Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility.

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.'

He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.

It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.

Personally, I do not see in Canada it would be a feasible thing if any Ministry organized taking over both the Health and the Disease of the entire community... even in the most favourable circumstances... there would be that absence of competition and that sense of independence... I do not believe it would be good for the profession or good for the Public.

Nothing is life is more wonderful than faith.

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