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, 1887, 9: 337, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• Up anchor! Up anchor!
  Set sail and away!
  The ventures of dreamland
  Are thine for a day.
  • Dreamland, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• Death’s but one more to-morrow.
  • Of one who seemed to have failed, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• 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.
  • On a Boy's first Reading of "King Henry V", reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919); comparable to "I am the master of my fate", William Ernest Henley, Invictus (1875).

• 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).

Attributed

• Where did this filthy thing come from?
  • While throwing a book on psychoanalysis into a fire; reported in Ernest Penney Earnest, S. Weir Mitchell, Novelist and Physician (1950), p. 180.

External links

• Silas Weir Mitchell. WhoNamedIt.