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

Health can make money, but money cannot make health.

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

Death from the bubonic plague is rated, with crucifixion, among the nastiest human experiences of all.

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

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.

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

He who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.

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

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

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

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