One of the unseen benefits of having children is that they deliver you from your own selfishness. There's no going back.
We are all dietetic sinners; only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us; the balance goes to waste and loss of energy.
The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head. Often the best part of your work will have nothing to do with potions and powders, but with the exercise of an influence of the strong upon the weak, of the righteous upon the wicked, of the wise upon the foolish.
The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
Listen to your patient, he is telling you the diagnosis.
Care more for the individual patient than for the special features of the disease. . . . Put yourself in his place. . . The kindly word, the cheerful greeting, the sympathetic look - these the patient understands.
It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.
Oh, I'm developing a beautiful character! It droops a bit under cold and frost, but it does grow fast when the sun shines. That's the way with everybody. I don't agree with the theory that adversity and sorrow and disappointment develop moral strength. The happy people are the ones who are bubbling over with kindliness.
We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.
Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.
Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others.