It takes as much time and trouble to pull down a falsehood as to…

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

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

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

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.

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