“What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.”

“My words itch at your ears till you understand them”

“The work for giants...to serve well the guns!”

“A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.”

“The earth, that is sufficient, I do not want the constellations any nearer, I know they are very well where they are, I know they suffice for those who belong to them.”

“Ask God for temp'rance. That's th' appliance only Which your disease requires.”

“If thou couldst, doctor, cast The water of my land, find her disease, And purge it to a sound and pristine health, I would applaud thee to the very echo, That should applaud you again.”

“Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of it.”

“Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man.”

“So musical a discord, such sweet thunder.”

“I really didn't say everything I said.”

“By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.”

“The patient, treated on the fashionable theory, sometimes gets well in spite of the medicine.”

“The physician is happy in the attachment of the families in which he practices. All think he has saved one of them, and he finds himself everywhere a welcome guest, a home in every house.”

“Weed your better judgments of all opinion that grows rank in them.”

“A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his companions by every word. Every opinion reacts on him who utters it. It is a threadball thrown at a mark, but the other end remains on the thrower”

“If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument”