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

“Look wise say nothing and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.”

“In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.”

“The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.”

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

“One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.”

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

“It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the most trifling of his works.”

“TheSc ots are the backbone of Canada. They are all right in their three vital parts - head heart and haggis.”

“Study until twenty-five investigation until forty profession until sixty at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.”

“The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.”