It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.

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

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

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.

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

The very first step toward success in any occupation is to become interested in it. Locke put this in a very happy way when he said, give a pupil "a relish of knowledge" and you put life into his work.

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.