Nothing is life is more wonderful than faith.

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

We doctors have always been a simple trusting folk. Did we not believe Galen implicitly for 1500 years and Hippocrates for more than 2000?

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

It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.

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.

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