Animals have one thing that puts them way ahead of people: they don't dissemble, and you don't have to pretend in front of them.
Nature is a volume of which God is the author.
All we know is still infinitely less than all that remains unknown.
I profess to learn and to teach anatomy not from books but from dissections, not from the tenets of Philosophers but from the fabric of Nature.
The heart is the household divinity which, discharging its function, nourishes, cherishes, quickens the whole body, and is indeed the foundation of life, the source of all action.
Civilization is only a series of victories against nature.
Moderate labor of the body conduces to the preservation of health, and cares many initial diseases.
The working of great institutions is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self interest, carelessness and sheer mistake. Only a residual fraction is thought.
Life is good, without it we'd all be dead.
At times everything grows misty and dark before my eyes, and I feel that the strength of my whole body is oozing away through my finger tips.
I spit into the face of time that has transfigured me