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

Physick, says Sydenham, is not to bee learned by going to Universities, but hee is for taking apprentices; and says one had as good send a man to Oxford to learn shoemaking as practising physick.

It is my nature to thin where others read.

Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium.

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

I confidently affirm that the greater part of those who are supposed to have died of gout, have died of the medicine rather than the disease - a statement in which I am supported by observation.

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