Life and Literature Part 60

830

We are happy in this world just in proportion as we make others happy.

831

A HAPPY COUPLE.

I think you the happiest couple in the world; for you are not only happy in one another, but happy in yourselves, and by yourselves.

--_Congreve._

832

Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven; and every countenance bright with smiles, and glowing with innocent enjoyment, is a mirror transmitting to others the rays of a supreme and ever-s.h.i.+ning benevolence.

--_Was.h.i.+ngton Irving._

833

To rejoice in the happiness of others is to make it our own; to produce it, is to make it more than our own. There is happiness in the very wish to make others happy.

--_Dr. Chalmers._

834

Unmixed happiness is not to be found in this world.

835

Hatred always hurts the hater most of all.

836

It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.

--_Tacitus._

837

I am almost frozen by the distance you are from me.

838

If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.

839

Health is rightly appreciated only when we are sick.

--_German Proverb._

840

A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.

841

He that is well does not know how rich he is.

Better a healthy beggar, than a sick king.

--_German Proverb._

842

It is better to have less wealth and more health.

843

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

844

HEALTH.

Thou chiefest good, Bestow'd by Heaven, but seldom understood.

--_Lucan._

845

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is, by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.

--_Sir W. Temple._