The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.

John Stuart Mill

In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.

William Shakespeare

The remedy is worse than the disease.

Francis Bacon

God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.

John Donne

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.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.

Wendell Phillips

Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.

Karl Kraus

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

Henry Ward Beecher

Spiritually good people, pure in heart, who long for the Blessed Sacrament but cannot receive at the time, can receive spiritually... even a hundred times a day, in sickness and in health, with immeasurable grace and profit.

Johannes Tauler