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

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

He who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.

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

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

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

The beginning of health lies in knowing the disease.

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

The best quarantine is hygiene.

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

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

I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.

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