The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.

The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.

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

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

The future is today.

It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.

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

The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well.

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

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.

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.