our good health, nothing more important
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
beauty, bread, nature, strength
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.