Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.

Of several bodies, all equally large and equally distant, that which is most brightly illuminated will appear to the eye nearest and largest.

Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds.

Feathers shall raise men even as they do birds towards heaven :- That is by letters written with their quills.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

A wave is never found alone, but is mingled with as many other waves as there are uneven places in the object where the said wave is produced.

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.