Humanity has but three great enemies: fever, famine, and war; of these by far the greatest, by far the most terrible, is fever.
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Nothing in life is more wonderful than faith—the one great moving force which we can neither weigh in the balance nor test in the crucible.
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To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.
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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.
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The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.
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We are here to add what we can to, not to get what we can from, Life.
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Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
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There are three classes of human beings: men, women and women physicians.
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Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature—subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasures, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today...The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty.
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The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
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One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
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The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.
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We can only instill principles, put the student in the right path, give him method, teach him how to study, and early to discern between essentials and non-essentials.
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