Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.

Nature itself is the best physician.

Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.

Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.

About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen.

Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.

The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.