A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scientist; he is either, like the surgeon, a craftsman, or, like the physician and the psychologist, an artist. – W. H. Auden

Nature, time and patience are the three great physicians. – H. G. Bohn

As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paid. – Jean De La Bruyere