All Quotes

No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher. ”

The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget. ”

Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert. ”

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely. ”

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. ”

The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases. ”

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

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. ”

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. ”

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