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

Disease is nothing else but an attempt on the part of the body to rid itself of morbific matter.

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.

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

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.

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.