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

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

The very first step toward success in any occupation is to become interested in it. Locke put this in a very happy way when he said, give a pupil "a relish of knowledge" and you put life into his work.

It is not... That some people do not know what to do with truth when it is offered to them, But the tragic fate is to reach, after patient search, a condition of mind-blindness, in which. The truth is not recognized, though it stares you in the face.

Every patient you see is a lesson in much more than the malady from which he suffers.

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

We are all dietetic sinners; only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us; the balance goes to waste and loss of energy.