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

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert.

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

The hardest conviction to get into the mind of a beginner is that the education upon which he is engaged is not a college course, not a medical course, but a life course, for which the work of a few years under teachers is but a preparation.

Now of the difficulties bound up with the public in which we doctors work, I hesitate to speak in a mixed audience. Common sense in matters medical is rare, and is usually in inverse ratio to the degree of education.

A well-trained, sensible doctor is one of the most valuable assets of a community.