“Don't you remember that love, like medicine, is only the art of encouraging nature?”
“The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.”
“Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity. ”
“...It is only obvious that teaching is a very special art, sharing withonly two other arts-argriculture and medicin-an exceptionally important characteristic.”
“It must be remembered that no art lives by nature, only by acts of voluntary attention on the part of human individuals. When these are not made it ceases to exist.”
“Remember that it's only by going off the track that you get to know the country...And don't, let me beg you, go with that awful tourist idea that Italy's only a museum of antiquities and art. Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvelous than the land.”