All fresh meat is eaten in a state of decay. The process may not have proceeded so far that the dull human nose can discover it, but a carrion bird or a carrion fly can smell it from afar.

I am, I think the only surviving member of the original Battle Creek church. The church was disbanded, with the exception of thirteen members, in 1870.

A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of a carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher's stall passes as food.

Disease is cured by the body itself, not by doctors or remedies.

I believe the Sabbath; I keep the Sabbath.

When we eat vegetarian foods, we needn't worry about what kind of disease our food died from; this makes a joyful meal!

A man that lives on pork, fine-flour bread, rich pies and cakes, and condiments, drinks tea and coffee, and uses tobacco, might as well try to fly as to be chaste in thought.

The power in which we must have faith if we would be well, is the creative and curative power which exists in every living thing.

The tobacco business is a conspiracy against womanhood and manhood. It owes its origin to that scoundrel Sir Walter Raleigh, who was likewise the founder of American slavery.

The influence of coffee in stimulating the genital organs is notorious.

Hamburger steak is carrion, and quite unfit for food except by a turkey buzzard, a hyena, or some other scavenger.

Though the body is itsgenesis, a poem is the vision of a processCarved in space, vision your poor eye's singlearmor against winter spring summer fall

The music of the most popular operas is so highly esteemed, it can stand endless revivals.

So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

I was going to talk about Nicholas Parsons' ignorance, but 18 seconds would be a wholly insufficient time.

If cowardice were not so completely a coward as to be unable to look steadily upon the effects of courage, he would find that there is no refuge so sure as dauntless valor.

Time's waters will not ebb nor stay.

I just think that I associated music with something that was healing and transformative as a kid.

There's nothing like being in the moment, even when that moment isn't captured or shared.

Falling in love is dying by the cupid's bow.

Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do