What timid man does not avoid contact with the sick, fearing lest he contract a disease so near?

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

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

He who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.

Health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress.

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

All the world is topsy-turvy, and it has been topsy-turvy ever since the plague.

The beginning of health lies in knowing the disease.

Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.

Death from the bubonic plague is rated, with crucifixion, among the nastiest human experiences of all.

I have learned much from disease which life could never have taught me anywhere else.

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

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