Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.

Acute [diseases] meaning those of which God is the author, chronic meaning those that originate in ourselves.

I confidently affirm that the greater part of those who are supposed to have died of gout, have died of the medicine rather than the disease - a statement in which I am supported by observation.

A man is as old as his arteries.

The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than twenty asses laden with drugs.

Gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple. Great kings, emperors, generals, admirals and philosophers have all died of gout.

Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium.

The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.

Fever itself is Nature's instrument.

We may ascertain the worth of the human race, since for its sake God's Only-begotten Son became man, and thereby ennobled the nature that he took upon him.

In writing the history of a disease, every philosophical hypothesis whatsoever, that has previously occupied the mind of the author, should lie in abeyance.

say what you mean and mean what you say

The fact that you have unlimited texts does not necessarily mean that you cannot stop talking

I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.

Every writer is working from his own individual world view, and that can become as characteristic as a fingerprint.

When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.

Philip Sharpe was a soldier in God's army," says the minister. "Now he marches with the angels.

My trick is the trick that everyone knows: Work really hard and prepare.

A child who has a grandparent has a softened view of life, the feeling that there is more to life than what we see, more than getting and gaining, winning and losing.

Music isn’t just music, it’s therapy.

A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world.