If it were not for the great variability among individuals, medicine might as well be a science, not an art.

Now of the difficulties bound up with the public in which we doctors work, I hesitate to speak in a mixed audience. Common sense in matters medical is rare, and is usually in inverse ratio to the degree of education.

If it were not for the great variability among individuals, medicine might as well be a science, not an art.

Jaundice is the disease that your friends diagnose.

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Be calm and strong and patient. Meet failure and disappointment with courage. Rise superior to the trials of life, and never give in to hopelessness or despair. In danger, in adversity, cling to your principles and ideals. Aequanimitas!