The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
William Osler

The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.
William Osler

There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs.
William Osler

There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.
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

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.
William Osler

To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.
William Osler

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.
William Osler

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.
William Osler

What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
William Osler