No dreams, no visions, no delicious fantasies, no castles in the air, with which, as the old song so truly says, hearts are broken, heads are turned.
One special advantage of the skeptical attitude of mind is that a man is never vexed to find that after all he has been in the wrong.
The clean tongue, the clear head, and the bright eye are birthrights of each day.
Faith is a most precious commodity, without which we should be very badly off.
Engrossed late and soon in professional cares, getting and spending, you may may so lay waste your powers that you may find, too late, with hearts given away, that t here is no place in your habit-stricken souls for those gentler influences which make your life worth living.
Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise...
Laughter is the music of life.
To it, more than to anything else, I owe whatever success I have had – to this power of settling down to the day’s work and trying to do it to the best of one’s ability, and letting the future take care of itself.
No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.
For the general practitioner a well-used library is one of the few correctives of the premature senility which is so apt to take him.
It is not the delicate neurotic person who is prone to angina, but the robust, the vigorous in mind and body, the keen and ambitious man, the indicator of whose engines is always at full speed ahead.
The Scots are the backbone of Canada. They are all right in their three vital parts – head, heart and haggis.
The higher the standard of education in a profession, the less marked will be the charlatanism.
In the Mortality Bills, pneumonia is an easy second, to tuberculosis; indeed in many cities the death-rate is now higher and it has become, to use the phrase of Bunyan ‘the captain of the men of death.’
Fed on the dry husks of facts, the human heart has a hidden want which science cannot supply.
Courage and cheerfulness will not only carry you over the rough places in life, but will enable you to bring comfort and help to the weak-hearted and will console you in the sad hours.
Happiness lies in the absorption in some vocation which satisfies the soul.
The higher education so much needed today is not given in the school, is not to be bought in the market place, but it has to be wrought out in each one of us for himself; it is the silent influence of character on character.
Nothing is life is more wonderful than faith.
Conservatism and old fogeyism are totally different things; the motto of one is “Prove all things and hold fast that which is good” and of the other “Prove nothing but hold fast that which is old.”