My definition of a sport is that it’s a physical activity that involves competition. Since bodybuilders certainly train and then compete, we are certainly a sport.

Democracy encourages the taste for physical gratification

Man’s characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social.

Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.