The sick man is the parasite of society.

What timid man does not avoid contact with the sick, fearing lest he contract a disease so near?

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.

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

Health can make money, but money cannot make health.

Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.

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

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.

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

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

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

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