Of all the remedies it has pleased almighty God to give man to relieve his suffering, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium.

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.

If we were in a room full of art, I would stare at her.

Making a difference is a point of view. For a universe, you can be a simple individual. But for some individual, you can transform "your universe".

Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.

Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment.

It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.

Good artists exist in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

When Doing becomes infused with the timeless quality of being, that is success

No one stands taller in the climb to success than when he bends over to help up someone else.

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