We are constantly misled by the ease with which our minds fall into the ruts of one or two experiences

The great minds, the great works transcend all limitations of time, of language, and of race, and the scholar can never feel initiated into the company of the elect until he can approach all of life's problems from the cosmopolitan standpoint.

So easy to fall into a rut, isn't it? Why should ruts be so comfortable and so unpopular?

One finger in the throat and one in the rectum makes a good diagnostician.

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.

The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.