The Most Essential Thing For Happiness Is

The Hardest Conviction To Get Into The Mind Of A Beginner Is That The Education Upon Which He Is Engaged Is Not A College Course, Not A Medical Course, But A Life Course, For Which The Work Of A Few Years Under Teachers Is But A Preparation.

I Desire No Other Epitaph - No Hurry About It, I May Say - Than The Statement That I Taught Medical Students In The Wards, As I Regard This As By Far The Most Useful And Important Work I Have Been Called Upon To Do.

The Natural Man Has Only Two Primal Passions, To Get And Beget.

Live Neither In The Past Nor In The Future, But Let Each Day's Work Absorb Your Entire Energies, And Satisfy Your Widest Ambition.

At The Outset Do Not Be Worried About This Big Question-truth. It Is A Very Simple Matter If Each One Of You Starts With The Desire To Get As Much As Possible. 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. In This Unsatisfied Quest The Attitude Of Mind, The Desire, The Thirst-a Thirst That From The Soul Must Arise!-the Fervent Longing, Are The Be-all And The End-all.