Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity.

Medicine is learned by the bedside and not in the classroom. Let not your conceptions of disease come from words heard in the lecture room or read from the book. See, and then reason and compare and control. But see first.

For the general practitioner a well-used library is one of the few correctives of the premature senility which is so apt to take him.

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.

It wasn't my finest hour. It wasn't even my finest half hour.

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted, and the trouble is I don't know which half