News as wholesome as the morning air. [ Chapman ]

All sorts of sweets are not wholesome. [ Proverb ]

Wholesome solitude, the nurse of sense! [ Pope ]

Bitter pills may have wholesome effects. [ Proverb ]

All is wholesome in the absence of excess. [ Moliere ]

The strawberry grows underneath the nettle
And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best
Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality. [ William Shakespeare ]

Root away
The noisome weeds, which without profit suck
The soil's fertility from wholesome flowers. [ Rich. II ]

Bosom up my counsel. You'll find it wholesome. [ William Shakespeare ]

An album is a garden, not for show
Planted, but use; where wholesome herbs should grow. [ Charles Lamb ]

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint. [ Webster ]

Wholesome and poisonous herbs grow in the same garden. [ Proverb ]

Crosses, though they be not pleasant, yet are wholesome. [ Proverb ]

The first condition of education is being put to wholesome and useful work. [ John Ruskin ]

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. [ Lowell ]

What we call conscience, in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the constable. [ Bovee ]

Eloquence is the child of knowledge. When the mind is full, like a wholesome river, it is also clear. [ Benjamin Disraeli ]

As wholesome meat corrupteth to little worms, so good forms and orders corrupt into a number of petty observances. [ Bacon ]

Nothing is so wholesome, nothing does so much for people's looks, as a little interchange of the small coin of benevolence. [ Ruffini ]

Novels may teach us as wholesome a moral as the pulpit. There are sermons in stones, in healthy books, and good in everything. [ Colton ]

He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter. [ Barrow ]

Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revery is the same flower, when rank and running to seed. [ Tupper ]

Affliction is the wholesome soul of virtue; Where patience, honor, sweet humanity. Calm fortitude, take root, and strongly flourish. [ Mallet and Thomson ]

When we plant a tree, we are doing what we can to make our planet a more wholesome and happier dwelling-place for those who come after us if not for ourselves. [ Holmes ]

To smell a fresh turf of earth is wholesome for the body; no less are thoughts of mortality cordial to the soul. Dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt return. [ Fuller ]

Might I give counsel to any young hearer, I would say to him, try to frequent the company of your betters. In books and life is the most wholesome society; learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admire, - they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly. [ Thackeray ]

In the matter of diet - which is another main thing - I have been persistently strict in sticking to the things which didn't agree with me until one or the other of us got the best of it. Until lately I got the best of it myself. But last spring I stopped frolicking with mince-pie after midnight; up to then I had always believed it wasn't loaded. For thirty years I have taken coffee and bread at eight in the morning, and no bite nor sup until seven-thirty in the evening. Eleven hours. That is all right for me, and is wholesome, because I have never had a headache in my life, but headachy people would not reach seventy comfortably by that road, and they would be foolish to try it. And I wish to urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - that if you find you can't make seventy by any but an uncomfortable road, don't you go. When they take off the Pullman and retire you to the rancid smoker, put on your things, count your checks, and get out at the first way station where there's a cemetery. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]