“If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.”

Many admire, few know.

Rest as soon as there is pain.

Life is short, and the Art long; the occasion fleeting; experience fallacious, and judgment difficult. The physician must not only be prepared to do what is right himself, but also to make the patient, the attendants, and externals cooperate.

Nature itself is the best physician.

Health is the greatest of human blessings.

A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.

It is most necessary to know the nature of the spine. One or more vertebrae may or may not go out of place very much and if they do, they are likely to produce serious complications and even death, if not properly adjusted. Many diseases are related to the spine.

There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.

It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. (:)…regimen and temperature, and one period of life to another.

Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.

Healing in a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.

If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.

The physician treats, but nature heals.

Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.

The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.

All excesses are inimical to Nature. It is safer to proceed a little at a time, especially when changing from one regimen to another.

The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

Aim high, and you won’t shoot your foot off.

The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.

He who does not understand astrology is not a doctor but a fool.

No battle is ever won … victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

It may be true that you can’t fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.

The fool who traveled is better off than the wise man who stayed home.

I shouldn’t be saying this – high treason, really – but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren’t fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there.