Perfect happiness for student and teacher will come with the abolition of examinations, which are stumbling blocks and rocks of offense in the pathwa… - William Osler

Acquire the art of detachment, the virtue of method, and the quality of thoroughness, but above all the grace of humility.

if oxen and lions and horses had hands and could draw, they would represent their gods as oxen and lions and horses.

Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature—subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasures, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today … The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty.