Part 43

Hatred is like fire--it makes even light rubbish deadly.--George Eliot.

~Health.~--Be it remembered that man subsists upon the air more than upon his meat and drink; but no one can exist for an hour without a copious supply of air. The atmosphere which some breathe is contaminated and adulterated, and with its vital principles so diminished, that it cannot fully decarbonize the blood, nor fully excite the nervous system.--Thackeray.

Those hypochondriacs, who, like Herodius, give up their whole time and thoughts to the care of their health, sacrifice unto life every noble purpose of living; striving to support a frail and feverish being here, they neglect an hereafter; they continue to patch up and repair their mouldering tenement of clay, regardless of the immortal tenant that must survive it; agitated by greater fears than the Apostle, and supported by none of his hopes, they "die daily."--Colton.

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.--Bulwer-Lytton.

Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures, of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly.--Johnson.

There are two things in life that a sage must preserve at every sacrifice, the coats of his stomach and the enamel of his teeth. Some evils admit of consolations: there are no comforters for dyspepsia and the toothache.--Bulwer-Lytton.

~Heart.~--The heart is like the tree that gives balm for the wounds of man only when the iron has pierced it.--Chauteaubriand.

The heart is an astrologer that always divines the truth.--Calderon.

There are treasures laid up in the heart,--treasures of charity, piety, temperance, and soberness. These treasures a man takes with him beyond death when he leaves this world.--Buddhist Scriptures.

In aught that tries the heart, how few withstand the proof!--Byron.

The hearts of pretty women are like bonbons, wrapped up in enigmas.--J. Petit Senn.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.--Dickens.

To judge human character rightly, a man may sometimes have very small experience, provided he has a very large heart.--Bulwer-Lytton.

The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.--Bossuet.

There are chords in the human heart, strange, varying strings, which are only struck by accident; which will remain mute and senseless to appeals the most passionate and earnest, and respond at last to the slightest casual touch. In the most insensible or childish minds there is some train of reflection which art can seldom lead, or skill assist, but which will reveal itself, as great truths have done, by chance, and when the discoverer has the plainest and simplest end in view.--Dickens.

A willing heart adds feathers to the heel, and makes the clown a winged Mercury.--Joanna Baillie.

Some people's hearts are shrunk in them like dried nuts. You can hear 'em rattle as they walk.--Douglas Jerrold.

~Heaven.~--The love of heaven makes one heavenly.--Shakespeare.

Where is heaven? I cannot tell. Even to the eye of faith, heaven looks much like a star to the eye of flesh. Set there on the brow of night, it shines most bright, most beautiful; but it is separated from us by so great a distance as to be raised almost as high above our investigations as above the storms and clouds of earth.--Rev. Dr. Guthrie.

When at eve at the bounding of the landscape the heavens appear to recline so slowly on the earth, imagination pictures beyond the horizon an asylum of hope,--a native land of love; and nature seems silently to repeat that man is immortal.--Madame de Staël.

Few, without the hope of another life, would think it worth their while to live above the allurements of sense.--Atterbury.

Heaven is a place of restless activity, the abode of never-tiring thought. David and Isaiah will sweep nobler and loftier strains in eternity, and the minds of the saints, unclogged by cumbersome clay, will forever feast on the banquet of rich and glorious thought.--Beecher.

~Heroes.~--A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have often made a hero of the same man who, by indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning would have proved a coward.--Chesterfield.

In analyzing the character of heroes it is hardly possible to separate altogether the share of Fortune from their own.--Hallam.

Mankind is not disposed to look narrowly into the conduct of great victors when their victory is on the right side.--George Eliot.

No one is a hero to his valet.--Madame de Sévigné.

~History.~--The Grecian history is a poem, Latin history a picture, modern history a chronicle.--Chauteaubriand.

If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us! But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us!--Coleridge.