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.

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.

Shed, as you do your garments, your daily sins, whether of omission or commission, and you will wake a free man, with a new life.

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.

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

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