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

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.

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

The very first step toward success in any occupation is to become interested in it. Locke put this in a very happy way when he said, give a pupil "a relish of knowledge" and you put life into his work.

He who knows syphilis knows medicine