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 rejoices for those which he has. --_Epictetus._ 387 When the well is dry, then we all know the worth of water. 388 In conversation avoid the extremes of Forwardness and Reserve. --_Cato._ 389 _Conversation._--To please others we should talk on subjects they like and that interest them; avoid disputes, seldom ask questions, and never let them see that we pretend to be better informed than they are. --_Rochefoucauld._ 390