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

The best quarantine is hygiene.

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

Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

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

The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.

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

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

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

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

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

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