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

In the Mortality Bills, pneumonia is an easy second, to tuberculosis; indeed in many cities the death-rate is now higher and it has become, to use the phrase of Bunyan 'the captain of the men of death.'

Faith is a most precious commodity, without which we should be very badly off.

Shed, as you do your garments, your daily sins, whether of omission or commission, and you will wake a free man, with a new life.

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

We doctors have always been a simple trusting folk. Did we not believe Galen implicitly for 1500 years and Hippocrates for more than 2000?

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.