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.

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.

Even in populous districts, the practice of medicine is a lonely road which winds up-hill all the way and a man may easily go astray and never reach the Delectable Mountains unless he early finds those shepherd guides of whom Bunyan tells, Knowledge, Experience, Watchful, and Sincere.

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

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

The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles.

No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.