We know nothing of the principle of health, the positive of which pathology is the negative, except from observation and experience. Nothing but observation and experience will teach us the ways to maintain or to bring back the state of health. It is often thought that medicine is the curative process. It is no such thing; medicine is the surgery of functions as surgery proper is that of limbs and organs.

Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.

I stand at the altar of murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.

She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.

The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific diseases; there are specific disease conditions.

I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.