What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?

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

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

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.

He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.

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