Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
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.
The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician.
Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence.
The physician's high and only mission is to restore the sick to health, to cure, as it is termed.