The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.

Shed, as you do your garments, your daily sins, whether of omission or commission, and you will wake a free man, with a new life.

Faith is a most precious commodity, without which we should be very badly off.

We doctors have always been a simple trusting folk. Did we not believe Galen implicitly for 1500 years and Hippocrates for more than 2000?

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.

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

The most essential thing for happiness is the gift of friendship.