If there be a human member in which we may justly take pride... that member is the big toe. Philosophers are wont to laud the perfections of our enlarged but simple and but recently emancipated mammalian brain: artists pay homage to certain female bodily contours made for the most part of subcutaneous fat: poets wax eloquent over the simplest biological features when they constitute a part of the human body—but the big toe lacks its champion.
Frederick Wood Jones (1879-1954) in Structure and Function as Seen in the Foot (1944)