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.
William OslerWe are all dietetic sinners; only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us; the balance goes to waste and loss of energy.
William OslerIt is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.
William OslerThe practice of medicine will be very much as you make it - to one a worry, a care, a perpetual annoyance; to another, a daily job and a life of as much happiness and usefulness as can well fall to the lot of man, because it is a life of self-sacrifice and of countless opportunities to comfort and help the weak-hearted, and to raise up those that fall.
William Osler