Massage is the only form of physical pleasure to which nature forgot to attach consequences. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Destroy the roots of the healthiest plants, their heads will droop and die. Many excellent qualities of the mind have their roots, in fact, in the body: their summits, which adorn the spiritual being, the mind, will wither, if we neglect the soil of these valuable plants… – C.G. Salzmann, Gymnastics for Youth: or, A Practical Guide to Healthful and Amus

Every man is the builder of a Temple called his body, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. – Henry David Thoreau