The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

Patients rarely die of the disease from which they suffer. Secondary or terminal infections are the real cause of death.

Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity.

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

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

The most essential thing for happiness is the gift of friendship.

What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?