Quotes from William Osler

To do today's work well and not to bother about tomorrow is the secret of accomplishment

What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?

Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaint.