Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
“It is no use asking me or anyone else how to dig... Better to go and watch a man digging, and then take a spade and try to do it.”
“The idea of infection began to be taken far more seriously than it ever had before. Hospitals transformed themselves in response to the new plague - sometimes for the better, but often for the worse, as when, in fear, they cast their ulcerated patients out into the streets.”