“Walking is a man's best medicine.”
“To do nothing is also a good remedy.”
“Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease”
“Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.”
“What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.”
“Life is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment treacherous, judgment difficult.”
“If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.”
“I swear... to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.”