Part 38

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.

~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.

Goodness thinks no ill where no ill seems.--Milton.

~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.