The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.

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

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

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food

It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.

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

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