The first sure symptom of a mind in health
Is rest of heart and pleasure felt at home.
Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness,
And all the comforts that the lowly roof
Of undisturbed retirement, and the hours
Of long uninterrupted evening know.

Books and a garden, it is said, give happiness, yet not perfect happiness, for

The world was sad, the garden was a wild;

And man, the hermit, sigh'd-till woman smil'd.

Domestic happiness, thou only bliss

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Of Paradise that has survived the fall!

Happy is he who owes nothing. Tacitus, the historian of the reigns of Nerva and Trajan, says: Unusual was the happiness of the times, so much so that might think as you would, and might speak as you thought."

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Paley truly observes: "The common course of things is in favour of happiness; happiness is the rule, misery the exception. Were the order reversed, our attention would be called to examples of health and competency, instead of disease and want."

Sydney Smith recommends it as a rule to try to make at least one person happy every day. He says: "Take ten years, and you will have made 3650 persons happy, or brightened a small town, by your contribution to the fund of general joy."

John Howard, the philanthropist, in the midst of his constant perils and dangers, wrote from Riga: "I hope I have sources of enjoyment that depend not on the particular spot I inhabit."

A rightly cultivated mind, under the power of religion and the exercise of beneficent dispositions, affords a ground of satisfaction little affected by here's and there's.

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom,—he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

There's always sunshine somewhere in the world.

A happy thought comes from a happy heart; it will come from no other, but it will go to another.

"Whoso trusteth in the Lord, happy is he."-Prov. xvi. 20.

Health.

HEALTH is wealth. Health is riches to the poor.

"Orandum est ut sit mens sana in sano corpore," wrote Juvenal, a satirical Roman poet, died 128 A.D. We should pray for a sound mind in a sound body.

The golden rule of education is to seek to have mens sana in sano corpore.

Draw physic from the fields in draughts of vital air.
The skies, the air, the morning breezy call,
Alike are free, and full of health to all.

The air is the great physician of the world.

Health confides in it as its most faithful friend; the weak it invigorates, the weary it refreshes.

Great temperance, open air,

Easy labour, little care.

The best of rest is sleep.

Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep.

Deaf to noise and blind to sight-in a good sleep.
Man's rich restorative; his balmy bath,

That supples, lubricates, and keeps in play

The various movements of this nice machine.

There are said to be seven millions of pores in the skin. To keep these open, clean cold water ought to come in contact with every one of them once every day.

From the body's purity, the mind

Receives a sympathetic aid.

Exercise gives health, vigour and cheerfulness, sound sleep and a keen appetite.

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

Let thy mind's sweetness have its operation
Upon thy body, clothes, and habitation.

The sedentary stretch their lazy length
When custom bids, but no refreshment find,-
For none they need: the languid eye, the cheek
Deserted of its bloom, the flaccid, shrunk,
And wither'd muscle, and the vapid soul,
Reproach their own with that Love of Rest
To which he forfeits e'en the Rest he loves.

Let me remember:

Beauty fades and decays, virtue shines and endures.

A lazy man is a sick man. Alternate rest and labour long endure. Let temperance constantly preside,

Our best physician, friend, and guide.

Tho' I look old, yet I am strong and lusty,
For in my youth I never did apply

Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood.

"Reckon up the number of dishes prepared for our tables, and you will no longer marvel," said an old Roman, "at the innumerable diseases to which mortals are subject."

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eat about twice as much as nature requires. Simple diet is bestfor many dishes bring many diseases. One of the maxims of Epicurus was: "Abstain in order to enjoy."

Aristotle says: "Excess and deficiency equally destroy the health of our bodies, while what is proportionate preserves and augments them."

Sound health cometh of moderate eating.

Look to thy mouth: diseases enter there.
Nought like the simple element dilutes.
Wine is like anger, for it makes us strong:
Blind and impatient, and it leads us wrong;

The strength is quickly lost; we feel the error long. O, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!

The goblet I reserve for hours of ease,

I war on water.

Intemperance destroys the strength of our bodies and the vigour of our minds.

Health and a good estate of body are above all gold, and a strong body above infinite wealth.

In these days half our diseases come from the neglect of the body in the overwork of the brain. Health is the greatest of all possessions.

Socrates used to say, it was pleasant to grow old with good health and a good friend.

Preserving the health by too strict a regimen is a wearisome malady.

Health is far from the ungodly, for they keep not God's law.

Holiness.

"HOLINESS, without which no man shall see the Lord."HEB. xii. 14.

Christ comes with a blessing in each hand forgiveness in one and holiness in the other, and never gives either to any one who will not take both.

The fear of man will make us hide sin; but the fear of the Lord will cause us to hate it.

I must indulge no secret wish to be saved without being sanctified.

A holy, heavenly life, spent in the service of God and in communion with Him, is, without doubt, the most pleasant, comfortable life that any one can live in this world.

The only way to be happy is to be holy. Mercies are then perfected when they are sanctified.

It is the wise man who can impart wisdom to others; the good man that can diffuse goodness; the holy man that can diffuse holiness.

Omnipotent energy alone can preserve true holiness.

A holy calling never saved any man without a holy heart; if our tongues only be sanctified, our whole man must be damned. Better it were never to be born after the flesh than not to be born after the Spirit.

Whoever well considers the state of the world and human experience, cannot but conclude that God is more concerned to make men holy than happy; for many are able to rest in their sorrows for the sake of their use and end, but no one finds rest in unholy delights. In sinful pleasure God follows man with a scourge, in sorrow with balm.

Holiness is the Holy Spirit's seal on the renewed heart, the mark of God's children.

It is the great mark of vain professors and lukewarm Christians to have a stronger desire for ultimate salvation than for present holiness.

They who are not made saints in a state of grace will never be saints in glory. The stones which are appointed for that glorious temple above are hewn and polished and prepared for it here; as the stones were wrought and prepared in the mountain for building the temple at Jerusalem.

The holy man and the atheist always talk of religion; the one speaks of what he loves and the other of what he fears. A holy life is the best preparation for a happy death. God's holy commandment" Be ye holy, for I am holy." The outward man must correspond to the inward man.

Come, my heart, draw nigh to God for remission and renovation, with fulness of desire for a full work; come now, this moment, as also to Jesus, for all His cleansing, for washing in His blood, for love, for fidelity. Deliver thyself into His hands, and beg of Him to purge His floor in thee, and make thee pure wheat, fit for His garner. And, O Spirit of Holiness! do Thou bring me, in repentance and faith, to the blood of sprinkling; sanctify my spirit, soul, and body, and baptize me with Thy fire into obedience and love of the truth.

If any one's head or tongue should grow apace, and all the rest of the body not grow, it would certainly make him a monster; and they are no other that are knowing and talkative Christians, and grow daily in these respects, but not at all in holiness of heart and life, which is the proper growth of the children of God.

Nothing can make a man truly great but being truly good, and partaking of God's holiness.

In holiness there is such a sparkling lustre, that whosoever beholds it, must needs be astonished at it; nay, even those that oppose it, cannot but admire it. Holiness carries a graceful majesty along with it, wheresoever or in whomsoever it is truly and sincerely possessed.

Without holiness there can be no such heaven as the New Testament reveals. There is a moral omnipotence in holiness. Argument may be resisted, persuasion and entreaty may be scorned, but a life of holiness is so powerful that nothing can withstand it.

It is the erroneous thought of many that holiness must precede reconciliation to God, instead of following it. True holiness is the effect, not the cause. Holiness is cleanliness of heart. And all who have a clean heart, daily cleansed in the blood of Christ, will daily wash their hands in innocency, will speak a pure language, will daily walk in the way of holiness, and they will daily delight in holy thoughts and holy desires.