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.

In writing the history of a disease, every philosophical hypothesis whatsoever, that has previously occupied the mind of the author, should lie in abeyance.

I am a big believer that orderliness begets wealth.

Yes, there are lots of individual exceptions. But no one has ever done a study about voting intention without ascertaining that the biggest determining factor is your income and your wealth.

In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.