A library represents the mind of its collector, fancies and foibles, strengths and weaknesses, prejudices and preferences.

A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never!

He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

Without faith a man can do nothing; with it all things are possible.

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

Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility.