Wisdom is the mind what health is to the body.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Strength and weakness of mind are misnomers; they are really nothing but the good or bad health of our bodily organs.
Sobriety is concern for one's health - or limited capacity.
As the great ones of this world are unable to bestow health of body or peace of mind, we always pay too high a price for any good they can do.
The sicknesses of the soul have their ups and downs like those of the body; what we take to be a cure is most often merely a respite or change of disease.
The health of the soul is something we can be no more sure of than that of the body; and though a man may seem far from the passions, yet he is in as much danger of falling into them as one in a perfect state of health of having a fit of sickness.
To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness, indeed.
It is a wearisome disease to preserve health by too strict a regimen.
The distempers of the soul have their relapses, as many and as dangerous as those of the body; and what we take for a perfect cureis generally either an abatement of the same disease or the changing of that for another.
