Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The best quarantine is hygiene.

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

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

The sick man is the parasite of society.

Health can make money, but money cannot make health.