The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.
“International business may conduct its operations with scraps of paper, but the ink it uses is human blood.”
“Was this an old disease, and, if so, which one? If it was new, what did that say about the state of medical knowledge? And in any case, how could physicians make sense of it?”