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.

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

Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity.

He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.

Even in populous districts, the practice of medicine is a lonely road which winds up-hill all the way and a man may easily go astray and never reach the Delectable Mountains unless he early finds those shepherd guides of whom Bunyan tells, Knowledge, Experience, Watchful, and Sincere.

A well-trained, sensible doctor is one of the most valuable assets of a community.

Jaundice is the disease that your friends diagnose.