Hugh Henry Brackenridge

“Frederick Clarke Prescott (ed.) Prose and Poetry of the Revolution (1925), p. 237”

“David Powell (ed.) The Wisdom of the Novel: A Dictionary of Quotations (1985), p. 400”

“Experience is a great softener of the mind; it gives knowledge.”

“When the patient is dead, it was the disease killed him, not the Doctor. Dead men tell no tales.”

“Gravity is the most practical qualification of the physician.”

“         That Liberty, Which, not the thunder of Bellona's voice, With fleets, and armies, from the British shore, Shall wrest from us.”