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.

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.

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.

If you have to think about it twice you probably shouldn't do it

Bad is the new good - you've got my permission to stick that on one of your t-shirts.

This story about good food begins in a quick-stop convenience market.

Never ignore the elephant in the room. That’s rude

Not every daughter mourns the loss of a mother.

Train your child in the way in which you know you should have gone yourself.

Accept yourself as you are right now; an imperfect, changing, growing and worthy person.

Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.

I'm a spade, you're an ofay. Let's play.