The spirit only can teach. Not any profane man, not any sensual, not any liar, not any slave can teach, but only he can give, who ...has; he only can create, who is. The man on whom the soul descends, through whom the soul speaks, alone can teach. Courage, piety, love, wisdom, can teach; and every man can open his door to these angels, and they shall bring him the gift of tongues. But the man who aims to speak as books enable, as synods use, as the fashion guides, and as interest commands, babbles. Let him hush.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I will use treatment to help the sick according to my ability and judgment, but never with a view to injury and wrongdoing. Neithe...r will I administer a poison to anybody when asked to do so, nor will I suggest such a course. Similarly, I will not give to a woman a pessary to cause abortion. I will keep pure and holy both my life and my art.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I swear ... to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of mo...ney to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have been too long acquainted with human nature to have great regard for human testimony; and a very great degree of probability..., supported by various concurrent circumstances, conspiring in one point, will have much greater weight with me, than human testimony upon oath, or even upon honour; both of which I have frequently seen considerably warped by private views.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The suggestion of denying any measure of their full political rights to such a great group of our population as the colored people... is one which, however it might be received in some other quarters, could not possibly be permitted by one who feels a responsibility for living up to the traditions and maintaining the principles of the Republican Party. Our Constitution guarantees equal rights to all of our citizens, without discrimination on account of race or color. I have taken my oath to support that Constitution.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an ala...rming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body, they are ready to make oath upon the Evangelists, at any hour of the day or night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous of all countries on the habitable globe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »