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

The 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.

Think not of the amount to be accomplished, the difficulties to be overcome, or the end to be attained, but set earnestly at the little task at your elbow, letting that be sufficient for the day.

Fed on the dry husks of facts, the human heart has a hidden want which science cannot supply.

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

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

Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.