The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles.

There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs.

The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

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

Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.

In the Mortality Bills, pneumonia is an easy second, to tuberculosis; indeed in many cities the death-rate is now higher and it has become, to use the phrase of Bunyan 'the captain of the men of death.'

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