“Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
“Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness
“If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
“How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital
“Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman
“My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?
“People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.