The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods

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DjVu pp. 57-63: the importance of bodily health for intellectual work; cf. p. 40:

Why is St. Thomas called the Angelic Doctor? Is it only because of his winged genius? No, it is because everything in him was subordinated to his brilliant and holy mind, because his flesh, native to the coasts of the Tyrrhenian Sea, had taken on the whiteness of Carmel and Hermon; because, being chaste, temperate, quick to follow his soaring inspiration, and far from all excess, he was wholly a soul, "an intelligence served by organs," according to the famous definition.

pp. 43-45 (DjVu pp. 66-68): role of an intellectual's wife, mentions 1 Cor. 7's "divisus est " (cf. Theophrastus's "is impossible for anyone to attend to his books and his wife", quoted in St. Jerome's Contra Jovinian)