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

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

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

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

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

The best quarantine is hygiene.

We should always presume the disease to be curable until its own nature proves it otherwise.

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

He who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.

The beginning of health lies in knowing the disease.

The sick man is the parasite of society.

I have learned much from disease which life could never have taught me anywhere else.

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