The physician should look upon the patient as a besieged city and try to rescue him with every means that art and science place at his command.

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

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

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.

You can’t find the soul with a scalpel.

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

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

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

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

When the physician said to him, “You have lived to be an old man,” he said, “That is because I never employed you as my physician.”

To be sick is to enjoy monarchal prerogatives.

There must be quite a few things a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them.

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