The body is a cell state in which every cell is a citizen. Disease is merely the conflict of the citizens of the state brought about by the action of external forces.

Medical education does not exist to provide students with a way of making a living, but to ensure the health of the community.

Belief has no place as far as science reaches, and may be first permitted to take root where science stops.

Cellular pathology is not an end if one cannot see any alteration in the cell. Chemistry brings the clarification of living processes nearer than does anatomy. Each anatomical change must have been preceded by a chemical one.

The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and the social problems should largely be solved by them.

First, it must be a pleasure to study the human body the most miraculous masterpiece of nature and to learn about the smallest vessel and the smallest fiber. But second and most important, the medical profession gives the opportunity to alleviate the troubles of the body, to ease the pain, to console a person who is in distress, and to lighten the hour of death of many a sufferer.

Laws should be made, not against quacks but against superstition.