Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.

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

We should always presume the disease to be curable until its own nature proves it otherwise.

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

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

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

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

What timid man does not avoid contact with the sick, fearing lest he contract a disease so near?

Disease is not of the body but of the place.

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

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

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

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