The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.

Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.

There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.

Sport is a preserver of health.

Many admire, few know.

The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.

It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.