The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Happiness lies in the absorption in some vocation which satisfies the soul.

Shed, as you do your garments, your daily sins, whether of omission or commission, and you will wake a free man, with a new life.