As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be?
A man is as old as his arteries.
Acute [diseases] meaning those of which God is the author, chronic meaning those that originate in ourselves.
The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than twenty asses laden with drugs.
Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium.
I confidently affirm that the greater part of those who are supposed to have died of gout, have died of the medicine rather than the disease - a statement in which I am supported by observation.
This is all very fine, but it won't do-Anatomy-botany-Nonsense! Sir, I know an old woman in Covent Garden, who understands botany better, and as for anatomy, my butcher can dissect a joint full as well; no, young man, all that is stuff; you must go to the bedside, it is there alone you can learn disease! Comment to Hans Sloane on Robert Boyle's letter of introduction describing Sloane as a 'ripe scholar, a good botanist, a skilful anatomist'.
A bad day can tell you more about yourself than a good day.
Guilt is a supreme waste of time and energy.
I have a very big apartment in Paris but you can't really move around there anymore; piles of books everywhere. I don't want any more books. I have too many books; sometimes I have to buy another copy of a book that I know I have somewhere in my house or office because I can't find it.
Students who don't want to get anywhere are sure to get somewhere.