Brute animals are the most healthy, and they are exposed to all weather, and of men, those are healthiest who are the most exposed.

Body and mind both unemployed, our being becomes a burthen, and every object about us loathsome, even the dearest. Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondria, and that a diseased body.

The most uninformed mind with a healthy body is happier than the wisest valetudinarian.

Health is the requisite after morality