What Is The Student But A Lover

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

There Is A Form Of Laughter That Springs From The Heart, Heard Every Day In The Merry Voice Of Childhood, The Expression Of A Laughter - Loving Spirit That Defies Analysis By The Philosopher, Which Has Nothing Rigid Or Mechanical In It, And Totally Without Social Significance. Bubbling Spontaneously From The Heart Of Child Or Man. Without Egotism And Full Of Feeling, Laughter Is The Music Of Life.

A Library Represents The Mind Of Its Collector, His Fancies And Foibles, His Strength And Weakness, His Prejudices And Preferences. Particularly Is This The Case If, To The Character Of A Collector, He Adds - Or Tries To Add - The Qualities Of A Student Who Wishes To Know The Books And The Lives Of The Men Who Wrote Them. The Friendships Of His Life, The Phases Of His Growth, The Vagaries Of His Mind, All Are Represented.

Without Faith A Man Can Do Nothing; With It All Things Are Possible.

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.