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

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

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity.

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.

Conservatism and old fogeyism are totally different things; the motto of one is "Prove all things and hold fast that which is good" and of the other "Prove nothing but hold fast that which is old."