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!

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

The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.

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

The hardest conviction to get into the mind of a beginner is that the education upon which he is engaged is not a college course, not a medical course, but a life course, for which the work of a few years under teachers is but a preparation.

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

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.