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

It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.

The clean tongue, the clear head, and the bright eye are birthrights of each day.

There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs.

The great minds, the great works transcend all limitations of time, of language, and of race, and the scholar can never feel initiated into the company of the elect until he can approach all of life's problems from the cosmopolitan standpoint.