It cannot be too often or too forcibly brought home to us that the hope of the profession is with the men who do its daily work in general practice.

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.

Listen to your patient, he is telling you the diagnosis.

The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the disease and once from the medicine.

Gentlemen, I have a confession to make. Half of what we have taught you is in error, and furthermore we cannot tell you which half it is

The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head.

No man is really happy or safe without a hobby.

He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.

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

The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest.

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.

I was persisting in reading my present environment in the light of my old one.

I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified.

Life is a cruel teacher. She loves to give you the test first and the lesson later.

I find it painful and angering to look in a mirror.

The world is nothing but a big gimmick.

Men's minds tend to fear more keenly those things that are absent.

Having a white parent undoubtedly makes for a different childhood experience than having two black parents.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

If you want to succeed in the world it is necessary, when entering a salon, that your vanity should bow to that of others.

If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake.