“A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession.”

“Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.”

“A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions.”

“Knowledge is a process of piling up facts wisdom lies in their simplification.”

“In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.”

“Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.”

“One thing I can guarantee you. You may not be a great deal wiser from my talk today but you will be a great deal older.”

“I want to thank everybody who made this day necessary.”

“I really don't deserve this but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.”