健康がまさることは言うまでもない。

health; sound; wholesome

indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; still; and

to excel; to surpass; to exceed; to have an edge; to be superior; to outrival; to outweigh; to preponderate

thing; matter; incident; occurrence; event; something serious; trouble; crisis; circumstances; situation; state of affairs; work; business; affair; after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to; nominalizing suffix; pretending to ...; playing make-believe ...; alias; aka; nickname; alternative name; also known as

topic marker particle; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis

it goes without saying; there is no need to say so, but of course; it is needless to say; it need scarcely be said