1. “Medicine would be the ideal profession if it did not involve giving pain.”
2. “The path of the pursuer and the prey often run obscurely parallel.”
3. “Shut your eyes to the medical columns of the newspapers and you save yourself many forebodings and symptoms.”
4. “Ignorance and credulous hope make the market for most proprietary remedies.”
5. “We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal eternal.”
6. “Printer’s ink, when it spells out a doctor’s promise to cure, is one of the subtlest and dangerous of poisons.”
7. “Success: a marvelous stimulant, bubbling with inspiration and incitement. But for all except the few who are strong and steadyfast, there lurks beneath the effervescence a subtle poison.”
8. “Boredom is simply romanticism with a morning-after thirst.”
9. “The ordinary run of advertising is nothing more than an effort to sell something by yelling in print.”
10. “Shortest straw pulls the skunk’s tail.”
