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.

A library represents the mind of its collector, fancies and foibles, strengths and weaknesses, prejudices and preferences.

If it were not for the great variability among individuals, medicine might as well be a science, not an art.

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

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.

Gentlemen, I have a confession to make. Half of what we have taught you is in error, and furthermore we cannot tell you which half it is