Exercise is good for your health, but like everything else it can be overdone.

Filthy water cannot be washed.

For most diagnoses all that is needed is an ounce of knowledge, an ounce of intelligence, and a pound of thoroughness.

He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything.

Hence when a person is in great pain, the cause of which he cannot remove, he sets his teeth firmly together, or bites some substance between them with great vehemence, as another mode of violent exertion to produce a temporary relief. Thus we have the proverb where no help can be has in pain, 'to grin and abide;' and the tortures of hell are said to be attended with 'gnashing of teeth.'Describing a suggestion of the origin of the grin in the present form of a proverb, 'to grin and bear it.'

If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill.

If you intend to give a sick man medicine, let him get very ill first, so that he may see the benefit of your medicine.

In the midst of your illness you will promise a goat, but when you have recovered, a chicken will seem sufficient.

Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise. 'Necessity is the mother of invention' is a silly proverb. 'Necessity is the mother of futile dodges' is much closer to the truth. The basis of growth of modern invention is science, and science is almost wholly the outgrowth of pleasurable intellectual curiosity.

Loss of teeth and marriage spoil a woman's beauty.

Love and pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid.

No man is a good physician who has never been sick.

Poison should be tried out on a frog.

The California climate makes the sick well and the well sick, the old young and the young old.

Visitor’s footfalls are like medicine; they heal the sick.

When fate arrives the physician becomes a fool.