1314
The meals which are eaten in company are always better digested than
those which are taken in solitude.
--_Dr. Combe._
1315
The poor man must walk to get meat for his stomach, the rich man to get
a stomach for his meat.
1316
Johnson said melancholy people were apt to fly to intemperance for
relief, but that it sunk them much deeper in misery. He observed, that
laboring men who work hard and live sparingly, are seldom or never
troubled with low spirits.
--_Boswell's Johnson._
1317
Everyone complains of his memory, and no one complains of his judgment.
--_Rochefoucauld._
1318
By attention ideas are _registered_ on the memory.
1319
An old deacon was accustomed to offer this prayer: "Help us to forget
what we ought not to remember, and to remember what we ought not to
forget."
--_Weekly Paper._
1320
What nicer, what sweeter, than--
The remembrance of a past in boyhood's village days without regret!
1321
So many we find to be well fed but ill taught.
1322
_The Greatest Men Arose from the People._--The greatest scholars, poets,
orators, philosophers, warriors, statesmen, inventors, and improvers of
the arts, arose from the people. If we had waited till courtiers had
invented the arts of printing, clockmaking, navigation, and a thousand
others, we should probably have continued in darkness till this hour.
1323
I would as soon attempt to entice a star
To perch upon my finger; or the wind
To follow me like a dog--as try to make
Some people do what they ought.
1324