Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.

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

Health can make money, but money cannot make health.

The best quarantine is hygiene.

Disease is not of the body but of the place.

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

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

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

’Tis a portentous sign / When a man sweats and at the same time shivers.

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.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

The sick man is the parasite of society.

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