Disease is nothing else but an attempt on the part of the body to rid itself of morbific matter.

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.

Where there is darkness, there is chaos and confusion, but when light shines, things are set in order and the light rules and governs.

Your smile can becomes a quote for a change

I'm a '70s mom, and my daughter is a '90s mom. I know a lot of women my age who are real computer freaks.

There is not a man in power at our Bethlehem steel works today who did not begin at the bottom and work his way up.

The human mind naturally adapts itself to the position it occupies.

Successful people keep moving, even when they are discouraged and have made mistakes.

I am not a neoconservative. I am pro-American.

The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person.

I only did my duty, and what I was told to do as well as I could.

Divas do it, golfers do it, pilots do it, violists do it, sprinters do it, soldiers do it, surgeons do it, astronauts do it...only business people think it isn't necessary to train.