GENTLEMAN.

How weak a thing is gentility, if it wants virtue !-Fuller.

GENTLEMAN. - Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanor; honorable himself, and in his judgment of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and mansuch a man is a true gentleman.

The flowering of civilization is the finished man--the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power-the gentleman.-Emerson.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.—Locké.

The taste of beauty, and the relish of what is decent, just, and amiable, perfect the character of the gentleman and the philosopher. And the study of such a taste or relish will be ever the great employment and concern of him who covets as well to be wise and good as agreeable and polite. -Shaftesbury.

Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady, as distinguished from the veneered article which commonly goes by that name.— Huxley.

Repose and cheerfulness are the badge of the gentleman - repose in energy.— Emerson.

It is a grand old name, that of gentleman, and has been recognized as a rank and power in all stages of society. To possess this character is a dignity of itself, commanding the instinctive homage of every generous mind, and those who will not bow to titular rank will yet do homage to the gentleman. His qualities depend not upon fashion or manners, but upon moral worth; not on personal possessions, but on personal qualities.-S. Smiles.

You may depend upon it, religion is, in its essence, the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It will, alone, gentilize, if unmixed with cant; and I know nothing else, which, alone, will.-Coleridge.

Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman.-Elegance is necessary to the fine gentleman; dignity is proper to noblemen; and majesty to kings.-Hazlitt.

Men of courage, men of sense, and men of letters are frequent; but a true gentleman is what one seldom sees.-Steele.

The real gentleman should be gentle in everything, at least in everything that depends on himself,-in carriage, temper,

constructions, aims, desires. He ought therefore to be mild, calm, quiet, even, temperate,-not hasty in judgment, not exorbitant in ambition, not overbearing, not proud, not rapacious, not oppressive; for these things are contrary to gentleness. -Hare.

We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.--Emerson.

He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility, proves that he is as perfect a gentleman by nature, as his companions are by rank. -Colton.

Gentleman is a term that does not apply to any station, but to the mind and feelings in every station.-Talfourd.

It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot.-E. H. Chapin.

Perhaps a gentleman is a rarer man than some of us think for. Which of us can point out many such in his circle; men whose aims are generous, whose truth is not only constant in its kind, but elevated in its degree; whose want of meanness makes them simple, who can look the world honestly in the face with an equal manly sympathy for the great and the small. Thackeray.

To be a gentleman is to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to be wise, and possessing all those qualities to exercise them in the most graceful outward manner.―Thackeray.

GENTLENESS.-We are indebted to Christianity for gentleness, especially toward women.-C. Simmons.

True gentleness is love in society, holding intercourse with those around it. It is considerateness; it is tenderness of feeling; it is promptitude of sympathy; it is love in all its depths, and in all its delicacy. -It is everything included in that matchless grace, "the gentleness of Christ.". J. Hamilton.

True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to him who made us, and to the common nature which we all share.It arises from reflection on our own failings and wants, and from just views of the condition and duty of men.-It is native feeling heightened and improved by principle.—Blair.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness; nothing so gentle as real strength.-Francis de Sales.

GEOLOGY.

What thou wilt thou shalt rather enforce with thy smile than hew to it with thy sword.-Shakespeare.

GEOLOGY. (See "SCIENCE.")

GLORY.

the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.―Thomas à Kempis.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.-George Eliot.

Examples are few of men ruined by giv

in what they give.—Bovee.

When a friend asks, there is no to-morrow.-Herbert.

Geology gives us a key to the patience of God.-J. G. Holland.

GIFTS. It is the will, and not the gift that makes the giver.-Lessing.

The manner of giving shows the character of the giver, more than the gift itself.Lavater.

There is a gift that is almost a blow, and there is a kind word that is munificence; so much is there in the way of doing things. -A. Helps.

Give what you have. To some one it may be better than you dare to think.Longfellow.

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation'; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.-Seneca.

To reveal its complacence by gifts, is one of the native dialects of love.-Mrs. Sigourney.

Serving God with our little, is the way to make it more; and we must never think that wasted with which God is honored, or men are blest.

Give according to your means, or God will make your means according to your giving.-John Hall.

A gift, its kind, its value, and appearance; the silence or the pomp that attends it; the style in which it reaches you, may decide the dignity or vulgarity of the giver. -Lavater.

Presents which our love for the donor has rendered precious are ever the most acceptable.-Ovid.

People do not care to give alms without some security for their money; and a wooden leg or a withered arm is a sort of draft upon heaven for those who choose to have their money placed to account there.— Mackenzie.

He who loves with purity considers not

When thou makest presents, let them be of such things as will last long; to the end they may be in some sort immortal, and may frequently refresh the memory of the receiver.-Fuller.

The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.-Balfour.

It is a proof of boorishness to confer a favor with a bad grace.-How little does a smile cost!-Bruyère.

Every gift, though it be small, is in reality great if given with affection.-Pindar. The secret of giving affectionately is great and rare; it requires address to do it well; otherwise we lose instead of deriving benefit from it.-Corneille.

Independence is of more value than any gifts; and to receive gifts is to lose it.Men most commonly seek to oblige thee only that they may engage thee to serve them.-Saadi.

Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.-Shakespeare.

The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious.-Luther.

Gifts are as the gold which adorns the temple; grace is like the temple that sanctifies the gold.—Burkitt.

Who gives a trifle meanly is meaner than the trifle.-Lavater.

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty. -Seneca.

He gives not best who gives most; but he gives most who give best.-If I cannot give bountifully, yet I will give freely, and what I want in my hand, I will supply by my heart.- Warwick.

Gifts weigh like mountains on a sensitive heart. To me they are oftener punishments than pleasures.-Mad. Fee.

GLORY.-True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so living

GLORY.

as to make the world happier and better for our living in it.-Pliny.

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long. -Cicero.

It is by what we ourselves have done, and not by what others have done for us, that we shall be remembered by after ages. It is by thought that has aroused the intellect from its slumbers, which has given luster to virtue and dignity to truth, or by those examples which have inflamed the soul with the love of goodness, and not by means of sculptured marble, that I hold communion with Shakespeare and Milton, with Johnson and Burke, with Howard and Wilberforce.-Francis Wayland.

Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves. Without that, the conqueror is nought but the foist slave.— Thomson.

As to be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature, to be so to the utmost of our abilities is the glory of man.-Addison.

Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.Goldsmith.

Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.—Cowper.

Like madness is the glory of this life.Shakespeare.

He that first likened glory to a shadow, did better than he was aware of; they are both vain.-Glory, also, like the shadow, goes sometimes before the body, and sometimes in length infinitely exceeds it.-Montaigne.

By skillful conduct and artificial means a person may make a sort of name for himself; but if the inner jewel be wanting, all is vanity, and will not last.--Goethe.

Two things ought to teach us to think but meanly of human glory-that the very best have had their calumniators, and the very worst their panegyrists.-Colton.

Let us not disdain glory too much; nothing is finer, except virtue.-The height of happiness would be to unite both in this life. Chateaubriand.

The shortest way to glory is to be guided by conscience.-Home.

Those great actions whose luster dazzles us are represented by politicians as the effects of deep design, whereas they are commonly the effects of caprice and passion.-Rochefoucauld.

The glory of a people, and of an age, is

always the work of a small number of great men, and disappears with them.-Grimm.

GLUTTONY.-Swinish gluttony ne'er looks to heaven amid his gorgeous feast, but with besotted, base ingratitude, crams and blasphemes his feeder.-Milton.

They whose sole bliss is eating, can give but that one brutish reason why they live. -Juvenal.

Some men are born to feast, and not to fight; whose sluggish minds, even in fair honor's field, still on their dinner turn.— Joanna Baillie.

Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their God.—Buck.

Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities and the fountain of all our diseases. As a lamp is choked by a superabundance of oil, and a fire extinguished by excess of fuel, so is the natural health of the body destroyed by intemperate diet.—Burton.

I have come to the conclusion that mankind consume too much food.-Sidney Smith.

As houses well stored with provisions are likely to be full of mice, so the bodies of those who eat much are full of diseases. Diogenes.

The pleasures of the palate deal with us like the Egyptian thieves, who strangle those whom they embrace.-Seneca.

He who is a slave to his belly seldom worships God.-Saadi.

I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit.-Shakespeare.

GOD. 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 every thing by his almighty power and wisdom, and who is the only object of our worship. -Cruden.

God is a spirit. infinite, eternal, and unchangeable in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth.Catechism.

We know God easily, if we do not constrain ourselves to define him.-Joubert.

The Mohammedans have ninety-nine names for God, but among them all they have not "6 our Father."

We should give God the same place in our hearts that he holds in the universe.

If we have God in all things while they are ours, we shall have all things in God when they are taken away.

GOD.

There is something in the nature of things which the mind of man, which reason, which human power cannot effect, and certainly that which produces this must be better than man. What can this be but God?- Cicero.

There is a beauty in the name appropriated by the Saxon nations to the Deity, unequalled except by his most venerated Hebrew appellation. They called him "GOD," which is literally "THE GOOD." The same word thus signifying the Deity and His most endearing quality.-Turner.

The demand of the human understanding for causation requires but the one old and only answer, God.-Dexter.

Let the chain of second causes be ever so long, the first link is always in God's hand.-Lavington.

God is a circle whose center is everywhere, and its circumference nowhere.Empedocles.

They that deny a God, destroy man's nobility; for clearly man is of kin to the beasts by his body, and if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.-Bacon.

The ancient hieroglyphic for God was the figure of an eye upon a sceptre, to denote that he sees and rules all things.Barker.

It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such an one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only unbelief-the other is contempt.-Plutarch.

I had rather believe all the fables in the Talmud and the Koran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.-Bacon.

In all the vast and the minute, we see the unambiguous footsteps of the God, who gives its luster to the insect's wing, and wheels his throne upon the rolling worlds. -Cowper.

If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent him.- Voltaire.

Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere.-Emerson.

The very word "God" suggests care, kindness, goodness; and the idea of God in his infinity, is infinite care, infinite kindness, infinite goodness. We give God the name of good: it is only by shortening it that it becomes God.-H. W. Beecher.

At the foot of every page in the annals of nations may be written, "God reigus." Events as they pass away proclaim their original; and if you will but listen reverently, you may hear the receding centu

ries, as they roll into the dim distances of departed time, perpetually chanting "Te Deum Laudamus," with all the choral voices of the countless congregations of the age. -Bancroft.

It is impossible to govern the world with out God. He must be worse than an infidel that lacks faith, and more than wicked that has not gratitude enough to acknowledge his obligation.- Washington.

God is great, and therefore he will be sought he is good, and therefore he will be found.

If in the day of sorrow we own God's presence in the cloud, we shall find him also in the pillar of fire, brightening and cheering our way as the night comes on.

In all his dispensations God is at work for our good.-In prosperity he tries our gratitude; in mediocrity, our contentment; in misfortune, our submission; in darkness, our faith; under temptation, our steadfastness, and at all times, our obedience and trust in him.

God governs the world, and we have only to do our duty wisely, and leave the issue to him.-John Jay.

When the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further. But when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together, it must fly to Providence and Deity.-Bacon.

There is a God in science, a God in history, and a God in conscience, and these three are one.—Joseph Cook.

How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.-Geo. Macdonald.

I have read up many queer religions; and there is nothing like the old thing, after all. I have looked into the most philosophical systems. and have found none that will work without a God.-J. C. Maxwell.

GOD.

was and is supreme, we know by the name of God.

Two men please God-who serves Him with all his heart because he knows Him; who seeks Him with all his heart because he knows Him not.-Panin.

He who bridles the fury of the billows, knows also to put a stop to the secret plans of the wicked.—Submitting to His holy will, I fear God; I have no other fear. Racine.

It is one of my favorite thoughts, that God manifests himself to mankind in all wise, good, humble, generous, great and magnanimous men.-Lavater.

There is nothing on earth worth being known but God and our own souls. Bailey.

A foe to God was never a true friend to man.-Young.

There is something very sublime, though very fanciful in Plato's description of God "That truth is his body, and light his shadow."-Addison.

If God were not a necessary being of himself, he might almost seem to be made for the use and benefit of men.-Tillotson.

We cannot too often think, that there is a never sleeping eye that reads the heart, and registers our thoughts.—Bacon.

I fear God, and next to God I chiefly fear him who fears him not.-Saadi.

The very impossibility which I find to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.-Bruyère.

Amid all the war and contest and variety of human opinion, you will find one consenting conviction in every land, that there is one God, the king and father of all.Maximus Tyrius.

Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little in comparison with eternal realities.-R. M. Mc Cheyne.

The whole world is a phylactery, and everything we see is an item of the wisdom, power, or goodness of God.-Sir Thomas Browne.

As a countenance is made beautiful by the soul's shining through it, so the world is beautified by the shining through it of God.-Jacobi.

God's thoughts, his will, his love, his judginents are all man's home. To think his thoughts, to choose his will, to love his loves, to judge his judgments, and thus to know that he is in us, is to be at home.— George Macdonald.

God should be the object of all our de

sires, the end of all our actions, the principle of all our affections, and the governing power of our whole souls.-Massillon.

In all thine actions think that God sees thee, and in all his actions labor to see him.

That will make thee fear him, and this will move thee to love him.-The fear of God is the beginning of knowledge, and the knowledge of God is the perfection of love.-Quarles.

If we look closely at this world, where God seems so utterly forgotten, we shall find that it is he, who, after all, commands the most fidelity and the most love.-Mad. Swetchine.

What is there in man so worthy of honor and reverence as this, that he is capable of contemplating something higher than his own reason, more sublime than the whole universe-that Spirit which alone is self-subsistent, from which all truth proceeds, without which is no truth?-Jacobi.

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.

GOLD,—(See "MONEY," and "MISER.") Gold is the fool's curtain, which hides all his defects from the world.-Feltham.

The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless; the last corruption of degenerate man.-Johnson.

It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.-Fuller.

Gold, like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls and contracts bad hearts.-Rivarol.

It is observed of gold, in an old epigram, that to have it is to be in fear, and to want it is to be in sorrow.-Johnson.

To purchase heaven has gold the power? can gold remove the mortal hour? in life can love be bought with gold? are friendship's pleasures to be sold? no-all that's worth a wish-a thought, fair virtue gives unbribed, unbought. Cease then on trash thy hopes to bind, let nobler views engage thy mind.-Johnson.

There is no place so high that an ass laden with gold cannot reach it.—Rojas.

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

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