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

A library represents the mind of its collector, fancies and foibles, strengths and weaknesses, prejudices and preferences.

We are all dietetic sinners; only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us; the balance goes to waste and loss of energy.

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

Gentlemen, I have a confession to make. Half of what we have taught you is in error, and furthermore we cannot tell you which half it is

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.

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.