When man is serene, the pulse of the heart flows and connects, just as pearls are joined together or like a string of red jade, then one can talk about a healthy heart. – The Yellow Emperor’s Canon of Internal Medicine, 2500 B.C.
The heart is not simply suspended in a body but in a culture, a place, a time. – Mimi Guarneri, The Heart Speaks: A Cardiologist Reveals the Secret Language of H
Individual possession is the great entering wedge, which has split society into eight hundred million fragments…. It virtually, practically, and theoretically denies the brotherhood of man. – Hiram Stafford, The Liberator, 8 September 1844
It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake. – Norman Douglas
