A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never!
A physician who treats himself has a fool for a patient.
The future belongs to Science. More and more she will control the destinies of the nations. Already she has them in her crucible and on her balances.
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.
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.
Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.
A library represents the mind of its collector, fancies and foibles, strengths and weaknesses, prejudices and preferences.
Jaundice is the disease that your friends diagnose.
What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
Nature, the great Moloch, which exacts a frightful tax of human blood, sparing neither young nor old; taking the child from the cradle, the mother from her babe, and the father from the family.
It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the most trifling of his works.
The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves and their joys, their sorrows and their griefs.
Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others.
When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.
The extraordinary development of modern science may be her undoing. Specialism, now a necessity, has fragmented the specialities themselves in a way that makes the outlook hazardous. The workers lose all sense of proportion in a maze of minutiae.
Even in populous districts, the practice of medicine is a lonely road which winds up-hill all the way and a man may easily go astray and never reach the Delectable Mountains unless he early finds those shepherd guides of whom Bunyan tells, Knowledge, Experience, Watchful, and Sincere.
To know just what has do be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.
Avoid wine and women – choose a freckly-faced girl for a wife; they are invariably more amiable.
What is patience but an equanimity which enables you to rise superior to the trials of life.
The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and beget.