If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and wicked, how ineffectual we are – like fishes not meant to swim. – Cyril Connolly
The body is the souls poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam. – Robert Herrick
There is but one temple in the universe and that is the body of man. – Novalis
The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation. – George Santayana
Time was when I despised the body: But then I saw the God within. The Body I relaised is the Lords temple; And so I began preserving it with care infinite. – Thirumoolar
