It is as absurd to say that [due to motherhood] all women shall be denied the suffrage, as it would be to deny all men the suffrag...e, because some are liable, periodically, to inflammatory rheumatism, delirium tremens, or financial failure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not becom...e picturesque through aerial distance! What hymning of cancerous vices may we not languish over as sublimest art in the safe remoteness of a strange language and artificial phrase! Yet we keep a repugnance to rheumatism and other painful effects when presented in our personal experience.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, with hope & love, & go as brave as the zodiack. In age we put out another sort of per...spiration; gout, fever, rheumatism, caprice, doubt, fretting, and avarice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, and go as brave as the zodiac. In age, we put out another sort of perspiration--out, ...fever, rheumatism, caprice, doubt, fretting, avarice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
While your rheumatism stays with you I naturally feel anxious to hear often. If you should be so unlucky as to become a cripple, i...t will certainly be bad, but you may be sure I shall be still a loving husband, and we shall make the best of it together.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am fifty-one years old today. Gray hairs are getting into my brow; hair grows perceptibly thinner, but no baldness yet. I read w...ithout glasses but my eyes inflame if I read or write many hours by lamplight; more fleshy and full stomached, with shorter breath; a few twinges of rheumatism; a fondness for a nap after dinner; teeth pretty good, but several plugged and a few gone, whiskers rapidly whitening. These are the symptoms of old age. On the other hand, a youthful and elastic spirit; fondness for all young people and their employments and amusements. A fresh, ruddy complexion and considerable physical strength and activity almost persuade me that I am still in my youth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like saying that he had rheumatism or... suffered from diabetes. Madness, in fact, is a medical term that can claim no more notice from the objective critic than he grants the charge of heresy raised by the theologian, or the charge of immorality raised by the police.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thanksgiving Day--A day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to thanking a loving Father that it is not hydrophobia.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Neither lemonade nor anything else can prevent the inroads of old age. At present, I am stoical under its advances, and hope I sha...ll remain so. I have but one prayer at heart; and that is, to have my faculties so far preserved that I can be useful, in some way or other, to the last.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »