48 MORAL PHILOSOPHY. 



and stagnate. The possession of both qualities con- 

 stitutes the complete man of business. 



When a man has too many irons in the fire, some 

 of them must cool. 



Good Spirits. 



Happiness consists in bodily health, and tranquil- 

 lity, firmness and alacrity of mind; to attain which 

 no sacrifice or abstinence, mental or corporeal, (for 

 both are required,) is too great. When we are in 

 perfect health and spirits, we feel in ourselves a hap- 

 piness independent of any particular outward gratifi- 

 cation whatever, and of which we can give no account. 

 This is an enjoyment which the Deity has annexed 

 to existence, and probably constitutes the apparent 

 felicity of infants and brutes, especially of the lower 

 and sedentary orders of animals, such as oysters, 

 periwinkles, and the like. 



Object and Employment. 



A man who is in earnest in his endeavours with 

 respect to the happiness of a future state, has in this 

 respect an advantage over all the rest of the world, 

 having constantly before his eyes an object of inter- 

 minable importance. 



