“A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.”

“We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones”

“The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do”

“Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong”

“In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer ”

“To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole. ”