It is my nature to thin where others read.

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.

Just because you're in a situation, doesn't mean you have to be that situation. You're not the situation you're in!

Anger is the prelude to courage.

The cauliflower soup sounds so good. And the broccoli-melt sandwich. I've never heard of such a thing.

Basicly what I had to do was do a 7 minute board and pitch it to a room of big wigs from the network and based on that they determined if I would get a short or not.

To God on whom we rely knows what suffering is all about- not merely in the way that God knows everything, but by experience.

Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith.

Saying and doing are two things.

When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.

An instant can crush a brain and change the course of life, the course of history.

It is the breaking of life that produces the blessing of life.