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

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

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

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

All the world is topsy-turvy, and it has been topsy-turvy ever since the plague.

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

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

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

The sick man is the parasite of society.

The best quarantine is hygiene.

Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.

Health care delivery is one of the tragedies still in America.

The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.