ore they have, the more they know
their own deficiencies.--_Rousseau._

He who is great when he falls is great in his prostration, and is no
more an object of contempt than when men tread on the ruins of sacred
buildings, which men of piety venerate no less than if they
stood.--_Seneca._

Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right using of
strength.--_Beecher._

Greatness seems in her [Madame de Maintenon] to take its noblest form,
that of simplicity.--_Bulwer-Lytton._

~Grief.~--Why destroy present happiness by a distant misery, which may
never come at all, or you may never live to see it? for every
substantial grief has twenty shadows, and most of them shadows of your
own making.--_Sydney Smith._

Some griefs are medicinable; and this is one.--_Shakespeare._

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.--_Johnson._

Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads.--_P. J. Bailey._

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._

Grief has been compared to a hydra, for every one that dies two are
born.--_Calderon._

Grief, like night, is salutary. It cools down the soul by putting out
its feverish fires; and if it oppresses her, it also compresses her
energies. The load once gone, she will go forth with greater buoyancy to
new pleasures.--_Dr. Pulsford._

What's gone, and what's past help, should be past grief.--_Shakespeare._

~Guilt.~--All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little
hand.--_Shakespeare._

Think not that guilt requires the burning torches of the Furies to
agitate and torment it. Frauds, crimes, remembrances of the past,
terrors of the future,--these are the domestic Furies that are ever
present to the mind of the impious.--_Cicero._

Guiltiness will speak though tongues were out of use.--_Shakespeare._

Despair alone makes guilty men be bold.--_Coleridge._

The sin lessens in human estimation only as the guilt
increases.--_Schiller._

There are no greater prudes than those women who have some secret to
hide.--_George Sand._

~Gunpowder.~--If we contrast the rapid progress of this mischievous
discovery with the slow and laborious advances of reason, science, and
the arts of peace, a philosopher, according to h