Ralph Waldo Emerson Health Quotations

Perhaps it is the lowest of the qualities of an orator, but it is, on so many occasions, of chief importance,--a certain robust and radiant physical health; or--shall I say?--great volumes of animal heat.

The richest of all lords is Use, And ruddy Health the loftiest Muse. Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, Drink the wild air's salubrity.

When I go into the garden with a spade and dig a bed I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.

Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities.

Thought is the seed of action.

Health is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of air, landscape, and bodily exercise on the mind.

The best part of health is fine disposition

Health and appetite impart the sweetness to sugar, bread and meat.

Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper.

We forget ourselves and our destinies in health, and the chief use of temporary sickness is to remind us of these concerns.