The best quarantine is hygiene.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress.

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

Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world.

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

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

Disease is not of the body but of the place.