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.

Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.

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

Disease is not of the body but of the place.

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

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

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

Diseases are not immutable entities but dynamic social constructions that have biographies of their own.

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

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

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

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

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