Gentlemen, I have a confession to make. Half of what we have taught you is in error, and furthermore we cannot tell you which half it is

If it were not for the great variability among individuals, medicine might as well be a science, not an art.

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.

A library represents the mind of its collector, fancies and foibles, strengths and weaknesses, prejudices and preferences.

The practice of medicine will be very much as you make it - to one a worry, a care, a perpetual annoyance; to another, a daily job and a life of as much happiness and usefulness as can well fall to the lot of man, because it is a life of self-sacrifice and of countless opportunities to comfort and help the weak-hearted, and to raise up those that fall.

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

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