If the mind, that rules the body, ever so far forgets itself as to trample on its slave, the slave is never generous enough to forgive the injury, but will rise and smite the oppressor. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies. – Frank Gillette Burgess

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

What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful that the garment with which it is clothed? – Michelangelo