In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.

The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.

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

In the Mortality Bills, pneumonia is an easy second, to tuberculosis; indeed in many cities the death-rate is now higher and it has become, to use the phrase of Bunyan 'the captain of the men of death.'

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

The practice of medicine will be very much as you make it - to one a worry, a care, a perpetual annoyance; to another, a daily job and a life of as much happiness and usefulness as can well fall to the lot of man, because it is a life of self-sacrifice and of countless opportunities to comfort and help the weak-hearted, and to raise up those that fall.

He who knows syphilis knows medicine