"You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart."
"Physicians are the cobblers, rather the botchers, of men's bodies; as the one patches our tattered clothes, so the other solders our diseased flesh."
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Source: John Ford (1985). “The Lover's Melancholy”, p.66, Manchester University Press
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