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

The very first step toward success in any occupation is to become interested in it. Locke put this in a very happy way when he said, give a pupil "a relish of knowledge" and you put life into his work.

Patients rarely die of the disease from which they suffer. Secondary or terminal infections are the real cause of death.

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

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

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

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.