“We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.”

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

Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.

Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.

The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.

A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.

All disease begins in the gut.

Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.

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.

I have always been very open and earnest about some things in my life, some things that are not directly in my life, but they’re twirling around me at the time.

Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.

justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.

No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually … I know what we could make of it if people only thought we could dare look at ourselves.

Without ethics man has no future. This is to say mankind without them cannot be itself.

Whether it is the old lady’s fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual.

Odonianism is anarchism. Not the bomb-in-the-pocket stuff, which is terrorism, whatever name it tries to dignify itself with, not the social-Darwinist economic ‘libertarianism’ of the far right; but anarchism, as prefigured in early.

If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God’s poetic justice.