“Nature itself is the best physician.”

Divine is the task to relieve pain

Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure.

Sometimes give your services for nothing.

Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.

Walking is man’s best medicine.

Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.

And if this were so in all cases, the principle would be established, that sometimes conditions can be treated by things opposite to those from which they arose, and sometimes by things like to those from which they arose.

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?

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

Good to forgive, Best to forget.

Best be yourself, imperial, plain, and true.

If a man really loves a woman, of course he wouldn’t marry her for the world if he were not quite sure that he was the best person she could possibly marry.

My objectives are very limited. I want to do the best I can with the talent God gave me. I hope to goodness that every novel I do gets better and better, not worse and worse.

Grow old with me. The best is yet to be. The last of life for which the first was made.

Absence was always your best side.

Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.