"Nature is nowhere accustomed to exhibit herself more openly than in her failures."

"I have not hesitated to present to you, my dear reader, the results of my anatomical observations."

"It is not simply by chance that the heart is placed in the midst of the body, as if it were the sun of the microcosm."

"The animal body is a commonwealth, in which every member is a subject to the whole."

"The heart by its pulsific action moves, perfects, and cherishes the blood, and preserves it from corruption and coagulation."