
“Cheerfulness is…the best promoter of health.”
No. 387 (24 May 1712).
The Spectator (1711–1714)
Source: Vegetable Diet (1838), p. 240
“Cheerfulness is…the best promoter of health.”
No. 387 (24 May 1712).
The Spectator (1711–1714)
“Preserving your health by too strict a diet is a tedious illness.”
C'est une ennuyeuse maladie que de conserver sa santé par un trop grand régime.
Maxim 72 of the Maximes supprimées.
Later Additions to the Maxims
George Dennison Prentice http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/4820, in Prenticeana (1860)
Misattributed
“Perfect health, like perfect beauty, is a rare thing; and so, it seems, is perfect disease.”
Infertility Counseling: A Comprehensive Handbook for Clinicians - Page 179 by Linda Hammer Burns, Sharon N. Covington - Medical - 2000.
Collected Works
Interview, 1994; as quoted in Souls Like Ourselves by Andrea Wiebers and David Wiebers (Rochester, MN: Sojourn Press, 2000), p. 51.
“The fleshless diet contributes to health and to a suitable endurance of hard work in philosophy.”
1, 2, 1
On Abstinence from Killing Animals
“Perfect health depends upon perfect circulation.”
Vol. 2, p. 531
Testimonies for the Church (1855 - 1868)
Letter (21 February 1952); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker
“Praise is the best diet for us, after all.”
Vol. I, ch. 9
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855)