Disease is not of the body but of the place.

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

The beginning of health lies in knowing the disease.

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

Health can make money, but money cannot make health.

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.

The sick man is the parasite of society.

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

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

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

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

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

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