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.

Acute [diseases] meaning those of which God is the author, chronic meaning those that originate in ourselves.

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.

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

A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one.

It means the third rail has seven hundred volts of direct current running through it. Touch it and you're human popcorn

My mind s a center of divine operations

You can understand my inner reactionsmore clearly than me because you can see me as a whole.

Russia will become beacons of hope for the world.

Love people and serve them.

The truly educated man will always speak to the understanding of the most unlearned of his audience.

We do not consider our principles as dogmas contained in books that are said to come from heaven. We derive our inspiration, not from heaven, or from an unseen world, but directly from life.

Sometimes you're ahead of the game and sometimes people don't get it and that's just one of those things you have to accept and carry on.

If you want to be trusted, be trustworthy.