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

Faith is a most precious commodity, without which we should be very badly off.

Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity.

Jaundice is the disease that your friends diagnose.

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

Happiness lies in the absorption in some vocation which satisfies the soul.

The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.