The best quarantine is hygiene.

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

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

The sick man is the parasite of society.

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

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

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

Diseases, at least many of them, are like human beings. They are born, they flourish, and they die.

He who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.

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

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

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

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.