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.

He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.

To be sick is to enjoy monarchal prerogatives.

It is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature.

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

Keep away from physicians. It is all probing and guessing and pretending with them. They leave it to nature to cure in her own time, but they take the credit. As well as very fat fees.

No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.

The best physician is he who can distinguish the possible from the impossible.

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

All pain is one malady with many names.

Well now, there’s a remedy for everything except death.

The only places where American medicine can fully live up to its possibilities are the teaching hospitals.