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

We may ascertain the worth of the human race, since for its sake God's Only-begotten Son became man, and thereby ennobled the nature that he took upon him.

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.

Acute [diseases] meaning those of which God is the author, chronic meaning those that originate in ourselves.

In writing the history of a disease, every philosophical hypothesis whatsoever, that has previously occupied the mind of the author, should lie in abeyance.

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

Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.