The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it

Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.

Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.

All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.

He who wishes to be a surgeon should go to war.

Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs, and tears.