 Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability. |
| 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 natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget. |
| 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. |
| The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well. |
| The future is today. |
| No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition. |
| One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine. |
| Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought. |
