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
The great majority gave no signs one way or the other; like birth, their death was a sleep and a forgetting. — William Osler Copy Share Image
The extraordinary development of modern science may be her undoing. Specialism, now a necessity, has fragmented the specialities themselves in a way… — William Osler Copy Share Image
Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your… — William Osler Copy Share Image
Even in populous districts, the practice of medicine is a lonely road which winds up-hill all the way and a man may… — 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
Few diseases present greater difficulties in the way of diagnosis than malignant endocarditis, difficulties which in many cases are practi- cally insurmountable.… — 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
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
