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.

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.

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

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

There's organized confusion on African roads while driving in the cities. If you want to mess up Afican Cities very easy, just fly in 100 Americans put them on the road and tell them to drive.

The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.

If I run a time-limited test program, I'll never discover whether markets with additional employment truly exist. A solution in the low-wage sector cannot be a limited special program.

No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.

The erosion of a nation's concern for life and for individual rights, has always preceded the intrusion of tyranny.

It's a luxury to have so much time, especially with someone so important and busy. You have to get a feel for the person.

I collaborate with people who know I'm a control freak.

I've got to tell you, I've got 99 problems, and palsy is just one.

We fear the things we want the most.

That's really what science is just trying to figure stuff out, and I like figuring stuff out.