From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations

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.

It is more important to know the person who has the condition than it is to know the condition the person has.

The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.

And he will manage the cure best who has foreseen what is to happen from the present state of matters.

The art is long, life is short

All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.