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.

That man can interrogate as well as observe nature was a lesson slowly learned in his evolution.

Without faith a man can do nothing; with it all things are possible.

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.

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

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

He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.