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

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

The great majority gave no signs one way or the other; like birth, their death was a sleep and a forgetting.

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.

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.

The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.

Beware of people who call you 'Doc.' They rarely pay their bills.