To know just what has do be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life. — William Osler Copy Share Image
We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life. — William Osler Copy Share Image
What is patience but an equanimity which enables you to rise superior to the trials of life. — William Osler Copy Share Image
The very first step toward success in any occupation is to become interested in it. Locke put this in a very happy… — William Osler Copy Share Image
The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases. — William Osler Copy Share Image
Now the way of life that I preach is a habit to be acquired gradually by long and steady repetition. It is… — William Osler Copy Share Image
Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no… — William Osler Copy Share Image
The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have… — William Osler Copy Share Image
There is no more potent antidote to the corroding influence of mammon than the presence in the community of a body of… — William Osler Copy Share Image
Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the… — William Osler Copy Share Image
The uselessness of men above sixty years of age and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, in political, and in… — William Osler Copy Share Image
To have a group of cloistered clinicians away completely from the broad current of professional life would be bad for teacher and… — William Osler Copy Share Image
The practice of medicine will be very much as you make it - to one a worry, a care, a perpetual annoyance;… — William Osler Copy Share Image
There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression… — William Osler Copy Share Image
“We may indeed be justly proud of our apostolic succesion. THESE ARE OUR METHODS - to carefully observe the phenomena of life… — William Osler Copy Share Image
But whatever you do, take neither yourselves nor your fellow-creatures too seriously. There is tragedy enough in our daily routine, but there… — William Osler Copy Share Image
Engrossed late and soon in professional cares, getting and spending, you may may so lay waste your powers that you may find,… — William Osler Copy Share Image
The great minds, the great works transcend all limitations of time, of language, and of race, and the scholar can never feel… — William Osler Copy Share Image
Shed, as you do your garments, your daily sins, whether of omission or commission, and you will wake a free man, with… — William Osler Copy Share Image
Courage and cheerfulness will not only carry you over the rough places in life, but will enable you to bring comfort and… — William Osler Copy Share Image
The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves… — William Osler Copy Share Image
As it can be maintained that all the great advances have come from men under forty, so the history of the world shows that… — William Osler Copy Share
But whatever you do, take neither yourselves nor your fellow-creatures too seriously. There is tragedy enough in our daily routine, but there is room… — William Osler Copy Share
The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of tomorrow, are not fiery dragons interposed between the people… — William Osler Copy Share
Throw away all ambition beyond that of doing the day's work well. The travelers on the road to success live in the present, heedless… — William Osler Copy Share
The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it. — William Osler Copy Share
The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest. — William Osler Copy Share
He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all. — William Osler Copy Share
In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions. — William Osler Copy Share
Shed, as you do your garments, your daily sins, whether of omission or commission, and you will wake a free man, with a new… — William Osler Copy Share
