“Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness
“I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning
“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
“Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder
“A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
“Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey
“As a remedy against all ills; poverty, sickness, and melancholy only one thing is absolutely necessary; a liking for work
“People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains
“In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known -- no wonder, then, that I return the love
“Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis