“I'm not a garden expert in any sense of the meaning, only someone who blunders about in the shrubbery.”

“Reading books about gardens is a potent pastime; books nourish a gardener's mind in the same way as manure nourishes plants.”

“He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all”

“Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away.”

“the person who takes medicine must recover twice,once from the disease ,and once from the medicine.”

“Think not of the amount to be accomplished, the difficulties to be overcome, or the end to be attained, but set earnestly, at the little task at your elbow, letting that be sufficient for the day.”

“Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.”