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

Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.

The practice of medicine will be very much as you make it - to one a worry, a care, a perpetual annoyance; to another, a daily job and a life of as much happiness and usefulness as can well fall to the lot of man, because it is a life of self-sacrifice and of countless opportunities to comfort and help the weak-hearted, and to raise up those that fall.

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

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

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.