The administration of government, like a guardianship, ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, and not of those who receive the trust.-Cicero.

When any one person or body of men seize into their hands the power in the last resort, there is properly no longer a government, but what Aristotle and his followers call the abuse and corruption of one.-Swift.

The surest way of governing, both in a private family and a kingdom, is for a husband and a prince sometimes to drop their prerogative.-Bishop Hughes.

It is among the evils, and perhaps not the smallest, of democratical governments, that the people must feel before they will see. When this happens, they are roused to action. it is that those kinds of government are so slow. Washington.

GRACE.

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Grace has been defined, the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.—

Hazlitt.

There is a language in her eye, her cheeks, her lip, nay, her foot speaks.—Shakespeare.

Grace is a quality different from beauty, though nearly allied to it, which is never observed without affecting us with emotions of peculiar delight, and which it is, perhaps, the first object of the arts of sculpture and painting to study and to present.-Sir A. Alison.

Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, in every gesture dignity and love.-Milton. She was the pride of her familiar sphere, the daily joy of all who on her gracefulness might gaze, and in the light and music of her way have a companion's portion.-Willis.

The mother grace of all the graces is Christian good-will.-Beecher.

Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.-Joubert.

Grace is in a great measure a natural gift; elegance implies cultivation, or something of more artificial character. A rustic, uneducated girl may be graceful, but an elegant woman must be accomplished and well trained. It is the same with things as with persons; we talk of a graceful tree, but of an elegant house or other building. Animals may be graceful, but they cannot be elegant. The movements of a kitten or a young fawn are full of grace; but to call them " elegant " animals would be absurd.- Whately.

Every natural action is graceful.-Emerson.

To some kind of men their graces serve them but as enemies.-Shakespeare.

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love, which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue will always continue. Dryden.

God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.-Beecher.

It is graceful in a man to think and to speak with propriety, to act with deliberation, and in every occurrence of life to find out and persevere in the truth. On the other hand, to be imposed upon, to mistake, to falter, and to be deceived, is as ungraceful as to rave or to be insane.

Cicero.

Beauty, devoid of grace, is a mere hook without the bait.-Talleyrand.

Natural graces, that extinguish art.

Shakespeare.

Grace in women has more effect than beauty. We sometimes see a certain fine self-possession, an habitual voluptuousness of character, which reposes on its own sensations, and derives pleas ure from all around it, that is more irresistible than any other attraction. There is an air of languid enjoyment in such persons, "in their eyes, in their arms, and their hands, and their face," which robs us of ourselves, and draws us by a secret sympathy towards them.-Hazlitt.

A pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.-Bacon.

I thank my Heavenly Father for every manifestation of human love, I thank him for all experiences, be they sweet or bitter, which help me to forgive all things, and to enfold the whole world with a blessing.—Mrs. L. M. Child.

We seldom find people ungrateful so long as we are in a condition to render them service. Rochefoucauld.

Cicero calls gratitude the mother of virtues; reckons it is the most capital of all duties; and uses the words "grateful" and "good" as synonymous terms, inseparably united in the same character.-John Bate.

He who remembers the benefits of his parents is too much occupied with his recollections to remember their faults.-Béranger.

The feeling of gratitude has all the ardor of a passion in noble hearts.-Achilles Poincelot.

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man I will oblige a great many that are not so.-Seneca.

It is not best to refine gratitude; it evaporates in the process of subtilization.- Nicole.

Epicurus says "gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it." And where is the virtue, say I, that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.-Seneca.

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.—

Rousseau.

He that has nature in him must be grateful; it is the Creator's primary great law, that links the chain of beings to each other.- Madden.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little. A grateful mind is a great mind.-Secker.

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul; and the heart of man knoweth none more fragrant. While its opponent, ingratitude, is a deadly weed; not only poisonous in itself, but impregnating the very atmosphere in which it grows, with fetid vapors. Hosea Ballou.

The gratitude of place-expectants is a lively sense of future favors.—Sir Robert Walpole.

If I only have will to be grateful, I am so.— Seneca.

O call not to my mind what you have done! It sets a debt of that account before me, which shows me poor and bankrupt even in hopes! Congreve. It is a species of agreeable servitude, to be under an obligation to those we esteem.— Queen Christina.

It is a very high mind to which gratitude is not a painful sensation. If you wish to please, you will find it wiser to receive, solicit even, favors, than accord them; for the vanity of the obligor is always flattered, that of the obligee rarely.-Bulwer Lytton.

Those who make us happy are always thankful to us for being so. Their gratitude is

the reward of their own benefits.

As gratitude is a necessary, and a glorious, so also is it an obvious, a cheap, and an easy virtue; so obvious that wherever there is life there is place for it, so cheap that the covetous man may be gratified without expense, and so easy that the sluggard may be so likewise without labor.-Seneca.

Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks, but I thank you.-Shakespeare.

GRAVE.

The world's sweet inn from pain and wearisome turmoil.-Spenser.

The Stoics, who thought the souls of wise men had their habitations about the moon, might make slight account of subterranean depositions, whereas the Pythagoreans and transcorporating philosophers, who were to be after buried, held great care of their interment, and the Platonic rejected not a due care of the grave.—Sir T. Browne.

The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.—Burke.

There is a selfishness even in gratitude, when it is too profuse; to be over-thankful for one favor is in effect to lay out for another.Cumberland.

As flowers carry dew-drops, trembling on the edges of the petals, and ready to fall at the first waft of wind or brush of bird, so the heart should carry its beaded words of thanksgiving; and at the first breath of heavenly flavor, let down the shower, perfumed with the heart's gratitude.-Beecher."

People follow their interest; one man is grateful for his convenience, and another man is ungrateful for the same reason.-Seneca.

Pascal.

Earth's highest station ends in - Here he lies.-Young.

The grave dread thing! -men shiver when thou art named; Nature, appalled, shakes off her wonted firmness.—Blair.

The disciples found angels at the grave of Him they loved; and we should always find them too, but that our eyes are too full of tears for seeing.-Beecher.

The reconciling grave swallows distinction first, that made us foes; there all lie down ir peace together.-Southern.

It buries every error, covers every defect, extinguishes every resentment. From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections. Who can look down upon the grave of an enemy, and not feel a compunctious throb that he should have warred with the poor handful of dust that lies mouldering before him?-Washington Irving.

The earth opens impartially her bosom to receive the beggar and the prince.—Horace.

Always the idea of unbroken quiet broods around the grave. It is a port where the storms of life never beat, and the forms that have been tossed on its chafing waves lie quiet forevermore. There the child nestles as peacefully as ever it lay in its mother's arms, and the worker's brain is pillowed in silent mystery, and the poor girl's broken heart is steeped in a balm that extracts its secret woe, and is in the keeping of a charity that covers all blame.—Chapin.

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Young.

When the dusk of evening had come on, and not a sound disturbed the sacred stillness of the place, when the bright moon poured in her light on tomb and monument, on pillar, wall, and arch, and most of all (it seemed to them) upon her quiet grave, -in that calm time, when all outward things and inward thoughts teem with assurances of immortality, and worldly hopes and fears are humbled in the dust before them, then, with tranquil and submissive hearts they turned away, and left the child with God.-Dickens.

An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave, legions of angels can't confine me there!-Young.

The grave is, I suspect, the sole commonwealth which attains that dead flat of social equality that life in its every principle so heartily abhors.-Bulwer Lytton.

The grave is a sacred workshop of nature! a chamber for the figure of the body; death and life dwell here together as man and wife. They are one body, they are in union; God has joined them together, and what God hath joined together let no man put asunder.—Hippel.

We adorn graves with flowers and redolent plants, just emblems of the life of man, which has been compared in the Holy Scriptures to those fading beauties whose roots, being buried in dishonor, rise again in glory.-Evelyn.

If thou hast no inferiors, have patience awhile, and thou shalt have no superiors. The grave requires no marshal.—Quarles.

That unfathomed, boundless sea, the silent grave! -Longfellow. GRAVITY.

Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body invented to cover the defects of the mind.— Rochefoucauld.

Gravity is of the very essence of imposture; it does not only mistake other things, but is apt perpetually almost to mistake itself.Shaftesbury.

Too much gravity argues a shallow mind. Lavater.

There is a gravity which is not austere nor captious, which belongs not to melancholy nor dwells in contraction of heart; but arises from tenderness and hangs upon reflection.-Landor.

What doth gravity out of his bed at midnight? -Shakespeare.

As in a man's life, so in his studies, I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy nor the other rise up into wantonness.-Pliny.

Gravity is only the bark of wisdom, but it preserves it.-Confucius.

Gravity is twin brother to stupidity.—Bovee.

There is a false gravity that is a very ill symptom; and it may be said that as rivers which run very slowly have always the most mud at the bottom, so a stolid stiffness in the constant course of a man's life is a sign of a thick bed of mud at the bottom of his brain.Saville.

Gravity is the ballast of the soul.-Fuller.

A grave aspect to a grave character is of much more consequence than the world is generally aware of; a barber may make you laugh, but a surgeon ought rather to make you cry.Fielding.

The body's wisdom to conceal the mind.-
Young.

Yorick sometimes, in his wild way of talking, would say that gravity was an arrant scoundrel, and, he would add, of the most dangerous kind too, because a sly one; and that he verily believed more honest well-meaning people were bubbled out of their goods and money by it in one twelvemonth than by pocket-picking and shop-lifting in seven.-Sterne.

Piety enjoins no man to be dull.-South.

That gloomy outside, like a rusty chest, contains the shining treasures of a soul resolved and brave.-Dryden.

Gravity is the best cloak for sin in all countries.-Fielding.

GREATNESS.

It is to be lamented that great characters are seldom without a blot.-Washington.

Few footprints of the great remain in the sand before the ever-flowing tide. Long ago it washed out Homer's. Curiosity follows him in vain; Greece and Asia perplex us with a rival Stratford-upon-Avon. The rank of Aristophanes is only conjectured from his gift to two poor players in Athens. The age made no sign when Shakespeare, its noblest son, passed away.-Willmott.

Greatness, once fallen out with fortune, must fall out with men too.-Shakespeare.

There is something on earth greater than arbitrary power. The thunder, the lightning, and the earthquake are terrific, but the judg ment of the people is more.-Daniel Webster.

There never was a great man unless through divine inspiration.-Cicero.

All grandeur that has not something corresponding to it in personal merit and heroic acts, is a deliberate burlesque, and an insult on common sense and human nature.-Hazlitt.

Distinction is an eminence that is attained but too frequently at the expense of a fireside. Simms.

Great men, said Themistocles, are like the oaks, under the branches of which men are happy in finding a refuge in the time of storm and rain. But when they have to pass a sunny day under them, they take pleasure in cutting the bark and breaking the branches.-Goethe.

It is always a sign of poverty of mind when men are ever aiming to appear great; for they who are really great never seem to know it.-Cecil.

The truly great consider, first, how they may gain the approbation of God, and, secondly, that of their own consciences; having done this, they would then willingly conciliate the good opinion of their fellow-men.-Colton.

In order to do great things, it is necessary to live as if one was never to die.

Vauvenarques.

Such is the destiny of great men that their superior genius always exposes them to be the butt of the envenomed darts of calumny and envy.-Voltaire.

The world cannot do without great men, but great men are very troublesome to the world.-Goethe.

None think the great unhappy but the great. Young.

Subtract from a great man all that he owes to opportunity and all that he owes to chance, all that he has gained by the wisdom of his friends and by the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be left a pygmy.-Barlow.

The world knows nothing of its greatest men.-Jeremy Taylor.

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some men that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.—Colton.

Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.Landor.

What millions died that Cæsar might be great! —Campbell.

The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity would seem to be this: the friends of a great man were made by his fortunes, his enemies by himself; and revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude.-Colton.

The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.-Johnson.