The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.

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.

Patients rarely die of the disease from which they suffer. Secondary or terminal infections are the real cause of death.

Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility.

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

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