Universal Good All skill ought to be exertea tor universal good: every man has owed much to others, and ought to repay the kindness which he has received. -Rasselas, chap. 6. Goodness Constitutional Infinite goodness is the source of created existence.-Rambler, No. 44. We can have no dependence upon that instinctive, that constitutional goodness, which is not founded upon principle.-Life. July 21, 1763. Greatness is Nothing can be great which is not right. Goodness Nothing which reason condemns can be suitable to the dignity of the human mind.-Rambler, No. 185. Gout Gout seldom takes the fort by a coup-demain, but turning the siege into a blockade obliges it to surrender at discretion.-Piozzi's Anecdotes, p. 187. Government has the distribution of offices, Government that it may be able to maintain its authority. Life. April 14, 1775. Government No form of Government has been yet discovered by which cruelty can be wholly prevented. If power be in the hands of men it will sometimes be abused.-Rasselas, ch. viii. Grace at Meat A man may as well pray when he mounts his horse, or a woman when she milks her cow.-Journal. August 28. Graciousness The most certain way to give any man pleasure is to persuade him that you receive pleasure from him.-Rambler, No. 72. Grammar, Writing and Three things which, if not taught in very Arithmetic early life, are seldom or ever taught to any purpose, and without the knowledge of which no superstructure of learning or of knowledge can be built.— Anecdotes by William Seward, Esq. Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; Gratitude you do not find it among gross people.Journal. September 20. Greek Greek is like lace; every man gets as much of it as he can.-Life. Langton's Collectanea, 1780. Greek and Those who know them have a very great Latin advantage over those who do not. Nay, it is wonderful what a difference learning makes upon people even in the common intercourse of life, which does not appear to be much connected with it.-Life. July 26, 1763. Grief While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.-Life. April 10, 1776. Grief All grief for what cannot in the course of nature be helped soon wears away; in some sooner indeed, in some later; but it never continues very long, unless where there is madness; for all unnecessary grief is unwise, and therefore will not be long retained by a sound mind. If, indeed, the cause of our grief is occasioned by our own misconduct, if grief is mingled with remorse of conscience, it should be lasting.-Life. September 14, 1777. Grief I think business the best remedy for grief as soon as it can be admitted.-Letter to Mrs. Thrale, No. 260. Grief Grief is a species of idleness; and the necessity of attention to the present preserves us, by the merciful disposition of providence, from being lacerated and devoured by sorrow for the past.-Letter No. 62 to Mrs. Thrale. The Reticence of Grief of Melancholy shrinks from communication. -Rasselas, ch. xlvi. Appointment Do not appoint a number of guardians. Guardians When there are many, they trust one to another, and the business is neglected. I would advise you to choose only one ; let him be a man of respectable character, who, for his own credit, will do what is right; let him be a rich man, so that he may be under no temptation to take advantage; and let him be a man of business, who is used to conduct affairs with ability and expertness, to whom, therefore, the execution of the trust will not be burdensome.-October 4, 1779. Lawful Our senses, our appetites, and our passions, are our lawful and faithful guides in things that relate solely to this life.-Rambler, No. 7. Attachment Mankind have a strong attachment to the to Habitations habitations to which they have been accustomed.-Life. October 26, 1769. Happiness Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness. A peasant has not a capacity for having equal happiness with a philosopher : they may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy.— Life. February, 1766. Happiness Happiness must be something solid and permanent, without fear and without uncer tainty. Rasselas, ch. xvii. Happiness Happiness Hawkins. Deviation from nature, is deviation from happiness.-Rasselas, ch. xxii. No one can be virtuous or happy who is not completely employed.-Anecdotes by Human happiness has always its abateHappiness ments: the brightest sunshine of success, is not without a cloud.-Lives of the Poets. Home Addison. To be happy at home is the ultimate result Happiness of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.-Rambler, No. 68. of Hope The hope of happiness is so strongly imHappiness pressed, that the longest experience is not able to efface it.-Rasselas, ch. xxii. Pursuit of What is to be expected from our pursuit Happiness of happiness, when we find the state of life to be such that happiness itself is the cause of misery.Rasselas, ch. xxxv. Secret None are happy, but by anticipation of Happiness change.-Rasselas, ch. xlvi. of Happiness of The happiness of society depends on virSociety tue. In Sparta, theft was allowed by general consent: theft, therefore, was there not a crime, but then there was no security; and what a life must they have had, when there was no security! Without truth there must be a dissolution of society.-Life. Reciprocity Men seldom give pleasure, where they are Happiness not pleased themselves.-Rambler, No. 74. of Happiness in the Present Health Is man never happy in the present? Never, but when he is drunk.-Life. April 10, 1775. Such is the power of health, that without its co-operation every other comfort is torpid and lifeless as the powers of vegetation without the sun. -Rambler, No. 48. Health Health is equally neglected, and with equal impropriety, by the votaries of pleasure and the followers of business.-Rambler, No. 48. Health after Health begins, after seventy, and long before, to have a meaning different from that which it had at thirty. But it is culpable to murmur at the established order of the creation, as it is vain to |