--_Washington 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._

846

An innocent heart suspects no guile.

--_Portuguese._

847

A BROKEN HEART.

Dr. Mitchell of Philadelphia, in lecturing to his pupils upon the
diseases of the heart, narrated an anecdote to prove that the expression
"broken heart" was not merely figurative. On one occasion, in the early
period of his life, he accompanied, as surgeon, a packet that sailed
from Liverpool to one of the American ports. The captain frequently
conversed with him respecting a lady who had promised to become his
bride on his return from that voyage. Upon this subject he evinced great
warmth of feeling, and showed Dr. Mitchell some costly jewels,
ornaments, etc., which he intended to present as bridal presents. On
reaching his desti