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

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

“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.”

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

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

“He was a man take him for all in all I shall not look upon his like again.”

“I am a member of the rabble in good standing.”

“The strongest human instinct is to impart information the second strongest is to resist it.”

“Huius (sapientis) opus unum est de divinis humanisque verum invenire; ab hac numquam recedit religio, pietas, iustitia ...”