“Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.
“Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too
“It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience
“My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?
“People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
“A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
“Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey