History is ever ready to point out how nations have been benefited by calamities, and churches by persecutions. Why not believe that the same rule holds good in our own lives? * * * * * Think what we should miss if all went smoothly with us! Without pain, we should not know pity; without danger, we should not develop courage; without receiving injuries, no chance to show forgiveness; without affliction, no opportunity for fortitude; without ingratitude, no means of proving disinterestedness; without injustice, no occasion for forbearance; without violence, no training in self-control. Really, it seems that to encounter misfortunes must be the finest fortune in life! * * * * * The surgeon restores a stiffened joint or an atrophied muscle by painful manipulations. Nothing but painful experiences will restore a sluggish mind to activity and enjoyment. * * * * * To forget even for a short time those we have loved and lost seems a lack of fealty to them; but if their influence is ever present with us to our good, our joy is a worthier memorial to them than would be endless repining. * * * * * The memory of a great sorrow obliterates the slight asperities of daily life. * * * * * The mingling of tears is a transfusion of spirit. A sorrow in common is the strongest of covenants. * * * * * The only complete satisfaction of the sense of living is its sacrifice. * * * * * The sweetest joys are consoled sorrows. INDEX. Abderrhaman, Sultan, 27. Adversity, consolations of, 253. Advice, slight value of, 188; effect of, 193. Afflictions, consolations of, 248. Age and youth compared, 34, 225; not synonymous with wisdom, 35; sorrows of, 76. Angelo, Michael, 78, 177, 235, 246. Anger, destructive to happiness, 147. Anthropology, its aim, 54. Apathy, as a calmative, 146. Architecture, the best, 86. Argument never convinces, 188. Aristotle, quoted, 10, 11, 13, 17, 167, 222. Art of happiness, the, 9, 54; of pleasure, 38; the aim of, 149; inspirations of, 154. Asceticism, the blunders of, 24, 128. Association required, 216. Bacon, Lord, quoted, 51, 85, 108, 145, 217, 221, 234, 261. Bain, A., quoted, 41, 148, 206, 211. Bentham, J., quoted, 10, 27. Beauty, the power of, 67; the ideal of, 68; results of, 69; the burden of, 236. Benevolent emotions, pleasures of, 213. Berkeley, Bishop, quoted, 126. “Blues,” how to relieve, 74. Books, what kind to read, 160. Brillat-Savarin, quoted, 133. Bronte, Charlotte, 189. Browning, Robert, quoted, 46, 267; Mrs., quoted, 270. Bruno, Giordano, quoted, 171, 173. Buddha, words of, 21, 61. Buddhism, aspirations of, 21; advice of, 143, 274. Burke, quoted, 215. Business principles, how studied, 42; precepts, 124, 217.