Let the young know they will never find a more interesting, more instructive book than the patient himself.

Doctors don’t know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in spirit.

How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort in a hospital.

The doctor occupies a seat in the front row of the stalls of the human drama, and is constantly watching and even intervening in the tragedies, comedies, and tragicomedies which form the raw material of the literary art.

I have yet, I believe, some years in store, for I have a good state of health and a happy mind, and I take care of both by nourishing the first with temperance and the latter with abundance. This, I believe, you will allow to be the true philosophy of life.

The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.

In the name of Hippocrates doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Physician, heal yourself: thus you help your patient too. Let his best help be to see with his own eyes the man who makes himself well.

The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man’s body.

Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, and sloth, or the Gout will seize you.

A miracle drug is any drug that will do what the label says it will do.

You can’t find the soul with a scalpel.

I am dying with the help of too many physicians.