C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Disease
Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.
Disease is a hot-house plant.
Desperate diseases need desperate cures.
Just disease to luxury succeeds.
Sickness seizes the body from bad ventilation.
He who cures a disease may be the skilfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.
Diseases of the mind impair the bodily powers.
A wounded heart can with difficulty be cured.
It is not the disease but neglect of the remedy which generally destroys life.
Before the curing of a strong disease, even in the instant of repair and health, the fit is strongest.
Decay and disease are often beautiful, like the pearly tear of the shellfish and the hectic glow of consumption.
A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
Diseases crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, shrivel them up like old apples, make them as so many anatomies.
The canter which the trunk conceals is revealed by the leaves, the fruit, or the flower.