"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 …"

"The heart itself is the first to live and the last to die."

"I have myself, in my dissections, seen the blood flow from the right ventricle into the pulmonary artery, and from the pulmonary vein into the left auricle."

"I have often wondered, and indeed not a little, at the great difference of opinion among anatomists and physicians in the matter of the pulse and the motion of the heart."

"The heart is the seat of the soul."