O blessed Health! thou art above all gold and treasure; ’tis thou who enlargest the soul, and openest all its powers to receive instruction, and to relish virtue.  He that has thee has little more to wish for, and he that is so wretched as to want thee, wants everything with thee.—­Sterne.

People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding up a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy.—­Sterne.

Health and good humor are to the human body like sunshine to vegetation.—­Massillon.

One means very effectual for the preservation of health is a quiet and cheerful mind, not afflicted with violent passions or distracted with immoderate cares.—­John ray.

The requirements of health, and the style of female attire which custom enjoins, are in direct antagonism to each other.—­Abba Goold Woolson.

For life is not to live, but to be well.—­Martial.

From labor health, from health contentment springs.—­Beattie.

In these days half our diseases come from neglect of the body in overwork of the brain—­Lytton.

The rule is simple:  Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy.—­Franklin.

Heart.—­Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.—­Proverbs 4:23.

The poor too often turn away unheard,
From hearts that shut against them with a sound
That will be heard in heaven. 

          
                          —­Longfellow.

He who has most of heart knows most of sorrow.—­Bailey.

All offences come from the heart.—­Shakespeare.

Many flowers open to the sun, but only one follows him constantly.  Heart, be thou the sunflower, not only open to receive God’s blessing, but constant in looking to Him.—­Richter.

Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.—­Matthew 12:34.

Do you think that any one can move the heart but He that made it? 
—­John lyly.

When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it is pretty certain that she has his.—­G.D.  Prentice.

The heart never grows better by age, I fear rather worse; always harder.  A young liar will be an old one; and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.—­Chesterfield.

A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.—­Gibbon.

The heart that has once been bathed in love’s pure fountain retains the pulse of youth forever.—­Landor.

A loving heart carries with it, under every parallel of latitude, the warmth and light of the tropics.  It plants its Eden in the wilderness and solitary place, and sows with flowers the gray desolation of rock and mosses.—­Whittier.