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

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

Now of the difficulties bound up with the public in which we doctors work, I hesitate to speak in a mixed audience. Common sense in matters medical is rare, and is usually in inverse ratio to the degree of education.

If it were not for the great variability among individuals, medicine might as well be a science, not an art.

The great majority gave no signs one way or the other; like birth, their death was a sleep and a forgetting.

No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.

Beware of people who call you 'Doc.' They rarely pay their bills.