The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than twenty asses laden with drugs.

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.

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 man of fifty is responsible for his face.

Did you know that true love asks for nothing? Her Acceptance is the way we pay.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

When I go to Rome, I fast on Saturday, but in Milan I do not. Do you also follow the custom of whatever church you attend, if you do not want to give or receive scandal.

There are no automatic links between poverty and terrorism. Among millions of poor people in the world, only a few turn to terrorism.

This capitalist society has not lasted forever; it's only a few hundred years old.

To stimulate life, leaving it then free to develop, to unfold, herein lies the first task of the teacher.

We are entertainers. We're trying to entertain people.

Visit your soul; don't visit your past.

I've said it once and I'll say it a a hundred times, I'm forty-four years old.