He who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.

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

Disease is not of the body but of the place.

Health can make money, but money cannot make health.

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

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

Diseases, at least many of them, are like human beings. They are born, they flourish, and they die.

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

We should always presume the disease to be curable until its own nature proves it otherwise.

The best quarantine is hygiene.

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.

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

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