"The art of medicine consists in amusing..." - Quote by Voltaire

“Translations increase the faults of a work and spoil its beauties.”

“You write your name in the snow Yet say nothing.”

“Who are you, Nature?I live in you;for fifty years I have been seeking you,and I have not found you yet.”

“The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.”

“It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients.”

“Kitchen Physic is the best Physic.”

“Advice to expectant mothers: you must remember that when you are pregnant, you are eating for two. But you must remember that the other one of you is about the size of a golf ball, so let's not go overboard with it. I mean, a lot of pregnant women eat as though the other person they're eating for is Orson Welles.”

“No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.”

“If the body be feeble, the mind will not be strong.”