It would be a great thing to understand pain in all its meanings

The diagnosis of disease is often easy, often difficult, and often impossible.

Beware of language, for it is often a great cheat.

Truth in all its kinds is most difficult to win; and truth in medicine is the most difficult of all.

There is nothing so captivating as new knowledge.

The practice of physic is jostled by quacks on the one side, and by science on the other.

We should always presume the disease to be curable, until its own nature prove it otherwise.