If a lot of cures are suggested for a disease it means that the disease is incurable.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

—Anton Chekhov

To advise is not to compel.

—Anton Chekhov

There is nothing new in art except talent.

—Anton Chekhov

We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

—Anton Chekhov

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

—Anton Chekhov

Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.

—Napoleon Bonaparte

There is no alternative medicine. There is only medicine that works and medicine that doesn't work.

—John Diamond

In medicine, as in statecraft and propaganda, words are sometimes the most powerful drugs we can use.

—Sara Murray Jordan

In the sick room, ten cents' worth of human understanding equals ten dollars' worth of medical science.

—Martin H. Fischer