My poor are my best patients. God pays for them.

- Herman Boerhaave

The surest method against scandal is live it down in well-doing.

- Herman Boerhaave

A disease which new and obscure to you, Doctor, will be known only after death; and even then not without an autopsy will you examine it with exactin…

- Herman Boerhaave

For chemistry is no science form'd à priori; 'tis no production of the human mind, framed by reasoning and deduction: it took its rise from a number …

- Herman Boerhaave

Generation by male and female is a law common to animals and plants.

- Herman Boerhaave

I never think it necessary to repeat calumnies; they are sparks, which, if you do not blow them, will go out of themselves.

- Herman Boerhaave

The great seal of truth is simplicity.

- Herman Boerhaave

The surest method against scandal is to live it down by perseverance in well-doing, and by prayer to God that He would cure the distempered mind of t…

- Herman Boerhaave

It were indeed to be wish'd that our art had been less ingenious, in contriving means destructive to mankind; we mean those instruments of war, which…

- Herman Boerhaave