William Osler Heart Quotations

In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.

The Scots are the backbone of Canada. They are all right in their three vital parts - head, heart and haggis.

No dreams, no visions, no delicious fantasies, no castles in the air, with which, as the old song so truly says, hearts are broken, heads are turned.

Engrossed late and soon in professional cares, getting and spending, you may may so lay waste your powers that you may find, too late, with hearts given away, that t here is no place in your habit-stricken souls for those gentler influences which make your life worth living.

Fed on the dry husks of facts, the human heart has a hidden want which science cannot supply.