Nothing is so expensive as glory. - Sydney Smith. The love of glory can only create a hero, the contempt of it creates a wise man. Talleyrand.

Gluttony. Whose god is their belly, and - Bible. whose glory is in their shame.

The kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god. Buck.

God.- He that doth the ravens feed, yea, providentially caters for the sparrow, be comfort to my age!-Shakespeare.

To escape from evil, we must be made as far as possible like God; and this resemblance consists in becoming just and holy and wise.— Plato.

Whenever I think of God I can only conceive him as a Being infinitely great and infinitely good. This last quality of the divine nature inspires me with such confidence and joy that I could have written even a miserere in tempo allegro. — Haydn.

All flows out from the Deity, and all must be absorbed in him again. — Zoroaster.

It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such an opinion as is unworthy of him; for the one is unbelief, and the other is contumely; and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Bacon.

I have seen two miracles lately. I looked up, and saw the clouds above me in the noontide; and they looked like the sea that was hanging over me, and I could see no cord on which they were suspended, and yet they never fell. And then when the noontide had gone, and the midnight came, I looked again, and there was the dome of heaven, and it was spangled with stars, and I could see no pillars that held up the skies, and yet they never fell. Now He that holds the stars up and moves the clouds in their course can do all things, and I trust Him in the sight of these miracles. —Luther.

This avenging God, rancorous torturer who burns his creatures in a slow fire! When they tell me that God made himself a man, I prefer to recognize a man who made himself a god.- Alfred de Musset.

This is one of the names which we give to that eternal, infinite, and incomprehensible being, the Creator of all things, who preserves and governs everything by his almighty power and wisdom, and is the only object of our worship. — Cruden.

Gold. Midas longed for gold. He got gold so that whatever he touched became gold, and he, with his long ears, was little the better for it. Carlyle.

A mask of gold hides all deformities.

- Dekker.

There are two metals, one of which is omnipotent in the cabinet, and the other in the camp, -gold and iron. He that knows how to apply them both may indeed attain the highest station, but he must know something more to keep it. - Colton.

Thou true magnetic pole, to which all hearts point duly north, like trembling needles!- Byron.

Judges and senates have been bought for gold. — Pope.

Gold is, in its last analysis, the sweat of the poor, and the blood of the brave-Joseph Napoleon.

Gold all is not that doth golden seem. - Spenser. There is no place so high that an ass laden with gold cannot reach it.- Rojas.

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Good. When what is good comes of age and is likely to live, there is reason for rejoicing.-George Eliot.

How indestructibly the good grows, and propagates itself, even among the weedy entanglements of evil!- Carlyle.

Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows. Milton.

Whatever mitigates the woes or increases the happiness of others is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity. One should not quarrel with a dog without a reason sufficient to vindicate one through all the courts of morality. — Goldsmith.

The true and good resemble gold. Gold seldom appears obvious and solid, but it pervades invisibly the bodies that contain it.-Jacobi.

He is good that does good to others. If he suffers for the good he does, he is better still; and if he suffers from them to whom he did good, he is arrived to that height of goodness that nothing but an increase of his sufferings can add to it; if it proves his death, his virtue is at its summit, it is heroism complete.- Bruyère.

That is good which doth good.-Venning.

The Pythagoreans make good to be certain and finite, and evil infinite and uncertain. There are a thousand ways to miss the white; there is only one to hit it.— Montaigne.

Good-humor. Honest good-humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and the laughter abundant.- Washington Irving.

Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue, I mean good-nature, are of daily use: they are the bread of mankind and staff of life. Dryden.

This portable quality of good-humor seasons all the parts and occurrences we meet with, in such a manner that there are no moments lost, but they all pass with so much satisfaction that the heaviest of loads (when it is a load), that of time, is never felt by us. Steele.

Gayety is to good-humor as perfumes to vegetable fragrance: the one overpowers weak spirits, the other recreates and revives them.-Johnson.

That inexhaustible good-nature, which is the most precious gift of Heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather. - Washington Irving.

Goodness.— Nothing rarer than real goodness. — Rochefoucauld.

True goodness is like the glow-worm in this, that it shines most when no eyes except those of Heaven are upon it. · Archdeacon Hare.

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. - Pope.

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Goodness thinks no ill where no ill seems. Mil

Gossip. A long-tongued babbling gossip.Shakespeare.

He sits at home until he has accumulated an insupportable load of ennui, and then he sallies forth to distribute it amongst his acquaintance. — Colton.

As to people saying a few idle words about us, we must not mind that, any more than the old churchsteeple minds the rooks cawing about it. George Eliot.

Government. The proper function of a government is to make it easy for people to do good and difficult for them to do evil. · Gladstone.

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.— Burke.

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.-Burke.

Government owes its birth to the necessity of preventing and repressing the injuries which the associated individuals had to fear from one another. It is the sentinel who watches, in order that the common laborer be not disturbed. Abbé Raynal.

But I say to you, and to our whole country, and to all the crowned heads and aristocratic powers. and feudal systems that exist, that it is to self-government, the great principle of popular representation and administration, the system that lets in all to participate in the counsels that are to assign the good or evil to all, that we may owe what we are and what we hope to be. - Daniel Webster.

The culminating point of administration is to know well how much power, great or small, we ought to use in all circumstances. — Montesquieu.

Of governments, that of the mob is the most. sanguinary, that of soldiers the most expensive, and. that of civilians the most vexatious. - Colton.

Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins: of the bowers of paradise. For were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform, and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other lawgiver; but that not being the ease, he finds it necessary to surrender up a part of his property to furnish means for the protection of the rest, and this he is induced to do by the same prudence which in every other case advises him out of two evils to choose the least. Thomas Paine.

Grace. As amber attracts a straw, so does beauty admiration, which only lasts while the warmth continues; but virtue, wisdom, goodness, and real worth, like the loadstone, never lose their power. These are the true graces, which, as Homer feigns, are linked and tied hand in hand, because it is by their influence that human hearts are so firmly united to each other. - Burton.