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.

A well-trained, sensible doctor is one of the most valuable assets of a community.

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.

A library represents the mind of its collector, fancies and foibles, strengths and weaknesses, prejudices and preferences.

Now of the difficulties bound up with the public in which we doctors work, I hesitate to speak in a mixed audience. Common sense in matters medical is rare, and is usually in inverse ratio to the degree of education.

A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never!

The great majority gave no signs one way or the other; like birth, their death was a sleep and a forgetting.