187 Quotes by William Osler

Laughter is the music of life.

Avoid wine and women - choose a freckly-faced girl for a wife; they are invariably more amiable.

In the Mortality Bills, pneumonia is an easy second, to tuberculosis; indeed in many cities the death-rate is now higher and it has become, to use the phrase of Bunyan 'the captain of the men of death.'

Faith is a most precious commodity, without which we should be very badly off.

Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise...

To do today's work well and not to bother about tomorrow is the secret of accomplishment

Even in populous districts, the practice of medicine is a lonely road which winds up-hill all the way and a man may easily go astray and never reach the Delectable Mountains unless he early finds those shepherd guides of whom Bunyan tells, Knowledge, Experience, Watchful, and Sincere.

Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet that is essential.

A library represents the mind of its collector, his fancies and foibles, his strength and weakness, his prejudices and preferences. Particularly is this the case if, to the character of a collector, he adds - or tries to add - the qualities of a student who wishes to know the books and the lives of the men who wrote them. The friendships of his life, the phases of his growth, the vagaries of his mind, all are represented.