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

Fed on the dry husks of facts, the human heart has a hidden want which science cannot supply.

The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

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 teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Shed, as you do your garments, your daily sins, whether of omission or commission, and you will wake a free man, with a new life.