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

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

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

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.

The 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.

If it were not for the great variability among individuals, medicine might as well be a science, not an art.

Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.