Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

Evolution has ensured that our brains just aren't equipped to visualise 11 dimensions directly. However, from a purely mathematical point of view it's just as easy to think in 11 dimensions, as it is to think in three or four.

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.

The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.