""To a close shorn sheep, God gives wind by measure."" (George Herbert)

""As to moral courage, he [Napoleon] had very rarely found it, he said, that of two hours past midnight; which is to say, courage unawares.""

It being reckoned that Jesus was actually born in September.

Shadow and substance.

Dr. Green practices the best medicine, but Dr. Zorba and Dr. Casey are rather saturnine on his manner.

The power of personality.

The punctuated forest. Autism and deafness in children.

The whirligig of 3/4 time.

L'amour et la mort.

The threshold of knowledge.

Looking Forward When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great, And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys. Robert Louis Stevenson

Modern medicine.

The key of mourning.

""There is a march of science; but who shall beat the drums for its retreat?"" (Charles Lamb)

The classical Rx, yet Dr. Swanson fails to inspire respect.

A change of management.

From the wreck of my past, which hath perish'd,    Thus much I at least may recall, It hath taught me that which I most cherish'd    Deserved to be dearest of all: In the desert a fountain is springing,    In the wide waste there still is a tree, And a bird in the solitude singing,    Which speaks to my spirit of thee. Lord Byron

""The summer is over...""

The proverb put to the test.

A picture is most eloquent.

The Freudian prescription.

The parabolic return. A scientist from Australia on his last legs.

A romantic ballet.

Working in the hospital milieu.

Cleopatra and the clepsydra.