There's scarce a point whereon mankind agree - So well as in their boast of killing me; I boast of nothing, but when I've a mind - I think I can be even with mankind

Your destiny is that of a man, your vows those of a god.

A physician is one who pours drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows less.

Present opportunities are not to be neglected; they rarely visit us twice.

Every one should be his own physician. We ought to assist, and not to force nature. Eat with moderation...Nothing is good for the body but what we can digest. What medicine can procure digestion? Exercise. What will recruit strength? Sleep.

History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.

The malevolence of men revealed itself to his mind in all of its ugliness