Careful Words

healthy (adj.)

  Blessed is the healthy nature; it is the coherent, sweetly co-operative, not incoherent, self-distracting, self-destructive one!

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881): Sir Walter Scott. London and Westminster Review, 1838.

Early to bed and early to rise,

Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790): Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757.