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.

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

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

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

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

Men worry over the great number of diseases, while doctors worry over the scarcity of effective remedies.

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

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

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

Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.

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

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