How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle? – Katherine Mansfield, Bliss and Other Stories
The lungs have been usually regarded as the great fire-place of the human system; but whether or not this is so, the stronger the lungs are the better, without a doubt. – William Andrus Alcott (1798–1859), The Physiology of Marriage, 1855 [On or
Our body is a machine for living. It is geared towards it; it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself; it will be more effective than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies. – Leo Tolstoy
An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable. – Alan Greenspan
