Now of the difficulties bound up with the public in which we doctors work, I hesitate to speak in a mixed audience. Common sense in matters medical is rare, and is usually in inverse ratio to the degree of education.

In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.

A well-trained, sensible doctor is one of the most valuable assets of a community.

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never!

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

Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert.