To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.
William OslerLive neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.
William OslerI 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.
William Osler