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.

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

It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.

The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.

He who knows syphilis knows medicine

The very first step toward success in any occupation is to become interested in it. Locke put this in a very happy way when he said, give a pupil "a relish of knowledge" and you put life into his work.

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