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

Every patient you see is a lesson in much more than the malady from which he suffers.

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

Conservatism and old fogeyism are totally different things; the motto of one is "Prove all things and hold fast that which is good" and of the other "Prove nothing but hold fast that which is old."

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

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 value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.