If we wait for a pandemic to appear, it will be too late to prepare.

The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.

Everyone who is sick is someone else’s patient zero.

How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man’s self to himself! He is his own exclusive object.

It is strange indeed that the more we learn about how to build health, the less healthy Americans become.

Men take diseases, one of another. Therefore let men take heed of their company.

Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.

Disease is not of the body but of the place.

Health can make money, but money cannot make health.

Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness.

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

In times of pestilence, gaiety and joyousness are most profitable.

I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.