Quotes from William Osler

That man can interrogate as well as observe nature was a lesson slowly learned in his evolution.

A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never!

The most essential thing for happiness is the gift of friendship.

The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest.

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.

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs.

No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.

No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.

Few diseases present greater difficulties in the way of diagnosis than malignant endocarditis, difficulties which in many cases are practi- cally insurmountable. It is no disparagement to the many skilled physicians who have put their cases upon record to say that, in fully one-half the diagnosis was made post mortem.

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals -- this alone is worth the struggle.

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.