The most essential thing for happiness is the gift of friendship.

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.

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

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.

Beware of people who call you 'Doc.' They rarely pay their bills.

The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.