another.--CONDORCET.

To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much,
impossible.--MARIE EBNER-ESCHENBACH.

My God, give me neither poverty nor riches; but whatsoever it may be
Thy will to give, give me with it a heart which knows humbly to
acquiesce in what is Thy will.--GOTTHOLD.

One who is contented with what he has done will never become famous
for what he will do. He has lain down to die. The grass is already
growing over him.--BOVEE.

Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the
expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy
purchase.--BALGUY.

If men knew what felicity dwells in the cottage of a godly man, how
sound he sleeps, how quiet his rest, how composed his mind, how free
from care, how easy his position, how moist his mouth, how joyful his
heart, they would never admire the noises, the diseases, the throngs
of passions, and the violence of unnatural appetites that fill the
house of the luxurious and the heart of the ambitious.--JEREMY TAYLOR.

He is richest who is content with the least; for content is the wealth
of nature.--SOCRATES.

Poor and content, is rich and rich enough;
But riches, fineless, is as poor as winter,
To him that ever fears he shall be poor.
--SHAKESPEARE.

Learn to be pleased with everything, with wealth so far as it makes us
beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for;
and with obscurity, for being unenvied.--PLUTARCH.

It is right to be contented with what we have, but never with what we
are.--SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH.

Without content, we shall find it almost as difficult to please
others as ourselves.--GREVILLE.

True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough
for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.--COLTON.

Content with poverty my soul I arm;
And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
--DRYDEN.

Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it
elsewhere.--HOSEA BALLOU.

The noblest mind the best contentment has.--SPENSER.

I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.
--PHILIPPIANS 4:11.

CONVERSATION.--The pith of conversation does not consist in exhibiting
your own superior knowledge on matters of small consequence, but in
enlarging, improving and correcting the information you possess by the
authority of others.--SIR WALTER SCOTT.