“The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.” — William Osler

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

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.

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

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.