Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense,
Lie in three words, health, peace and competence:
But health consists with temperance alone;
And peace, O Virtue! peace is all thy own.
—Pope.
O blessed Health! thou art above all gold and treasure; 'tis thou who enlargest the soul, and openest all its powers to receive instruction, and to relish virtue. He that has thee has little more to wish for, and he that is so wretched as to want thee, wants everything with thee.—Sterne.
People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding up a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy.—Sterne.
Health and good humor are to the human body like sunshine to vegetation.—Massillon.
One means very effectual for the preservation of health is a quiet and cheerful mind, not afflicted with violent passions or distracted with immoderate cares.—John Ray.
The requirements of health, and the style of female attire which custom enjoins, are in direct antagonism to each other.—Abba Goold Woolson.
For life is not to live, but to be well.—Martial.
From labor health, from health contentment springs.—Beattie.
In these days half our diseases come from neglect of the body in overwork of the brain—Lytton.
The rule is simple: Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy.—Franklin.