Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

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

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

’Tis the destroyer, or the devil, that scatters plagues about the world.

The beginning of health lies in knowing the disease.

He who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.

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

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

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.

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

Diseases are not immutable entities but dynamic social constructions that have biographies of their own.

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