Be calm and strong and patient. Meet failure and disappointment with courage. Rise superior to the trials of life, and never give in to hopelessness or despair. In danger, in adversity, cling to your principles and ideals. Aequanimitas!

The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.

Without faith a man can do nothing; with it all things are possible.

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.

Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.

Patients rarely die of the disease from which they suffer. Secondary or terminal infections are the real cause of death.

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.