The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.

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.

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.

It feels incredible to be outside when I’m supposed to be inside. The sensation of freedom is intoxicating. - Sara

Life is an ocean and every ocean necessitates right thinking and right action or else sinking becomes the only fate realisable!

Let the spirits guide you, but never let them take you.

Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.

If you look very intensely and slowly things will happen that you never dreamed of before.

My mother believed and my father believed that if I wanted to be president of the United States, I could be, I could be Vice President!

Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquiring youngster: why did these exist, and what could we do about them.

It's about the choices you've just made, and the ones you're about to make; it's about the things you choose to say - today. It's about what you're gonna do after you finish reading this.

All times are dangerous times.

At the end of the day, the key to happiness is taking ultimate responsibility for your reactions to all of your experiences - the good and the chaotic.