“First of all a natural talent is required; for when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place.”

Walking is a man’s best medicine.

The art has three factors, the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. The patient must cooperate with the physician in combatting the disease.

There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.

The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.

Look to the seasons when choosing your cures

The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.

War is the only proper school of the surgeon.

Who could have foretold, from the structure of the brain, that wine could derange its functions?

…all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.

Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.

Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient’s belief.

Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.

Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things–to help, or at least to do no harm.

And if incision of the temple is made on the left, spasm seizes the parts on the right, while if the incision is on the right, spasm seizes the parts on the left.

From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations

My dad Alan loved Westerns and we watched them together when there wasn’t much else on TV. I had toy cowboys I’d call Richard Widmark or Gregory Peck and we’d restage the Battle of the Alamo.

What someone else does or doesn’t do has no effect on me and what I do.

After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else.

I’m just trying to be myself. I’m not trying to be anyone else.

Everything else is relative levels of hell.

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

I am in the fighting game. I don’t care about anything else. I don’t watch the news, I don’t care about politics,

The trouble is, as soon as you’ve chosen somebody it obscures anybody else you might have thought of.