Happiness lies in the absorption in some vocation which satisfies the soul.

The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.

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

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

Faith is a most precious commodity, without which we should be very badly off.

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.

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.