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

Even in populous districts, the practice of medicine is a lonely road which winds up-hill all the way and a man may easily go astray and never reach the Delectable Mountains unless he early finds those shepherd guides of whom Bunyan tells, Knowledge, Experience, Watchful, and Sincere.

He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.

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

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

The clean tongue, the clear head, and the bright eye are birthrights of each day.

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.