As a rule, those who think least of their bodies enjoy the best health.
-Ralph W. Trine
If I choose abstraction over reality, it is because I find it the lesser chaos.
-Robert Brault
Each man is a microcosm of the universe. Your body is made of all the elements of the world. Nature supplied all the ingredients that make your body, which means that the universe made you by donating itself. You could accurately say that you are a small walking universe that can move, whereas the cosmic universe is stationary.
Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.
-Alain De Botton