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

In the Mortality Bills, pneumonia is an easy second, to tuberculosis; indeed in many cities the death-rate is now higher and it has become, to use the phrase of Bunyan 'the captain of the men of death.'

No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.

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