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.

The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.

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

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

He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.

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.