Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others. - William Osler

The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of tomorrow, are not fiery dragons interposed between the people and the books. They are useful public servants, who manage libraries in the interest of the public... Many still think that a great reader, or a writer of books, will make an excellent librarian. This is pure fallacy.

He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all

The young doctor should look about early for an avocation, a pastime, that will take him away from patients, pills, and potions.