Quotes from William Osler

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day absorb all your interest, energy and enthusiasm. The best preparation for tomorrow is to live today superbly well.

Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.

Study until 25, investigate until 40, profession until 60, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

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

Avoid wine and women -- choose a freckly-faced girl for a wife; they are invariably more amiable.