As to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least, to do no harm.
Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
Life is short, and Art long; the crisis fleeting; experience perilous, and decision difficult.
Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm.
In whatever disease sleep is laborious, it is a deadly symptom; but if sleep does good, it is not deadly.
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.