The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.
The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.
The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.
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.
It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.
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.
The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.
To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.
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.
The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well.
We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.
He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.
There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.