Physicians of all men are most happy; what good success they have, the world proclaimeth, and what faults they commit, the earth covereth.
Men who are occupied in the restoration of health to other men, by the joint exertion of skill and humanity, are above all the great of the earth. They even partake of divinity, since to preserve and renew is almost as noble as to create.
VOLTAIRE, "Physicians," Philosophical Dictionary
Every physician almost hath his favourite disease.
HENRY FIELDING, Tom Jones