Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health.

There are no incurable diseases — only the lack of will. There are no worthless herbs — only the lack of knowledge.

Width of life is more important than length of life.

The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.

The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.

Is it the fault of wine if a fool drinks it and goes stumbling into darkness?

An ignorant doctor is the aide-de-camp of death.

The more brilliant the lightning, the quicker it disappears.

I [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length.

Medicine considers the human body as to the means by which it is cured and by which it is driven away from health.

The different sorts of madness are innumerable.

Your relationship with others is your relationship to yourself mirrored back to you.

If we let the drama of others’ lives become our own, then we are no longer ourselves.

When in life you are destined great, but fated to a humble background, it always gets really worse before it gets really better.

The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.

I don't s'pose anybody on earth likes gingerbread better'n I do-and gets less'n I do.

Never forget that it is the spirit with which you endow your work that makes it useful or futile.

Lovers re-create the world.

The greater part of mankind judge of men only by their fashionableness or their fortune.

To love a fool is a misfortune, but does not make one a fool.

Sometimes it's easier for people who are in authority to be authoritarian, because people know where you stand.