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.

Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity.

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.

Fed on the dry husks of facts, the human heart has a hidden want which science cannot supply.

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

A well-trained, sensible doctor is one of the most valuable assets of a community.