Gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple. Great kings, emperors, generals, admirals and philosophers have all died of gout.

Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.

The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.

The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than twenty asses laden with drugs.

It is my nature to thin where others read.

We are overwhelmed as it is, with an infinite abundance of vaunted medicaments, and here they add another one.

Read Don Quixote; it is a very good book; I still read it frequently.