Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.

A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never!

Few diseases present greater difficulties in the way of diagnosis than malignant endocarditis, difficulties which in many cases are practi- cally insurmountable. It is no disparagement to the many skilled physicians who have put their cases upon record to say that, in fully one-half the diagnosis was made post mortem.

Now of the difficulties bound up with the public in which we doctors work, I hesitate to speak in a mixed audience. Common sense in matters medical is rare, and is usually in inverse ratio to the degree of education.

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

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