Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

The best quarantine is hygiene.

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

He who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.

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

Health care delivery is one of the tragedies still in America.

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

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

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

The sick man is the parasite of society.

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

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

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