I desire no other epitaph - no hurry about it, I may say - than the statement that I taught medical students in the wards, as I regard this as by far the most useful and important work I have been called upon to do.

The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

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

The hardest conviction to get into the mind of a beginner is that the education upon which he is engaged is not a college course, not a medical course, but a life course, for which the work of a few years under teachers is but a preparation.

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

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

Patients rarely die of the disease from which they suffer. Secondary or terminal infections are the real cause of death.