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

The best quarantine is hygiene.

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

Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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