Though physician to others, yet himself full of sores

Every invalid is a physician.

A good friend is better than a near relation.

The way was through lanes bounded by elms, which, though not yet in full leaf, were so closely interwoven in the bank with a luxurious growth of holly, that nothing was to be seen beyond them - till on a sudden the road, ascending a steep hollow way, opened to a kind of common field, forming the top of a high promontory, commanding an immense extent of the sea, and, for many miles, the indented cliffs of the western coast.

A surgeon should be young a physician old.

Though this be madness, yet there is method