If It Were Not For

Courage And Cheerfulness Will Not Only Carry You Over The Rough Places In Life, But Will Enable You To Bring Comfort And Help To The Weak-hearted And Will Console You In The Sad Hours.

Think Not Of The Amount To Be Accomplished, The Difficulties To Be Overcome, Or The End To Be Attained, But Set Earnestly At The Little Task At Your Elbow, Letting That Be Sufficient For The Day.

The Young Physician Starts Life With 20 Drugs For Each Disease, And The Old Physician Ends Life With One Drug For 20 Diseases.

The Teacher's Life Should Have Three Periods, Study Until Twenty-five, Investigation Until Forty, Profession Until Sixty, At Which Age I Would Have Him Retired On A Double Allowance.

But Whatever You Do, Take Neither Yourselves Nor Your Fellow-creatures Too Seriously. There Is Tragedy Enough In Our Daily Routine, But There Is Room Too For A Keen Sense Of The Absurdities And Incongruities Of Life, And In The Shifting Panorama No One Sees Better Than The Doctor The Perennial Sameness Of Men’s Ways.