To wrest from nature the secrets which have perplexed philosophers of all ages, to track to their sources the causes of disease, to correlate the vast stores of knowledge, that they may be quickly available for the prevention and cure of disease — these are our ambitions.

Aequanimitas, with Other Addresses to Medical Students, Nurses, and, Practitioners of Medicine, Chauvinism in Medicine (p. 267), The Blakiston Company. 1932