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.'

No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.

It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.

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

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.

Jaundice is the disease that your friends diagnose.

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