Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of read more

Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.

O, he's a limb that has but a disease:
Mortal, to cut it off; to cure it, easy.

O, he's a limb that has but a disease:
Mortal, to cut it off; to cure it, easy.

It is dainty to be sick, if you have leisure and convenience for it.

It is dainty to be sick, if you have leisure and convenience for it.

The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith

The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith

Some remedies are worse than the disease itself.
[Lat., Graviora quaedam sunt remedia periculis.]

Some remedies are worse than the disease itself.
[Lat., Graviora quaedam sunt remedia periculis.]

The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of read more

The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.

The canker which the trunk conceals is revealed by the leaves,
the fruit, or the flower.
[It., D'ogni read more

The canker which the trunk conceals is revealed by the leaves,
the fruit, or the flower.
[It., D'ogni pianta palesa l'aspetto
Il difetto, che il tronco nasconde
Per le fronde, dal frutto, o dal fior.]

Sickness seizes the body from bad ventilation.
[Lat., Aere non certo corpora languor habet.]

Sickness seizes the body from bad ventilation.
[Lat., Aere non certo corpora languor habet.]

As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath,
Receives the lurking principle of death,
The younger disease, read more

As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath,
Receives the lurking principle of death,
The younger disease, that must subdue at length,
Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.