Taking a lady’s hand gives her confidence in her physician.
We are constantly misled by the ease with which our minds fall into the ruts of one or two experiences.
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.
A well-trained, sensible doctor is one of the most valuable assets of a community.
In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.
Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day’s work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.
Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.
Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher’s stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.
To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals – this alone is worth the struggle.
The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
He who knows syphilis knows medicine.
Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility.
The uselessness of men above sixty years of age and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, in political, and in professional life, if as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age.
There is no more potent antidote to the corroding influence of mammon than the presence in the community of a body of men devoted to science, living for investigation and caring nothing for the lust of the eyes and the pride of life.
The great minds, the great works transcend all limitations of time, of language, and of race, and the scholar can never feel initiated into the company of the elect until he can approach all of life’s problems from the cosmopolitan standpoint.
Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity.
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.
Save the fleeting minute; learn gracefully to dodge the bore.