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."

Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.

He who knows syphilis knows medicine

Nothing is life is more wonderful than faith.

The 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.

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

We doctors have always been a simple trusting folk. Did we not believe Galen implicitly for 1500 years and Hippocrates for more than 2000?