Thomas Sydenham

The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than of twenty asses laden with drugs.

Read Don Quixote; it is a very good book; I still read it frequently.

Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.