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

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

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

The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.

At the outset do not be worried about this big question-Truth. It is a very simple matter if each one of you starts with the desire to get as much as possible. No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition. In this unsatisfied quest the attitude of mind, the desire, the thirst-a thirst that from the soul must arise!-the fervent longing, are the be-all and the end-all.

In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.

The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles.