“Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.
“Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough
“The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides
“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.