The worst of all diseases is a nervous ability.

One might say, for example, that a patient has a kind of St Vitus's dance; a kind of dropsy; a kind of nerve fever; a kind of ague. One would never say, however (to end once and for all the confusion of these names) "He has St. Vitus's dance," "He has nerve fever," "He has dropsy," "He has ague," since there simply are not any fixed, unchanging diseases to be known by such names.

Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

He who considers disease results to be the disease itself, and expects to do away with these as diseases, is insane. It is an insanity in medicine, an insanity that has grown out of the milder forms of mental disorder in science, crazy whims.

Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.

We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.