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

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

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

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

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.

Conservatism and old fogeyism are totally different things; the motto of one is "Prove all things and hold fast that which is good" and of the other "Prove nothing but hold fast that which is old."

What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?