We are all dietetic sinners; only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us; the balance goes to waste and loss of energy.

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

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

Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.

The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.

The hardest conviction to get into the mind of a beginner is that the education upon which he is engaged is not a college course, not a medical course, but a life course, for which the work of a few years under teachers is but a preparation.

If it were not for the great variability among individuals, medicine might as well be a science, not an art.