Fortune Favors The Well-prepared.

Since The Most Ancient Times, All Men, And Particularly Those Who Endeavored In The Practice Of Medicine, Have Brought Closer Together Two Natural Phenomena Of Capital Importance: Illness Or Fever And Fermentation.

The More I Study Nature, The More I Stand Amazed At The Work Of The Creator. Science Brings Men Nearer To God.

If It Is A Terrifying Thought That Life Is At The Mercy Of The Multiplication Of These Minute Bodies [microbes], It Is A Consoling Hope That Science Will Not Always Remain Powerless Before Such Enemies.

Great Problems Are Now Being Handled, Keeping Every Thinking Man In Suspense; The Unity Or Multiplicity Of Human Races; The Creation Of Man 1,000 Years Or 1,000 Centuries Ago; The Fixity Of Species, Or The Slow And Progressive Transformation Of One Species Into Another; The Eternity Of Matter; The Idea Of A God Unnecessary: Such Are Some Of The Questions That Humanity Discusses Nowadays.

The Only Thing That Can Bring Joy Is Work.