HEALTH

He had had much experience of physicians, and said "the only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd druther not."
- Following the Equator

There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and ever eatable, drinkable and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.
- Mark Twain's Autobiography

Under our free institutions anybody can poison himself that wants to and will pay the price.
- Mark Twain's Autobiography

Postcard from the
Dave Thomson collection