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

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.

A library represents the mind of its collector, fancies and foibles, strengths and weaknesses, prejudices and preferences.

The great majority gave no signs one way or the other; like birth, their death was a sleep and a forgetting.

In the Mortality Bills, pneumonia is an easy second, to tuberculosis; indeed in many cities the death-rate is now higher and it has become, to use the phrase of Bunyan 'the captain of the men of death.'

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

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