The great majority gave no signs one way or the other; like birth, their death was a sleep and a forgetting.
William OslerPatients rarely die of the disease from which they suffer. Secondary or terminal infections are the real cause of death.
William OslerThe great minds, the great works transcend all limitations of time, of language, and of race, and the scholar can never feel initiated into the company of the elect until he can approach all of life's problems from the cosmopolitan standpoint.
William Osler