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.

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.

I desire no other epitaph - no hurry about it, I may say - than the statement that I taught medical students in the wards, as I regard this as by far the most useful and important work I have been called upon to do.

Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility.

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

Few diseases present greater difficulties in the way of diagnosis than malignant endocarditis, difficulties which in many cases are practi- cally insurmountable. It is no disparagement to the many skilled physicians who have put their cases upon record to say that, in fully one-half the diagnosis was made post mortem.

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