“In'ards, n. pl. The stomach, heart, soul, and other bowels.”

“I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.”

“I believe that much of the secret of soul-winning lies in having bowels of compassion, in having spirits that can be touched with the feeling of human infirmities.”

“You are the pinch in my heart. The catch in my breath. The reason my stomach tumbles…”

“Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography.”

“Man aspires to govern nature, but the more one studies ecology, the more absurd it seems to speak of any one feature of an organism, or of an organism/environment field, as governing or ruling others. Once upon a time the mouth, the hands, and the feet said to each other, "We do all this work gathering food and chewing it up, but that lazy fellow, the stomach, does nothing. It's high time he did some work too, so let's go on strike!" Whereupon they went many days without working, but soon found themselves feeling weaker and weaker until at last each of them realized that the stomach was their stomach, and that they would have to go back to work to remain alive. But even in physiological textbooks, we speak of the brain, or the nervous system, as "governing" the heart or the digestive tract, smuggling bad politics into science, as if the heart belonged to the brain rather than the brain to the heart or the stomach. Yet it is as true, or false, to say that the brain feeds itself" through the stomach as that the stomach "evolves" a brain at its upper entrance to get more food.”

“Dawn, n. The time when men of reason go to bed. Certain old men prefer to rise at about that time, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach, and otherwise mortifying the flesh.”

“A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.”

“Look down from in high places
Lift up the ground
Without a sound
[…]
Check altitude
Check your heart
'n this cloudless blue
'n this starlight night…”

“Little Alice fell
d
o
w
n
the hOle,
bumped her head
and bruised her soul”