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.

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

Fed on the dry husks of facts, the human heart has a hidden want which science cannot supply.

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

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.

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.