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

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

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

Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.

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

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

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

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

The sick man is the parasite of society.

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

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.

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

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