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

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

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.

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.

He who knows syphilis knows medicine

Now of the difficulties bound up with the public in which we doctors work, I hesitate to speak in a mixed audience. Common sense in matters medical is rare, and is usually in inverse ratio to the degree of education.

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.