The smallest feline is a masterpiece.

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

Instrumental or mechanical science is the noblest and above all others, the most useful.

If you throw a stone in a pond... the waves which strike against the shores are thrown back towards the spot where the stone struck; and on meeting other waves they never intercept each other's course... In a small pond one and the same stroke gives birth to many motions of advance and recoil.

The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain

While you are alone you are entirely your own master and if you have one companion you are but half your own, and the less so in proportion to the indiscretion of his behavior.

Those who fall in love with practice without science are like a sailor who enters a ship without a helm or a compass, and who never can be certain whither he is going.