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

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

At the outset do not be worried about this big question-Truth. It is a very simple matter if each one of you starts with the desire to get as much as possible. No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition. In this unsatisfied quest the attitude of mind, the desire, the thirst-a thirst that from the soul must arise!-the fervent longing, are the be-all and the end-all.

Jaundice is the disease that your friends diagnose.

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.

Shed, as you do your garments, your daily sins, whether of omission or commission, and you will wake a free man, with a new life.

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