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

Happiness lies in the absorption in some vocation which satisfies the soul.

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.

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.

It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.

The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.

The extraordinary development of modern science may be her undoing. Specialism, now a necessity, has fragmented the specialities themselves in a way that makes the outlook hazardous. The workers lose all sense of proportion in a maze of minutiae.