Those who become enamoured of the art, without having previously applied to the diligent study of the scientific part of it, may be compared to mariners who put to the sea in a ship without rudder or compass and therefore cannot be certain of arriving at the wished for port.

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

We might say that the earth has the spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil.

The moment is timeless.

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

Necessity is a guardian in Nature.

I am still hopeful. A falcon, Time. But the coincidence is probably accidental.