Abdicate, v.: to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach. – Author Unknown

Yet this is health: To have a body functioning so perfectly that when its few simple needs are met it never calls attention to its own existence. – Bertha Stuart Dyment

Hormones, vitamines, stimulants and depressives are oils upon the creaky machinery of life. Principal item, however, is the machinery. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

He felt it, he said, an honor to wash his face, being, as it was, the temple of the Spirit. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1838 journal, about Jones Very