ry few men that are both great and good.--COLTON.

A really great man is known by three signs,--generosity in the design,
humanity in the execution, and moderation in success.--BISMARCK.

Nothing can make a man truly great but being truly good and partaking
of God's holiness.--MATTHEW HENRY.

The greatest truths are the simplest; so are the greatest men.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness
thrust upon them.--SHAKESPEARE.

No man has come to true greatness who has not felt in some degree that
his life belongs to his race, and that what God gives him, He gives
him for mankind.--PHILLIPS BROOKS.

Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be
great.--EMERSON.

GRIEF.--Grief is the culture of the soul, it is the true fertilizer.
--MADAME DE GIRARDIN.

Light griefs are plaintive, but great ones are dumb.--SENECA.

If the internal griefs of every man could be read, written on his
forehead, how many who now excite envy would appear to be the objects
of pity?--METASTASIO.

Excess of grief for the deceased is madness; for it is an injury to
the living, and the dead know it not.--XENOPHON.

All the joys of earth will not assuage our thirst for happiness; while
a single grief suffices to shroud life in a sombre veil, and smite it
with nothingness at all points.--MADAME SWETCHINE.

What an argument in favor of social connections is the observation
that by communicating our grief we have less, and by communicating our
pleasure we have more.--GREVILLE.

They truly mourn that mourn without a witness.--BYRON.

Alas! I have not words to tell my grief;
To vent my sorrow would be some relief;
Light sufferings give us leisure to complain;
We groan, we cannot speak, in greater pain.
--DRYDEN.

It is folly to tear one's hair in sorrow, as if grief could be
assuaged by baldness.--CICERO.

Dr. Holmes says, both wittily and truly, that crying widows are
easiest consoled.--H.W. SHAW.

Who fails to grieve, when just occasion calls,
Or grieves too much, deserves not to be blest:
Inhuman, or effeminate, his heart.
--YOUNG.

Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may
elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate.--HORACE
GREELEY.

Every one can master a grief but he that has it.--SHAKESPEARE.

GRUMBLING.--When a man is full of the Holy Ghost, he i