"We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life." ― William Osler Topic(s): Life More From William Osler "The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely." "Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability." "Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants." More In Life "The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded."― Leo Tolstoy "The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life – mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical."― Julius Erving "Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another."― Joseph Addison