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

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

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

The sick man is the parasite of society.

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

The beginning of health lies in knowing the disease.

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

Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.

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

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

Men take diseases, one of another. Therefore let men take heed of their company.

’Tis the destroyer, or the devil, that scatters plagues about the world.

Health can make money, but money cannot make health.