Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf. – William Osler
Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity, and consume your own smoke with an extra draft of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaints. – William Osler
To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals – this alone is worth the struggle. – William Osler
The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and beget. – William Osler
Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best works; and when you are grounded in these, you will have a standard for the rest, which you will know how to value, without overrating them. – Johann von Goethe