The less of government the better, if society be kept in peace and prosperity.Channing.

That is the most perfect government under which a wrong to the humblest is an affront to all.-Solon.

Government is not mere advice; it is authority, with power to enforce its laws.Washington.

The principal foundation of all states is in good laws and good arms.-Machiavelli.

The punishment suffered by the wise who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of bad men. -Plato.

Government is only a necessary evil, like other go-carts and crutches.-Our need of it shows exactly how far we are still children. All overmuch governing kills the self-help and energy of the governed.Wendell Phillips.

A man must first govern himself ere he is fit to govern a family; and his family ere he be fit to bear the government of the commonwealth.-Sir W. Raleigh.

In all governments, there must of necessity be both the law and the sword: laws without arms would give us not liberty, but licentiousness; and arms without laws would produce not subjection, but slavery. -Colton.

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

A king may be a tool, a thing of straw; but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough; a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.-Pope.

It is a dangerous thing to try new experiments in a government; men do not foresee the ill consequences that must happen, when they seek to alter the essential parts of it upon which the whole frame depends; for all governments are artificial things, and every part of them has a dependence one upon another.

It is an easy work to govern wise men, but to govern fools or madmen, a continual slavery. It is from the blind zeal and stupidity cleaving to superstition, it is from the ignorance, rashness, and rage attending faction, that so many mad and sanguinary evils have destroyed men, dissolved the best governments, and thinned the greatest nations.-Colton.

Other things being equal, that is the best government which most liberally lets its subject or citizen alone.-Through the

whole range of authority he governs best who governs least.-A. Phelps.

Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion, and ever will be so, as long as the world endures. Plain good intention, which is as easily discovered at the first view as fraud is surely detected at last, is of no mean force in the government of mankind. Genuine simplicity of heart is a healing and cementing principle.Burke.

The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms; armies cannot be maintained without pay; nor can the pay be produced except by taxes.-Tacitus.

The surest way to prevent seditions is to take away the matter of them; for if there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire.-Bacon.

It is necessary for a senator to be thoroughly acquainted with the constitution; and this is a knowledge of the most extensive nature; a matter of science, of diligence, of reflection, without which no senator can possibly be fit for his office.-Cicero.

He who forms the mind of a prince, and implants in him good principles, may see the precepts he had inculcated extend through a large portion of his subjects.Antigonus.

This nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.-Abraham Lin

coln.

Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of cerer ony is the most certain method of bringing either into contempt. The weak must have their inducements to admiration as well as the wise; and it is the business of a sensible government to impress all ranks with a sense of subordination, whether this be effected by a diamond, or a virtuous edict, a sumptuary law, or a glass necklace.-Goldsmith.

God demands of those who manage the affairs of government that they should be courageously true to the interests of the people, and the Ruler of the universe will require of them a strict account of their stewardship.-Grover Cleveland.

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

No government can be free that does not allow all its citizens to participate in the formation and execution of her laws.Every other government is a despotism.Thaddeus Stevens.

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

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

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.

The world is governed by three thingswisdom, authority, and appearance. Wisdom for thoughtful people, authority for rough people, and appearances for the great mass of superficial people who can look only at the outside.

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

It is to self-government, the great principle of popular representation and administration, the system that lets in all to participate in its counsels, that we owe what we are, and what we hope to be.Daniel Webster.

A republican government is in a hundred points weaker than one that is autocratic; but in this one point it is the strongest that ever existed-it has educated a race of men that are men.-H. W. Beecher.

All good government must begin in the home.-It is useless to make good laws for bad people.-Public sentiment is more than law.-H. R. Haweis.

There be three sorts of government, monarchical, aristocratical, and democratical, and they are to fall three different ways into ruin the first, by tyranny; the second, by ambition; the last, by tumults. ---A commonwealth, grounded on any one of these, is not of long continuance; but wisely mingled, each guards the other and makes government exact.-Quarles.

Society is well governed when the people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the laws.-Solon.

The very idea of the power and right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.- Washington.

He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself, richly endued with depth of understanding and height of knowledge.-Massinger.

All government and exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based on love, and directed by knowledge, is tyranny.-Mrs. Jameson.

A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.-Grover Cleveland.

Power exercised with violence has seldom been of long duration, but temper and moderation generally produce permanence in all things.-Seneca.

The aggregate happiness of society, which is best promoted by the practise of a vir tuous policy, is, or ought to be, the end of all government.- Washington.

No government is respectable which is not just. Without unspotted purity of public faith, without sacred public principle, fidelity, and honor, no mere forms of government, no machinery of laws, can give dignity to political society.-Daniel Webster.

A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely; a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand.-Landor.

The worst of governments are always the most changeable, and cost the people dearest.-Butler.

The only choice which Providence has graciously left to a vicious government is either to fall by the people if they become enlightened, or with them, if they are kept enslaved and ignorant.-Coleridge.

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

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

It seems to me a great truth, that human things cannot stand on selfishness, mechanical utilities, economics, and law courts; that if there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable, and doomed to ruin.Carlyle.

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

When Tarquin the Proud was asked what was the best mode of governing a conquered city, he replied only by beating down with his staff all the tallest poppies in his garden.-Livy.

It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than even by good laws.-Aristotle.

Nothing will ruin the country if the people themselves will undertake its safety; and nothing can save it if they leave that safety in any hands but their own.--Daniel Webster.

For forms of government let fools contest. That which is best administered is best.-Pope.

It may pass for a maxim in state, that the administration cannot be placed in too few hands, nor the legislation in too many. -Swift.

Few consider how much we are indebted to government, because few can represent how wretched mankind would be without it.-Addison.

When any of the four pillars of government, religion, justice, counsel, and treasure, are mainly shaken or weakened, men had need to pray for fair weather.- Bacon.

All free governments, whatever their name, are in reality governments by public opinion; and it is on the quality of this public opinion that their prosperity depends.-J. R. Lowell.

GRACE. "What is grace?" was asked of an old colored man, who, for over forty years, had been a slave.-"Grace," he replied, "is what I should call giving something for nothing."

The king-becoming graces are justice, verity, temperance, stableness, bounty, perseverance, mercy, lowliness, devotion, fortitude. patience, courage, -Shake

speare.

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.

Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful.-Cicero.

The Christian graces are like perfumes, the more they are pressed, the sweeter they smell; like stars that shine brightest in the dark; like trees which, the more they are shaken, the deeper root they take, and the more fruit they bear. Beaumont.

That word "Grace," in an ungracious mouth, is profane.-Shakespeare.

Virtue, wisdom, goodness, and real worth, like the loadstone, never lose their power. These are the true graces, which are linked hand in hand, because it is by their influence that human hearts are so firmly united to each other.-Burton.

Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.-Jonathan Edwards. God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.-H. W. Beecher.

The growth of grace is like the polishing of metals. There is first an opaque surface; by and by you see a spark darting out, then a strong light; till at length it sends back a perfect image of the sun that shines upon it.-Payson.

There is no such way to attain to greater measure of grace as for a man to live up to the little grace he has.-Brooks.

Grace comes into the soul, as the morning sun into the world; first a dawning; then a light; and at last the sun in his full and excellent brightness.-T. Adams.

You pray for the graces of faith and hope and love; but prayer alone will not bring them. They must be wrought in you through labor and patience and suffering. -They are not kept put up in bottles for us, to be had for the mere asking; they must be the outgrowth of the life.-Prayer for them will be answered, but God will have us work out each one in the way of duty.-H. W. Beecher.

The being of grace must go before the increase of it; for there is no growth without life, and no building without a foundation.-Lavington.

As grace is first from God, so it is continually from him, as much as light is all day long from the sun, as well as at first dawn or at sun-rising.-Jonathan Edwards.

As heat is opposed to cold, and light to darkness, so grace is opposed to sin.-Fire and water may as well agree in the same vessel, as grace and sin in the same heart. -T. Brooks.

GRACEFULNESS.-Grace is to the body, what good sense is to the mind. Rochefoucauld.

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

Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.-Hazlitt.

All the actions and attitudes of children are graceful because they are the offspring of the moment, without affectation, and free from all pretense.-Fuseli.

Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart-rendered to God for his goodness.-N. P. Willis.

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

In noble hearts the feeling of gratitude has all the ardor of a passion.-Poincelot.

A grateful thought toward heaven is of itself a prayer.-Lessing.

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

Gratitude to God makes even a temporal blessing a taste of heaven.-Romaine.

Our thanks should be as fervent for mercies received, as our petitions for mercies Bought.-C. Simmons.

He that urges gratitude pleads the cause both of God and men, for without it we can neither be sociable nor religious.Seneca.

He enjoys much who is thankful for little; a grateful mind is both a great and a happy mind.-Secker.

He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestows should never remember it.- Charron.

To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.-Franklin.

He who acknowledges a kindness has it still, and he who has a grateful sense of it has requited it.-Cicero.

When I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were rich.-Pope.

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

-Seneca.

Those who make us happy are always thankful to us for being so; their gratitude is the reward of their benefits.-Mao. Swetchine.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres or a little money: and vet for the freedom and command of the whole earun,

and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.-Seneca.

O Lord, who lends me life, lend me a heart replete with thankfulness.-Shakespeare.

From David learn to give thanks for everything.-Every furrow in the Book of Psalms is sown with the seeds of thanksgiving.-Jeremy Taylor.

No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.Colton.

God is pleased with no music below so much as with the thanksgiving songs of relieved widows and supported orphans; of rejoicing, comforted, and thankful persons.-Jeremy Taylor.

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

Gratitude to God should be as habitual as the reception of mercies is constant, as ardent as the number of them is great, as devout as the riches of divine grace and goodness is incomprehensible.-C. Sim

mons.

Gratitude is a virtue most deified and yet most deserted; it is the ornament of rhetoric and the libel of practical life.J. W. Forney.

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.

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

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

If gratitude is due from children to their earthly parent, how much more is the gratitude of the great family of men due to our father in heaven.-H. Ballou.

GRAVE. A grave, wherever found, preaches a short and pithy sermon to the sonl.-Hawthorne.

Earth's highest station ends in "Here he lies;" and "Dust to dust" concludes the noblest song.-Young.

The grave 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 moldering before him.-Washington Irving.

It is sadness to sense to look to the grave, but gladness to faith to look beyond it.

A Christian graveyard is a cradle, where, in the quiet motions of the globe, Jesus rocks his sleeping children.-By and by he will wake them from their slumber, and in the arms of angels they shall be translated to the skies.-G. B. Cheever.

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

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.-H. W. Beecher.

All along the pathway of life are tombstones, by the side of which we have promised to strive for Heaven.

The churchyard is the market-place where all things are rated at their true value, and those who are approaching it talk of the world and its vanities with a wisdom unknown before.-Baxter.

When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies within me; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out.-Addison.

We go to the grave of a friend, saying, "A man is dead," but angels throng about him, saying, A man is born."-H. W. Beecher.

We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.-Tryon Edwards.

Of all the pulpits from which the human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.Ruskin.

O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living. -Philip of Macedon.

The ancients feared death; we, thanks to Christianity, fear only dying.-Guesses at Truth.

I like that ancient Saxon phrase which calls the burial ground "God's acre!" It is just; it consecrates each grave within its walls, and breathes a benison over the sleeping dust.-Longfellow.

Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.-Shirley.

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

Too much gravity argues a shallow mind -Lavater.

Those wanting wit affect gravity, and go by the name of solid men.-Dryden.

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

The very essence of assumed gravity is design, and consequently deceit; a taught trick to gain credit with the world for more sense and knowledge than a man is worth.-Sterne.

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 on reflection.-Landor.

All the sobriety religion needs or requires is that which real earnestness produces.When men say "be sober," they usually mean "be stupid."-When the Bible says "be sober," it means "rouse up to the earnestness and vivacity of life."-The old scriptural sobriety was effectual doing ; ascetic sobriety is effectual dullness.-H. W. Beecher.

As in a man's life, so in his studies, 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.

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

Gravity is but the rind of wisdom; but it is a preservative rind.-Joubert.

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

Gravity must be natural and simple; there must be urbanity and tenderness in it. A man must not formalize on everything. He who does so is a fool; and a grave fool is, perhaps, more injurious than a light fool.-Cecil.

Gravity is the ballast of the soul, which keeps the mind steady.-Fuller.

There is a care for trifles which proceeds from love and conscience, and which is most holy; and there is a care for trifles which comes of idleness and frivolity, and 18 most base.-And so, also, there is a grav ity proceeding from thought, which is most