He who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.

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

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

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

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

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

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

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

Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.

’Tis a portentous sign / When a man sweats and at the same time shivers.

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

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

Disease is not of the body but of the place.