How many friendships have you known Friendship formed upon principles of virtue? Most friendships are formed by caprice or by chance, mere confederacies in vice or leagues in folly.-Life. May 19, 1784. Friendship Friendship Life has no pleasure higher or nobler than that of friendship.-Idler, No. 23. That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of the same kind.-Rambler, No. 64. Those that have loved longest love best. Friendships A friend may be found and lost; but an old friend never can be found, and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost.-Letter to Mrs. Thrale, No. 327. Limits Few love their friends so well as not to Friendship desire superiority by inexpensive benefaction. of -The False Alarm. Friendship of The friendship of students and of beauties. Students and Beauties is for the most part equally sincere and equally durable: they are both exposed to perpetual jealousies, and both incessantly employed in schemes to intercept the praises of each other.-Adventurer, No. 45. Frugality Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty. Frugality Frugality is not only the basis of quiet, but of beneficence. No man can help others that wants help himself; we must have enough before we have to spare.-Life. Letter to Boswell. February, 1783. Fruit in its No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting himself with the flowers of spring. Rasselas, ch. xxix. Every thing future is to be estimated by a Futurity wise man, in proportion to the probability of attaining it, and its value when attained.-Rambler, No. 20. It is good to speak dubiously about Futurity futurity. It is likewise not amiss to hope. -Letter 198 to Mrs. Thrale. When we are become purely rational, Future State many of our friendships will be cut off. Many friendships are formed by a community of sensual pleasures all these will be cut off. We form many friendships with bad men, because they have agreeable qualities, and they can be useful to us; but, after death, they can no longer be of use to us. We form many friendships by mistake, imagining people to be different from what they really are. After death, we shall see every one in a true light. Then, they talk of our meeting our relations; but then all relationship is dissolved; and we shall have no regard for one person more than another, but for their real value. However, we shall either have the satisfaction of meeting our friends, or be satisfied without meeting them.-Life. March 27, 1772. It is scarcely possible to pass an hour in Gaming honest conversation, without being able when we rise from it, to please ourselves with having given or received some advantages; but a man may shuffle cards, or rattle dice, from noon to midnight, without tracing any new idea in his mind; or being able to recollect the day by any other token than his gain or loss, and a confused remembrance of agitated passions and clamorous altercations.-Rambler, No. 8o. Gaming I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsocial man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good. Trade gives employment to numbers, and so produces intermediate good.-Life. April 6, 1772. Gaming It is not roguery to play with a man who is ignorant of the game, while you are master of it, and so win his money: for he thinks he can play better than you as you think you can play better than he; and the superior skill carries it.-Life. 6, 1772. April Is not every garden a botanical garden?— A Botanical Garden Life. June 4, 1781. Gatrick's Genius [Οι φίλοι, οὐ φίλος] He had friends, but no friend.-Life. April 24, 1779. People are not born with a particular genius or particular employments or studies; for it will be like saying that a man could see a great way east, but could not west.-Anecdotes by Miss Reynolds. Genius Genius The highest praise of genius is original invention.-Life of Milton, Vol. II. Genius is the parent of truth and courage; and these, united, dread no opposition.Account of the Life of Benvenuto Cellini. Genius not Gentility and A Gentleman No man is a rhetorician or philosopher by chance.-Adventurer, No. 115. It is certain that a man may be very immoral with exterior grace.-Life. When you have said a man of gentle manners, you have said enough.—Life. Langton's Collectanea, 1780. Gloominess It is not becoming in a man to have so little acquiescence in the ways of Providence, as to be gloomy because he has not obtained as much preferment as he expected.-Life. June 2, 1781. Gloominess When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints, but exert your whole care to hide it. By endeavouring to hide it you will drive it away. Be always busy.-Life. The Gloomy The gloomy and the resentful are always and Resentful among those who have nothing to do, or who do nothing.-Idler. Female Gluttony Gluttony is less common among women than among men. Women commonly eat more sparingly, and are less curious in the choice of meat; but if once you find a woman gluttonous, expect from her very little virtue. Her mind is enslaved to the lowest form and grossest temptation.-Letter to Mrs. Thrale, No. 315. Goldsmith No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had. -Life. Langton's Collectanea, 1780. Man must be very different from other Good Living animals, if he is diminished by good living; for the size of all other animals is increased by it. Journal. Good Living Our chairmen from Ireland, who are as strong men as any, have been brought up upon potatoes. Quantity makes up for quality.—Life. October 26, 1769. Doing Good The Highest I make a rule, to do some good every day of my life.-Piozzi's Anecdotes, p. 376. The utmost excellence at which humanity can arrive, is a constant and determinate pursuit of virtue.-Rambler, No. 185. Good in All Things In all lead there is silver; and in all copper there is gold.-The False Alarm. |