Fever itself is Nature's instrument.

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.

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.

I grew up cursing a lot. It felt natural. My parents told me to stop.

An article on playwrights in the Daily Mail , listed according to Hard Left, Soft Left, Hard Right, Soft Right and Centre. I am not listed. I should probably come under Soft Centre.

Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou will lose him.

Being a king, emperor, or president is mighty small potatoes compared to being a mother.

I feel like I'm truly and genuinely proud and unafraid. I'm not scared of who I am.

In addition the bill would expand an existing law "conscience clause" that protects physician training programs that refuse to provide training for abortion procedures.

She cried like a person whose heart is broken and wondered how, when two people loved each other, there could be such a broken heart.

After a few days, I mused, I would have no trouble. Whoever heard of a revolution of fat men?

I feel ghostly unreal until I become somebody else again on the screen.

There should be at least a room or some corner where no one will find you and disturb you or notice you.