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.

It is not... That some people do not know what to do with truth when it is offered to them, But the tragic fate is to reach, after patient search, a condition of mind-blindness, in which. The truth is not recognized, though it stares you in the face.

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

The hardest conviction to get into the mind of a beginner is that the education upon which he is engaged is not a college course, not a medical course, but a life course, for which the work of a few years under teachers is but a preparation.

Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise.

The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles.

It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.