because so many persons mistake here and seek for it directly, instead of loving and serving God, and thus obtaining it, that there is so much dissatisfaction and sor

row.

Set happiness before you as an end, no matter in what guise of wealth, or fame, or oblivion even, and you will not attain it. -But renounce it and seek the pleasure of God, and that instant is the birth of your own.-A. S. Hardy.

It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own narrow pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness, such as goes along with true greatness, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves; and this sort of happiness often brings so much pain with it, that we can only tell it from pain by its being what we would choose before everything else, because our souls see it is good.-George Eliot.

Happiness is like the statue of Isis, whose veil no mortal ever raised.-L. E. Landon.

If you cannot be happy in one way, be in another; this facility of disposition wants but little aid from philosophy, for health and good humor are almost the whole affair. Many run about after felicity, like an absent man hunting for his hat, while it is in his hand or on his head.-Sharp.

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

No person is either so happy or so unhappy as he imagines.—Rochefoucauld.

We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy, than in endeavoring to be so ourselves.-Goldsmith.

I see in this world two heaps-one of happiness, and the other of misery. Now, if

second, and add it to the first, I carry a point. I should be glad indeed to do great things; but I will not neglect such little ones as this.-John Newton.

False happiness is like false money; it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss. - Pope.

Man courts happiness in a thousand shapes; and the faster he follows it the swifter it flies from him. Almost everything proeth happiness to us at a distance, but when we come nearer, either we fall short of it, or it falls short of our expectation; and it is hard to say which of

these is the greatest disappointment. Our hopes are usually bigger than the enjoyment can satisfy; and an evil long feared, besides that it may never come, is many times more painful and troublesome than the evil itself when it comes.- Tillotson.

The chief secret of comfort lies in not suffering trifles to vex us, and in prudently cultivating our undergrowth of small pleasures, since very few great ones, alas! are let on long leases.-Sharp.

Pound St. Paul's church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is good for nothing; but put all these atoms together, and you have St. Paul's church. So it is with human felicity, which is made up of many ingredients, each of which may be very insignificant.-Johnson.

There is nothing substantial and satisfactory but the Supreme Good; in it, the deeper we go and the more largely we drink, the better and happier we are; whereas, in outward acquirements, if we could attain to the summit and perfection of them, the very possession of the enjoyment palls.

The fountain of content must spring up in the mind; and he who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts, and multiply the griefs which he purposes to remove.-Johnson.

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man; a contented mind confers it on all.Horace.

If the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.— Sterne.

Know then this truth, enough for man to know, virtue alone is happiness below.— Pope.

If happiness has not her seat and center in the breast, we may be wise, or rich, or great, but never can be blest.-Burns.

The spider's most attenuated thread is cord, is cable to man's tender tie on earthly bliss-it breaks at every breeze.-Young.

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness and small obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort.-Sir H. Davy.

Beware what earth calls happiness; beware all joys but joys that never can expire; who builds on less than an immortal base,

fond as he seems, condemns his joys to death.-Young.

Fixed to no spot is happiness; 'tis nowhere to be found, or everywhere.-Pope.

It is not so much by what we attain in this life that we are to be made happy, as by the enlivening hope of what we shall reach in the world to come. While a man is stringing a harp, he tries the strings, not for music, but for construction. When it is finished it shall be played for melodies. God is fashioning the human heart for future joy. He only sounds a string here and there to see how far his work has progressed.-H. W. Beecher.

Don't try to be happy.-Happiness is a shy nymph, and if you chase her you will never catch her; but just go quietly on in the way of duty and she will come to you.Eliphalet Nott.

The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, "Let no one be called happy till his death"; to which I would add, "Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy."E. B. Browning.

It is an inevitable law that a man cannot be happy if he does not live for something higher than his own happiness.-He cannot live in or for himself.-Every desire he has links him with others.-Bulwer.

To communicate happiness is worthy the ambition of beings superior to man; for it is a first principle of action with the author of all existence. It was God that taught it as a virtue; and it is God that gives the example.-Langhorne.

That all who are happy are equally happy is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. A small drinking glass and a large one may be equally full, but a large one holds more than the small.-Johnson.

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are, something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

The true happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self; and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions; it loves shade and solitude, and naturally haunts groves and fountains, fields and meadows; in short, it feels everything it wants within itself, and receives no addition from multitudes of witnesses and spectators. On the contrary, false happiness loves to be in a crowd, and to draw the eyes of the world upon her. She does not receive satisfaction from the applauses which she gives herself, but from the admiration which she raises in

The sunshine of life is made up of very little beams that are bright all the time. To give up something, when giving up will prevent unhappiness; to yield, when persisting will chafe and fret others; to go a little around rather than come against another; to take an ill look or a cross word quietly, rather than resent or return it,these are the ways in which clouds and storms are kept off, and a pleasant and steady sunshine secured.-Aikin.

True happiness renders men kind and sensible; and that happiness is always shared with others.-Montesquieu.

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.-L. E. Landon.

Silence is the perfectest herald of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.-Shakespeare.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and the beginning of his life.-Goethe.

There is one way of attaining what we may term, if not utter, at least mortal happiness; it is by a sincere and unrelaxing activity for the happiness of others.-Bul

wer.

The haunts of happiness are varied, but I have more often found her among little children, home firesides, and country houses than anywhere else.-Sydney Smith.

Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness.-It is not perfected till it is shared.-Jane Porter.

He only is happy as well as great who needs neither to obey nor command in order to be something.-Goethe.

That state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required, and necessaries are not wanting.-Plutarch.

There is in all of us an impediment to perfect happiness, namely, weariness of what we possess, and a desire for what we have not.-Mad. Rieux.

It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make any one happy or miserable.-L'Estrange.

The happiest life is that which constantly exercises and educates what is best in us.-Hamerton.

There is little pleasure in the world that is sincere and true beside that of doing our duty and doing good.-No other is comparable to this.-Tillotson.

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.-Plutarch.

The common course of things is in favor 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.-Paley.

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.-Herbert Spencer.

To be happy is not the purpose of our being, but to deserve happiness.-Fichte.

The great high-road of human welfare and happiness lies along the highway of steadfast well-doing, and they who are the most persistent and work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful.-S. Smiles.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.-George Eliot.

There is but one way to tranquillity of mind and happiness: let this, therefore, be always ready at hand with thee, both when thou wakest early in the morning, and all the day long, and when thou goest late to sleep, to account no external things thine own, but commit all these to God.Epictetus.

All mankind are happier for having been happy, so that if you make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it.-Sydney Smith.

To be happy you must forget yourself. Learn benevolence; it is the only cure of a morbid temper.-Bulwer.

Philosophical happiness is to want little ; civil or vulgar happiness is to want much and enjoy much.-Burke.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.-George Eliot.

I have now reigned above fifty years in victory or peace, beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies. Riches and honors, power and pleasure, have waited on my call, nor does any earthly blessing appear to have been wanting to my felicity. In this situation, I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot; they amount to fourteen.

man, place not thy confidence in this present world!-The Caliph Abdalraham."

Human happiness has no perfect security but freedom; freedom none but virtue; virtue none but knowledge; and neither freedom, virtue, nor knowledge has any vigor or immortal hope, except in the principles of the Christian faith, and in the sanctions of the Christian religion.Josiah Quincy.

If I may speak of myself, my happy hours have far exceeded, and far exceed, the scanty numbers of the Caliph of Spain; and I shall not scruple to add, that many of them are due to the pleasing labor of composing my history.-Gibbon.

The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.-Mad. Swetchine.

Happiness consists in activity. Such is the constitution of our nature.-It is a running stream, and not a stagnant pool.-J. M. Good.

The question, "Which is the happiest season of life," being referred to an aged man, he replied: "When spring comes, and in the soft air the buds are breaking on the trees, and they are covered with blossoms, I think, How beautiful is Spring! And when the summer comes, and covers the trees with its heavy foliage, and singing birds are among the branches, I think, How beautiful is Summer! When autumn loads them with golden fruit, and their leaves bear the gorgeous tint of frost, I think, How beautiful is Autumn! And when it is sere winter, and there is neither foliage nor fruit, then I look up through the leafless branches, as I never could until now, and see the stars shine."

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and perturbations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.-Seneca.

Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, lie in three words, health, peace, and competence.-Pope.

I questioned death-the grisly shade relaxed his brow severe-and-"I am happiness." he said, "if virtue guides thee here."-Heber.

HARDSHIP.- The difficulties, hardships, and trials of life, the obstacles one encounters on the road to fortune, are positive blessings.-They knit the muscles more firmly, and teach self-reliance.-Peril

is the element in which power is developed. -W. Mathews.

Ability and necessity dwell near each other.-Pythagoras.

He who has battled with poverty and hard toil will be found stronger and more expert than he who could stay at home from the battle, concealed among the provision wagons, or unwatchfully abiding by the stuff.-Carlyle.

It is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities but difficulties, that make men.- -W. Mathews.

Kites rise against, not with the wind.No man ever worked his passage anywhere. in a dead calm.-John Neal.

HARLOT. She weaves the windingsheet of souls, and lays them in the urn of everlasting death.-Pollok.

It is the strumpet's plague to beguile many, and be beguiled by one.-Shake

speare.

HASTE.-Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.-John Wesley.

The more haste ever the worse speed.— Churchill.

No two things differ more than hurry and despatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind; despatch of a strong one.Colton.

Haste is of the devil.-Koran.

Wisely and slow ;-they stumble that run fast.-Shakespeare.

Hurry is only good for catching flies.Russian Proverb.

Haste and rashness are storms and tempests, breaking and wrecking business; but nimbleness is a full fair wind blowing it with speed to the haven.-Fuller.

The longest way round is the shortest way home.

Haste trips its own heels, and fetters and stops itself.-Seneca.

Haste is not always speed. We must learn to work and wait. This is like God, who perfects his works through beautiful gradations.

Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.-Molière.

Haste usually turns upon being late, and may be avoided by a habit like that of Lord Nelson, to which he ascribed his success in life, of always being ten minutes too early. -Bovee.

It is of no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.-La Fontaine.

Rapidity does not always mean progress,

and hurry is akin to waste.-The old fable of the hare and the tortoise is just as good now, and just as true, as when it was first written.-C. A. Stoddard.

Stay awhile to make an end the sooner.Paulet.

Fraud and deceit are ever in a hurry.Take time for all things.-Great haste makes great waste.-Franklin.

Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.-Haste and hurry are very different things.-Chesterfield.

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.-Emerson.

Modest wisdom plucks me from overcredulous haste.-Shakespeare.

Hurry and cunning are the two apprentices of despatch and skill, but neither of them ever learns the master's trade.-Colton.

HATRED.-Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire.— C. Simmons.

Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littlenesses, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.—Balzac.

If I wanted to punish an enemy it should be by fastening on him the trouble of constantly hating somebody.-H. More.

I will tell you what to hate. Hate hypocrisy; hate cant; hate intolerance, oppression, injustice, Pharisaism; hate them as Christ hated them-with a deep, abiding, God-like hatred.-F. W. Robertson.

When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate.-Rochefoucauld.

Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.-J. G. C. Brainard.

If there is any person whom you dislike, that is the one of whom you should never speak.-Cecil.

Hatred is the madness of the heart.Byron.

Thousands are hated, while none are loved without a real cause.-Lavater.

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.-Goethe.

Dislike what deserves it, but never hate, for that is of the nature of malice, which is applied to persons, not to things.-Penn.

It is human nature to hate him whom you have injured.-Tacitus.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.-Buddha.

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.-Colton.

The hatred of those who are most nearly connected is the most inveterate.-Tacitus.

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned.-Congreve.

If you hate your enemies, you will contract such a vicious habit of mind as by degrees will break out upon those who are your friends, or those who are indifferent to you.-Plutarch.

The passion of hatred is so durable and so inveterate, that the surest prognostic of death in a sick man is a wish for reconciliation.-Bruyère.

There are glances of hatred that stab, and raise no cry of murder.-George Eliot.

Malice and hatred are very fretting, and make our own minds sore and uneasy.Tillotson.

HEAD. The head, truly enlightened, will have a wonderful influence in purifying the heart; and the heart really affected with goodness will much conduce to the directing of the head.-Sprat.

Such is man's unhappy condition, that though the weakness of the heart has a prevailing power over the strength of the head, yet the strength of the head has but small force against the weakness of the heart.-Tatler.

A woman's head is always influenced by heart; but a man's heart by his head.Lady Blessington.

HEALTH.-A sound mind in a sound body; if the former be the glory of the latter, the latter is indispensable to the former.-Tryon Edwards.

The building of a perfect body crowned by a perfect brain, is at once the greatest earthly problem and grandest hope of the race.-Dio Lewis.

A wise physician is a John Baptist, who recognizes that his only mission is to prepare the way for a greater than himselfNature.-A. S. Hardy.

Half the spiritual difficulties that men and women suffer arise from a morbid state of health.-H. W. Beecher.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of languor and suffering-an image of death.-Rabelais.

Take care of your health; you have no right to neglect it, and thus become a burden to yourself, and perhaps to others. Let your food be simple; never eat too much; take exercise enough; be systematic

in all things; if unwell, starve yourself till you are well again, and you may throw care to the winds, and physic to the dogs.W. Hall.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.-Sir W. Temple.

If the mind, that rules the body, ever so far forgets itself as to trample on its slave, the slave is never generous enough to forgive the injury, but will rise and smite the oppressor.-Longfellow.

Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.-Mrs. Sigourney.

The morality of clean blood ought to be one of the first lessons taught us by our pastors and teachers.-The physical is the substratum of the spiritual; and this fact ought to give to the food we eat, and the air we breathe, a transcendent significance. -Tyndale.

Wet feet are some of the most effective agents death has in the field. It has peopled more graves than all the gory engines of Those who neglect to keep their feet dry are suicides.—Abernethy.

war.

Men that look no further than their outsides, think health an appurtenance unto life, and quarrel with their constitutions for being sick; but I that have examined the parts of man, and know upon what tender filaments that fabric hangs, do wonder that we are not always so; and considering the thousand doors that lead to death, do thank my God that we can die but once.-Sir T. Browne.

To preserve health is a moral and religious duty, for health is the basis of all social virtues.-We can no longer be useful when not well.-Johnson.

Dyspepsia is the remorse of a guilty stomach.-A. Kerr.

Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured; but thousands and millions are of small avail to alleviate the tortures of the gout, to repair the broken organs of sense, or resuscitate the powers of digestion. Poverty is, indeed, an evil from which we naturally fly; but let us not run from one enemy to another, nor take shelter in the arms of sickness.-Johnson.

If men gave three times as much attention as they now do to ventilation, ablution, and exercise in the open air, and only one third as much to eating, luxury, and late