James Mackintosh._

371

A favorite saying of the beloved Dr. John A. Broaddus was: "It is better
to like what you have, than to have what you like."

--_Christian Observer._

372

If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to
the world's caprice, you never will be rich.

373

Happy the man, whose wish and care
A few paternal acres bound,
Content to breathe his native air
In his own ground.

374

Since we have loaves, let us look not for cakes.

--_Spanish._

375

To be content with little is difficult; to be content with
much--impossible.

--_Marie Ebner Eschenbach._

376

If thou hast but little, make it not less by murmuring.

--_Quarles._

377

Contentment will make a cabbage look as fair as a palace.

--_W. Secker._

378

May we never murmur without a cause, nor have cause to murmur.

379

He that is rich need not live sparingly, and he that can live sparingly
need not be rich.

380

Some have too much, yet still do crave;
I have little, and seek no more:
They are but poor, though much they have,
And I am rich with little store;
They poor, I rich; they beg, I give;
They lack, I have; they pine, I live.

--_Sir Edward Dyer, (Died 1607.)_

381

If all the gems of earth were mine
And wealth and power were to me sent,
How infinitely poor I'd be
Without content.

--_Annie W. McCoy._

382

Is it possible to find perfect contentment? Some one once said:--"The
secret of perfect contentment is, that there isn't any."

383

"It is a great blessing to possess what one wishes," said one to an
ancient philosopher, who replied, "It is a greater blessing still, not
to desire what one does not possess."

384

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

--_J. Balgury._

385

He that deserves nothing should be content with anything.

386

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not,
but re