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.

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.

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.

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.

Disease is not of the body but of the place.

In times of pestilence, gaiety and joyousness are most profitable.

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

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

It is strange indeed that the more we learn about how to build health, the less healthy Americans become.