~Hatred.~--We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will
not know them because we hate them.--_Colton._
Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should
say, his capacity to hate.--_Beecher._
Love is rarely a hypocrite. But hate! how detect, and how guard against
it. It lurks where you least expect it; it is created by causes that you
can the least foresee; and civilization multiplies its varieties whilst
it favors its disguise; for civilization increases the number of
contending interests, and refinement renders more susceptible to the
least irritation the cuticle of self-love.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
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._