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

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

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 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.

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

Beware of people who call you 'Doc.' They rarely pay their bills.

At the outset do not be worried about this big question-Truth. It is a very simple matter if each one of you starts with the desire to get as much as possible. No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition. In this unsatisfied quest the attitude of mind, the desire, the thirst-a thirst that from the soul must arise!-the fervent longing, are the be-all and the end-all.