The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.

Personally, I do not see in Canada it would be a feasible thing if any Ministry organized taking over both the Health and the Disease of the entire community... even in the most favourable circumstances... there would be that absence of competition and that sense of independence... I do not believe it would be good for the profession or good for the Public.

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

The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.

Shed, as you do your garments, your daily sins, whether of omission or commission, and you will wake a free man, with a new life.

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

The great minds, the great works transcend all limitations of time, of language, and of race, and the scholar can never feel initiated into the company of the elect until he can approach all of life's problems from the cosmopolitan standpoint.