The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it. – William Osler
There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language. – William Osler
The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest…. – William Osler
The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget. – William Osler
Look out into the July night, and see the broad belt of silver flame which flashes up the half of heaven, fresh and delicate as the bonfires of the meadow-flies. Yet the powers of numbers cannot compute its enormous age,—lasting as space and time,—embosomed in time and space. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Progress of Culture”