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

The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.

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

Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.

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.

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

Jaundice is the disease that your friends diagnose.