No Man Is Really Happy Or Safe

As It Can Be Maintained That All The Great Advances Have Come From Men Under Forty, So The History Of The World Shows That A Very Large Proportion Of The Evils May Be Traced To The Sexagenarians, Nearly All The Great Mistakes Politically And Socially, All Of The Worst Poems, Most Of The Bad Pictures, A Majority Of The Bad Novels And Not A Few Of The Bad Sermons And Speeches.

Nature, The Great Moloch, Which Exacts A Frightful Tax Of Human Blood, Sparing Neither Young Nor Old; Taking The Child From The Cradle, The Mother From Her Babe, And The Father From The Family.

It Is Much Simpler To Buy Books Than To Read Them And Easier To Read Them Than To Absorb Their Contents.

By Far The Most Dangerous Foe We Have To Fight Is Apathy-indifference From Whatever Cause, Not From A Lack Of Knowledge, But From Carelessness, From Absorption In Other Pursuits, From A Contempt Bred Of Self Satisfaction.

The Practice Of Medicine Will Be Very Much As You Make It - To One A Worry, A Care, A Perpetual Annoyance; To Another, A Daily Job And A Life Of As Much Happiness And Usefulness As Can Well Fall To The Lot Of Man, Because It Is A Life Of Self-sacrifice And Of Countless Opportunities To Comfort And Help The Weak-hearted, And To Raise Up Those That Fall.