The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars.

He who knows nothing loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless. But he who understands also loves, notices, sees. The more knowledge is inherent in a thing, the greater the love.

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

Fasting is the greatest remedy-- the physician within.

What we should be after death, we have to attain in life, i.e. holiness and bliss. Here on earth the Kingdom of God begins.

Medicine is not merely a science but an art. The character of the physician may act more powerfully upon the patient than the drugs employed.

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.