Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

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 young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.

There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.

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.

There are no straight backs, no symmetrical faces, many wry noses, and no even legs. We are a crooked and perverse generation.