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

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.

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

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

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.

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