The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also.

If you dry the chestnut, both the barks being taken away, beat them into powder and make the powder up into an electuary with honey, it is a first-rate remedy for cough and spitting of blood.

The roots and herbes beaten and put into new ale or beer and daily drunk, cleareth, strengtheneth and quickeneth the sight of the eyes.

Let your Medicine be somthing of the Nature of the Sign ascending.

Waters are distilled out of Herbs, Flowers, Fruits, and Roots.

In all Diseases, strengthen the part of the Body afflicted.

Such Roots as are soft, your best way is to dry in the Sun, or else hang them up in the Chimney corner upon a string; as for such as are hard you may dry them any where.

No man ought to commit his life into the hands of that Physician, who is ignorant of Astrologic: because he is a Physician of no value.

All Juleps are made for present use, and therefore it is in vain to speak of their duration.

Gather all Leaves in the hour of that Planet that governs them.

For God's sake build not your faith upon Tradition, 'tis as rotten as a rotten Post.

..there is more to life than just pleasure. We want to achieve our happiness and not just experience it.

Wow,” says Peter, “when your guidance counselor tells you to die, you really have problems.

I will veto any effort to get rid of those automatic spending cuts to domestic and defense spending. There will be no easy off ramps on this one.

The Palestinian cause is not a cause for Palestinians only, but a cause for every revolutionary, wherever he is, as a cause of the exploited and oppressed masses in our era.

A lot depends on the starting point.

The keys to the life of the heart lie in reflecting upon the Quran, being humble before Allah in secret, and leaving sins.

Leap, and the net appears.

I choose to see my life moving in different directions, all of them equally good. Some things are even better now than the way they were in my youth.

People are so sensitive about race that they can't hear someone speaking about their life in a very true way, or doing satire or political parody.

Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does.