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

Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.

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

The great majority gave no signs one way or the other; like birth, their death was a sleep and a forgetting.

The great minds, the great works transcend all limitations of time, of language, and of race, and the scholar can never feel initiated into the company of the elect until he can approach all of life's problems from the cosmopolitan standpoint.

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

A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never!