The spirit is the master; imagination the tool, and the body the plastic material ...The power of the imagination is a great factor in medicine. It may produce diseases in man and in animals, and it may cure them ..Ills of the body may be cured by physical remedies or by the power of the spirit acting through the soul.

Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.

Alterius non sit qui suus esse potest. (Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself.)

Whether wine is a nourishment, medicine or poison is a matter of dosage

A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.

Every physician must be rich in knowledge, and not only of that which is written in books; his patients should be his book, they will never mislead him.

For one country is different from another; its earth is different, as are its stones, wines, bread, meat, and everything that grows and thrives in a specific region.