“Statistics is the most important science in the whole world: for upon it depends the practical application of every other science and of every art: the one science essential to all political and social administration, all education, all organization based on experience, for it only gives results of our experience.”

“No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation.”

“Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.”

“Anyone wishing to study medicine must master the art of massage.”

“In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the other eyes as mine see it.”

“No great work of art is ever finished.”

“Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.”