We think in youth that our bodies are identical to ourselves and have the same interests, but discover later in life that they are heartless companions who have been accidentally yoked with us, and who are as likely as not, in our extreme sickness or old age, to treat us with less mercy than we would have received at the hands of the worst bandits.

If anything is sacred the human body is sacred.

Poor creature though I be, I am the hand and foot of Christ. I move my hand and my hand is wholly Christ's hand, for deity is become inseparably one with me. I move my foot, and it is aglow with God.

The human brain is the highest bloom of the whole organic metamorphosis of the earth.

A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

... if it were the fashion to go naked, the face would be hardly observed.

We should teach our children to think no more of their bodies when dead than they do of their hair when cut off, or of their old clothes when they have done with them.

Whoever considers the study of anatomy I believe will never be an atheist; the frame of man's body and coherence of his parts being so strange and paradoxical that I hold it to be the greatest miracle of Nature.

The most highly prized curve of all is that of the bosom ...

The body says what words cannot.

Your body is the harp of the soul.

Life itself is the real and most miraculous miracle of all. If one had never before seen a human hand and were suddenly presented for the first time with this strange and wonderful thing, what a miracle, what a magnificently shocking and inexplicable and mysterious thing it would be.

Lap, n. One of the most important organs of the female system-an admirable provision for the repose of infancy, but chiefly useful in rural festivities to support plates of cold chicken and heads of adult males.

God made the human body, and it is by far the most exquisite and wonderful organization which has come to us from the Divine hand.

A man's head is his castle.

... the movements of the body reveal the movements of the soul.

The more you use your brain, the more brain you will have to use.

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think we think ...

The human brain is a most unusual instrument of elegant and as yet unknown capacity.