Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.

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

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

The extraordinary development of modern science may be her undoing. Specialism, now a necessity, has fragmented the specialities themselves in a way that makes the outlook hazardous. The workers lose all sense of proportion in a maze of minutiae.

Happiness lies in the absorption in some vocation which satisfies the soul.

There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs.

Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise.