The best quarantine is hygiene.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

Death from the bubonic plague is rated, with crucifixion, among the nastiest human experiences of all.

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

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

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

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

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

He who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.

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

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

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

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