All the world is topsy-turvy, and it has been topsy-turvy ever since the plague.

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

The best quarantine is hygiene.

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

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

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

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

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

The beginning of health lies in knowing the disease.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

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

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

The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.