“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.”

“None love to speak so much when the mood of speaking comes as they who are naturally taciturn.”

“Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.”

“Speak clearly if you speak at all Carve every word before you let it fall.”