There is a nobler ambition than the gaining of
all California would be, or the getting of all the suffrages that are
on the planet just now. (Loud and prolonged cheers.)
Finally, gentlemen, I have one advice to give you, which is
practically of very great importance, though a very humble one.
I have no doubt you will have among you people ardently bent to
consider life cheap, for the purpose of getting forward in what they
are aiming at of high; and you are to consider throughout, much more
than is done at present, that health is a thing to be attended to
continually--that you are to regard that as the very highest of all
temporal things for you. (Applause.) There is no kind of achievement
you could make in the world that is equal to perfect health. What are
nuggets and millions? The French financier said, "Alas! why is there
no sleep to be sold?" Sleep was not in the market at any quotation.
(Laughter and applause.)
It is a curious thing that I remarked long ago, and have often
turned in my head, that the old word for "holy" in the German
language--_heilig_--also means "healthy.
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