The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest…. – William Osler
We are all dietetic sinners; only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us; the balance goes to waste and loss of energy. – William Osler
The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and beget. – 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
Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a moonlight night, followed by the fathers curse, mothers moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks. – Emma Goldman