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

Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world.

Health can make money, but money cannot make health.

Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.

If they prescribe a lot of remedies for some sickness or other, it means that the sickness is incurable.

Disease is not of the body but of the place.

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

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

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

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

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

Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren’t so many of them left.

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