First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it

Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.

If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.

All disease starts in the gut.

Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food.

It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.

If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.

Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.

The physician treats, but nature heals.

God you are so good, you gives what is needful.

Without love, life is empty and has no beauty.

No man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge.

For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image.

Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.

It is the quietest and meekest people who are often capable of the most sudden and unexpected violences for the reason that when their control does snap, it goes entirely. (Hercule Poirot)

Traditionally people are on the side of the government all the time.

All of spiritual practice is a matter of relationship: to ourselves, to others, to life's situations.

Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do.

If Ive vividly laid out the narrative, the reader will come to his own conclusions.