The great minds, the great works transcend all limitations of time, of language, and of race, and the scholar can never feel initiated into the company of the elect until he can approach all of life's problems from the cosmopolitan standpoint.

We doctors have always been a simple trusting folk. Did we not believe Galen implicitly for 1500 years and Hippocrates for more than 2000?

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.

Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.

The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.

Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise.