But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor.

The road to the heart is the ear

It is up to us to cultivate our garden.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

If mankind were born tomorrow it would divide into groups; each would scramble to invent their one and only god, and set about butchering each-other.

When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.

Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. -Francois