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

Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility.

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

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.

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

Patients rarely die of the disease from which they suffer. Secondary or terminal infections are the real cause of death.

What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?