Hadde jeg vært lege, ville jeg til en mann av min stand og støpning like gjerne ordinert dette som enhver annen medisin for å vekke og holde ham i ånde til høyt oppe i årene og skåne ham for alderdommens angrep enda en stund. Så lenge vi bare er i utkanten av den og pulsen stadig slår -

Experience stands on its own dunghill in medicine, and reason yields it place. Medicine has always professed experience to be the touchstone of its operations.

Adrian, the Emperor, exclaimed incessantly, when dying, "That the crowd of physicians had killed him.

Eloquence is an engine invented to manage and wield at will the fierce democracy, and, like medicine to the sick, is only employed in the paroxysms of a disordered state.

The general order of things that takes care of fleas and moles also takes care of men, if they will have the same patience that fleas and moles have, to leave it to itself.