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

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

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

That man can interrogate as well as observe nature was a lesson slowly learned in his evolution.

The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

To know just what has do be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.

In the Mortality Bills, pneumonia is an easy second, to tuberculosis; indeed in many cities the death-rate is now higher and it has become, to use the phrase of Bunyan 'the captain of the men of death.'