
The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
The best medicine for humans is love.
Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress. When I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head.
To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.
The best doctor gives the least medicines.
Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.
The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician.

The greatest discovery in the history of medicine was the discovery of germs.
Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence.
To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
The physician's high and only mission is to restore the sick to health, to cure, as it is termed.
Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

The greatest wealth is health.
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.