"I profess both to learn and to teach anatomy not from books but from dissections; not from the tenets of philosophers but from the fabric of nature."

"It is only when we have satisfied ourselves by careful dissection that we can truly understand the nature of things."

"The heart is like a king, sitting in the middle of his kingdom, sending out commands to the periphery."

"The greatest pleasure is to be found in the service of humanity."

"The studious and good and true, never suffer their minds to be warped by the passions of hatred and envy, which unfit men duly to weigh the arguments that are advanced in behalf of truth, or to apprec…"