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

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

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.

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

He who knows syphilis knows medicine

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