Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.

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

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

That man can interrogate as well as observe nature was a lesson slowly learned in his evolution.

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.

Every patient you see is a lesson in much more than the malady from which he suffers.