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.

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

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

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

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

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

Hygienic law, like martial law, supersedes rights in crises.

Disease is not of the body but of the place.

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

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

Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.

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

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