--PETER PINDAR.
There is nothing like fun, is there? I haven't any myself, but I do
like it in others. O, we need it! We need all the counterweights we
can muster to balance the sad relations of life. God has made many
sunny spots in the heart; why should we exclude the light from
them?--HALIBURTON.
I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one
another next morning.--IZAAK WALTON.
Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care,
moroseness, anxiety,--all this rust of life, ought to be scoured off
by the oil of mirth. It is better than emery. Every man ought to rub
himself with it. A man without mirth is like a wagon without springs,
in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which
it runs.--BEECHER.
MISFORTUNE.--The diamond of character is revealed by the concussion of
misfortune, as the splendor of the precious jewel of the mine is
developed by the blows of the lapidary.--F.A. DURIVAGE.
A soul exasperated in ills, falls out
With everything, its friend, itself.
--ADDISON.
We have all of us sufficient fortitude to bear the misfortunes of
others.--LA ROCHEFOUCAULD.
The good man, even though overwhelmed by misfortune, loses never his
inborn greatness of soul. Camphor-wood burnt in the fire becomes all
the more fragrant.--SATAKA.
Who hath not known ill-fortune, never knew
Himself, or his own virtue.
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