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

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

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

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

You can’t find the soul with a scalpel.

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

I am dying with the help of too many physicians.

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

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

Because the newer methods of treatment are good, it does not follow that the old ones were bad: for if our honorable and worshipful ancestors had not recovered from their ailments, you and I would not be here today.

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.

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.”

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