A man is as old as his arteries.

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.

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.

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

Time is one of the most important components of life

Without accepting ourselves, we try to meet requirements of society and do everything to be accepted

A garden is never finished. In that sense it is like the human world and all human undertakings.

Praises of the unworthy are felt by ardent minds as robberies of the deserving.

I invent nothing. I rediscover.

I believe that we as the leader of the Free World must provide important leadership on the ethical parameters, the ethical constraints that this research requires.

I loved politics and, I confess, I enjoyed politicians immensely.

Selling is nothing more than asking questions and waiting for an answer.

Of course I base all my election promises and policies on opinion polls

If what passed as nonviolence does not enable people to protect the honour of women, or if it does not enable women to protect their own honour, it is not nonviolence.