Judges ought above all to remember the conclusion of the Roman Twelve Tables :The supreme law of all is the weal [weatlh/ well-being] of the people.

I hold every man a debtor to his profession.

Medicine is a science which hath been (as we have said) more professed than laboured, and yet more laboured than advanced: the labour having been, in my judgment, rather in circle than in progression. For I find much iteration, but small addition. It considereth causes of diseases, with the occasions or impulsions; the diseases themselves, with the accidents; and the cures, with the preservation.

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

Before I start painting I have a slightly ambiguous feeling: happiness is a special excitement because unhappiness is always possible a moment later.

Medical men do not know the drugs they use, nor their prices.

In civil business; what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness: and yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness.