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

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

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

Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.

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

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

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

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

Diseases, at least many of them, are like human beings. They are born, they flourish, and they die.

The best quarantine is hygiene.

Diseases are not immutable entities but dynamic social constructions that have biographies of their own.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness.