That man can interrogate as well as observe nature was a lesson slowly learned in his evolution.

The practice of medicine will be very much as you make it - to one a worry, a care, a perpetual annoyance; to another, a daily job and a life of as much happiness and usefulness as can well fall to the lot of man, because it is a life of self-sacrifice and of countless opportunities to comfort and help the weak-hearted, and to raise up those that fall.

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

A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never!

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.

There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs.

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