“Persons who have a painful affection in any part of the body, and are in a great measure sensible of the pain, are disordered in intellect.”

“Both sleep and insomnolency, when immoderate, are bad.”

“Persons in whom a crisis takes place pass the night preceding the paroxysm uncomfortably, but the succeeding night generally more comfortably.”

“What remains in diseases after the crisis is apt to produce relapses.”

“When there is a crisis, let your heart pray, but let your hands work.”

“For the briefest moment, Jack's face formed the faintest smile as he considered fear and anxiety, the latter two of which often caused people to forget what truly mattered most.”

“At critical moments the veil between the little-self and the deep self thins and a meaningful self-adjustment becomes possible. If a person does not become paralyzed with fear or frozen in hatred, ...”