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.

That man can interrogate as well as observe nature was a lesson slowly learned in his evolution.

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

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

The clean tongue, the clear head, and the bright eye are birthrights of each day.

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

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.