Think not of the amount to be accomplished, the difficulties to be overcome, or the end to be attained, but set earnestly at the little task at your elbow, letting that be sufficient for the day.

Fed on the dry husks of facts, the human heart has a hidden want which science cannot supply.

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.

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

Conservatism and old fogeyism are totally different things; the motto of one is "Prove all things and hold fast that which is good" and of the other "Prove nothing but hold fast that which is old."

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.