Silas Weir Mitchell

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

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.