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

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

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

Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.

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

The best quarantine is hygiene.

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

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

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.

He who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.

Health can make money, but money cannot make health.

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