We are overwhelmed as it is, with an infinite abundance of vaunted medicaments, and here they add another one.

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.

Even ripples have a rhythmTo feel it, listen to their soundTap your feet as they directAnd joy shall abound…

I am not a bloody ghoda running a race that you give me a tag. I am competitive, and the reason for that is that I want to do the best films.

A problem is something you have hopes of changing. Anything else is a fact of life.

Many Christians suffer from loneliness because they are sitting instead of serving.

I had been taught to look for monsters and devils and I found ordinary people.

Sometimes you have to explore the darkness to get to the light and get back to who you are.

She went kind of pink and laughed, the kind of laugh you do when you know yo shouldn't be laughing. The kind of laugh that spoke of a conspiracy.

There is no such thing as failure. Mistakes happen in your life to bring into focus more clearly who you really are.

I believe we're making a mistake if we regard job creation and job safety as mutually exclusive or inherently in conflict; they can and they must go hand-in-hand.

A library's ideal function is to be a little bit like a bouquiniste's stall, a place for trouvailles.