Ah! what avail the largest gifts of Heaven,
When drooping health and spirits go amiss?
How tasteless read more

Ah! what avail the largest gifts of Heaven,
When drooping health and spirits go amiss?
How tasteless then whatever can be given!
Health is the vital principle of bliss,
And exercise of health.

Health consists with Temperance alone.

Health consists with Temperance alone.

To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.

To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.

Nor love, not honour, wealth nor pow'r,
Can give the heart a cheerful hour
When health is read more

Nor love, not honour, wealth nor pow'r,
Can give the heart a cheerful hour
When health is lost. Be timely wise;
With health all taste of pleasure flies.

Of all the garden herbes none is of greater vertue than sage.

Of all the garden herbes none is of greater vertue than sage.

In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving
health to men.
[Lat., Homines ad read more

In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving
health to men.
[Lat., Homines ad deos nulla re propius accedunt quam salutem
hominibus dando.]

Health that snuffs the morning air.

Health that snuffs the morning air.

When health, affrighted, spreads her rosy wing,
And flies with every changing gale of spring.

When health, affrighted, spreads her rosy wing,
And flies with every changing gale of spring.

A sad soul can kill you quicker than a germ. -John Steinbeck.

A sad soul can kill you quicker than a germ. -John Steinbeck.