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

Disease is not of the body but of the place.

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

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

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

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

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

The beginning of health lies in knowing the disease.

The best quarantine is hygiene.

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

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

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

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