Even in populous districts, the practice of medicine is a lonely road which winds up-hill all the way and a man may easily go astray and never reach the Delectable Mountains unless he early finds those shepherd guides of whom Bunyan tells, Knowledge, Experience, Watchful, and Sincere.
William OslerThe 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.
William OslerIt is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.
William OslerThe great majority gave no signs one way or the other; like birth, their death was a sleep and a forgetting.
William Osler