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

Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.

The best quarantine is hygiene.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

The beginning of health lies in knowing the disease.

He who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.

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

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