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

The extraordinary development of modern science may be her undoing. Specialism, now a necessity, has fragmented the specialities themselves in a way that makes the outlook hazardous. The workers lose all sense of proportion in a maze of minutiae.

Beware of people who call you 'Doc.' They rarely pay their bills.

Shed, as you do your garments, your daily sins, whether of omission or commission, and you will wake a free man, with a new life.

Gentlemen, I have a confession to make. Half of what we have taught you is in error, and furthermore we cannot tell you which half it is

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

Every patient you see is a lesson in much more than the malady from which he suffers.