Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

He's wise that's wise in time. Sc. Pr.

Headstrong liberty is lashed with woe. Com. 30 of Errors, ii. 1.

Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other. Spectator.

Health consists with temperance alone. Pope.

Health is better than wealth. Pr.

Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness—an open and noble temper. Emerson.

Health is the first of all liberties, and happiness 35 gives us the energy which is the basis of health. Amiel.

Health lies in labour, and there is no royal road to it but through toil. Wendell Phillips.

Health, longevity, beauty are other names for personal purity, and temperance is the regimen for all. A. B. Alcott.

Healthy action is always a balance of forces; and all extremes are dangerous; the excess of a good thing being often more dangerous in its social consequences than the excess of what is radically bad. Prof. Blackie, to Young Men.