Gentlemen, I Have A Confession To Make.

To Have Striven, To Have Made The Effort, To Have Been True To Certain Ideals - This Alone Is Worth The Struggle.

Look Wise, Say Nothing, And Grunt. Speech Was Given To Conceal Thought.

Throw Away All Ambition Beyond That Of Doing The Day's Work Well. The Travelers On The Road To Success Live In The Present, Heedless Of Taking Thought For The Morrow. Live Neither In The Past Nor In The Future, But Let Each Day's Work Absorb Your Entire Energies, And Satisfy Your Wildest Ambition.

I Desire No Other Epitaph - No Hurry About It, I May Say - Than The Statement That I Taught Medical Students In The Wards, As I Regard This As By Far The Most Useful And Important Work I Have Been Called Upon To Do.

Too Many Men Slip Early Out Of The Habit Of Studious Reading, And Yet That Is Essential.