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

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 value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.

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

Every patient you see is a lesson in much more than the malady from which he suffers.

I desire no other epitaph - no hurry about it, I may say - than the statement that I taught medical students in the wards, as I regard this as by far the most useful and important work I have been called upon to do.