“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.”

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

“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 disease of the soul is both more common and more deadly than the disease of the body. Just as medicine is the art devoted to healing the body, so philosophy is the art devoted to healing the so...”

“Popular medicine and popular morality belong together and ought not to be evaluated so differently as they still are: both are the most dangerous pseudo-sciences.”

“One of the essential qualities of the clinician is interest in humanity, for the secret of the care of the patient is in caring for the patient.”

“In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.”

“Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.”

“Health is relative. There is no such thing as an absolute state of health or sickness. Everyone's physical, mental, and emotional condition is a combination of both.”