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.

May be he is not well.
Infirmity doth neglect all office
Whereto our health is bound.

May be he is not well.
Infirmity doth neglect all office
Whereto our health is bound.

Gold that buys health can never be ill spent,
Nor hours laid out in harmless merriment.

Gold that buys health can never be ill spent,
Nor hours laid out in harmless merriment.

It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.
[Lat., Pars sanitatis velle sanari fruit.]

It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.
[Lat., Pars sanitatis velle sanari fruit.]

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

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

The first wealth is health.

The first wealth is health.

A bodily disease, which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom read more

A bodily disease, which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual past -Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are read more

Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.

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.