Precept & Practice – MARCH 27 – Health

Health is like any inheritance – you can spend the interest in work and play, but you mustn’t break into the principal. 

G. H. Lorimer (Old Gorgon Graham’s Letters to his Son)

It’s a mighty simple thing, though, to keep in good condition, because about everything that makes for poor health has to get into you right under your nose. 

G. H. Lorimer (Old Gorgon Graham’s Letters to his Son)

Of course, with all the care in the world, a fellow’s likely to catch things;  but there’s no sense in sending out invitations to a lot of miscellaneous microbes, and pretending when they call that it’s a surprise party.   Bad health hates a man who is friendly with its enemies hard work, plain food, and pure air.   More men die from worry than from overwork;  more stuff themselves to death than die of starvation.

G. H. Lorimer (Old Gorgon Graham’s Letters to his Son)

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From the Introduction to Precept and Practice

The kindly welcome given to my other little books, ‘Being and Doing’ and ‘Character and Conduct,’ must be my excuse for adding another collection of extracts to the number now in circulation.

The quotations are gathered from the books of many earnest thinkers, and deal with Life in all its length and breadth, with ourselves, our characters, our plain unvarnished faults and weaknesses, our often untoward circumstances, and with all that drags us down;-  with our purposes, our religion, our love and friendships, and with all that uplifts us;-  with our relation to others, our influence and responsibilities, and finally with those stages of our journey which bring us to the Road’s Last Turn and to the Silent Land.

CONSTANCE  M. WHISHAW