There's nothing really difficult if you only begin - some people contemplate a task until it looms so big, it seems impossible, but I just begin and …

- John Shaw Billings

The education of the doctor which goes on after he has his degree is, after all, the most important part of his education.

- John Shaw Billings

If free men refused to look at dead bodies then brave men will have died in vain.

- John Shaw Billings

Statistics are somewhat like old medical journals, or like revolvers in newly opened mining districts. Most men rarely use them, and find it troubles…

- John Shaw Billings

On speaking: first, have something to say; second, say it; third, stop when you have said it; and finally give it an accurate title.

- John Shaw Billings