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

Hygienic law, like martial law, supersedes rights in crises.

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

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

If they prescribe a lot of remedies for some sickness or other, it means that the sickness is incurable.

Health can make money, but money cannot make health.

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

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

Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren’t so many of them left.

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

If we wait for a pandemic to appear, it will be too late to prepare.

He who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.

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