#33. ” A hearty meal, taken while excessively fatigued, has often destroyed life.”
#34. “Health and good nature are generally associated.”
#35. “On a freezing winter morning, to enter a warm breakfast room, with a blazing fire and a snow-white table covering, with cheery faces all around giving hearty welcome, is one of the many domestic felicities of a happy marriage.”
#36. “The “sands of life” are yielded by the food we eat and the water we drink; they constitute the foundation of the nails and hair and the scales of the skin, for we are all a scaly people, differing from the fish only that ours are smaller, and of variable quantities – morally.”
#37. “Water is by much the largest constituent of our frames, used to render the other more solid portions plastic; but all decay and die, having been but the casket of the soul, destined for immorality and eternal life.”
#38. “Cleanliness, in all the surroundings of a family mansion, pays richly in many ways, in good health, moral elevation, personal comfort, and dollars and cents besides.”
#39. “The comforts and conveniences of life save trouble, save labor, economize time, and add to our happiness greatly.”
#40. “A sour look, an impatient gesture, a cross word at the breakfast table is enough to make the best food indigestible and spoil a day.”