Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.

Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.

If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling.

Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead.

Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.

Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away.

Effectiveness of assertion is the alpha and omega of style.