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

The best quarantine is hygiene.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

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

Disease is not of the body but of the place.

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

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

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

If we wait for a pandemic to appear, it will be too late to prepare.

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

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

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

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