"It is not wealth or ancestry, but rather the spirit of the age, which has raised me to the highest pinnacle of fame."

"Only by understanding the wisdom of natural foods and their effects on the body, shall we attain mastery of disease and pain, which shall enable us to relieve the burden of mankind."

"Nature is nowhere accustomed more openly to display her secret mysteries than in cases where she shows tracings of her workings apart from the beaten paths; nor is there any better way to advance the …"

"I have often wondered and even laughed at those who fancied that everything had been so consummately and absolutely investigated by an Aristotle or a Galen or some other mighty name, that nothing coul…"

"It is better to know a little perfectly than to know much imperfectly."