“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.”

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

“The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.”

“At the age of 45, most days in Tucson were spent feeling like I was on the summit of Mauna Kea, as I was exhibiting debilitating health symptoms that corresponded to what I saw at very high altitud...”

“The hour is only long thus, if you've waited.”