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

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

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

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

Disease is not of the body but of the place.

He who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.

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

Health can make money, but money cannot make health.

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.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

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

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