Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.

He who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.

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

Health can make money, but money cannot make health.

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

The best quarantine is hygiene.

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

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

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.

The beginning of health lies in knowing the disease.

Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world.

The sick man is the parasite of society.

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