Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease. — William Osler Copy Share Image
The search for static security - in the law and elsewhere - is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well. — William Osler Copy Share Image
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 Image
The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it. — William Osler Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions. — 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 a new… — William Osler Copy Share Image
