William Osler

Medicine is the science by which we learn the various states of the human body.

Start late, work hard, and retire early.

Punctuality is the soul of business.

The chief condition on which life, health, and vigor depend is action.

To each one of us the practice of medicine wears a different aspect.

The supreme tragedy of life is never to have reached the point where one can stand alone.

In medicine the art of listening is as important as the art of examining.

Work is the open sesame of life.

The doctor of the future will be oneself.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my mistress.

The hardest stone to move is the one at the entrance to the cemetery.

Acquire a little knowledge of the history of medicine, for the study of it will enable you to judge correctly of the delusions of the day.

The future is today.

No human being is judged by his wit; his sincerity, his probity, his rectitude are the criteria.

The art of detachment is the art of the master.

Patients with typhoid should be treated like spoiled children.

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion.

The successful doctor is one who can read between the lines of the patient's history.

Forget what you are and enjoy what you do.