We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.

Nothing is life is more wonderful than faith.

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

The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.

The future belongs to Science. More and more she will control the destinies of the nations. Already she has them in her crucible and on her balances.

I desire no other epitaph - no hurry about it, I may say - than the statement that I taught medical students in the wards, as I regard this as by far the most useful and important work I have been called upon to do.

Patients rarely die of the disease from which they suffer. Secondary or terminal infections are the real cause of death.