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Gardens
A sensitive plant in a garden grew,
And the young winds fed it with silver dew.
SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE
Who loves a garden still his Eden keeps.
Amos Bronson Alcott
The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom He had formed.
Old Testament
Many things grow in the garden that were never sowed there.
Proverb
Generosity
True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed on us by law.
Oliver Goldsmith
It is easy to become generous with other people’s property.
Latin Proverb
Genius
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
EDISON, THOMAS ALVA
I have nothing to declare except my genius.
WILDE, OSCAR
Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
Benjamin Disraeli
Genius must be born; it never can be taught.
John Dryden
Genius is the power of lighting one’s own fire.
John Foster
Genius begets great works; labour alone finished them.
Joseph Joubert
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is imossible for talent is genius.
Henri-Federic Amiel
I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.
Max Beerbohm
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason and imagination, rearely or never.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Patience is a necesary ingredient of genius.
Benjamin Disraeli
Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.
Havelock Ellis
A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
Jane Ellice Hopkins
God
All things bright and beautiful,
All creatures great and small,
All things wise and wonderful,
The Lord God made them all.
ALEXANDER, CECIL FRANCES
God Almighty first planted a garden and indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
BACON, FRANCIS
We will answer their demand for a gold standard by saying to them: You shall not press down upon the brow of labour this crown of thorn. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
BRYAN, WILLIAM JENNINGS
The conscious water saw its God, and blushed.
CRASHAW, RICHARD
His tribe were God Almighty’s gentlemen.
DRYDEN, JOHN
All love is lost but upon God alone.
DUNBAR, WILLIAM
The kiss of the sun for pardon,
The song of the birds for mirth,
One is nearer God’s Heart in a garden
Than anywhere else on earth.
GURNEY, DOROTHY FRANCES
An honest God is the noblest work of man.
INGERSOLL, ROBERT GREEN
And each, in his separate star, Shall draw the Thing as he sees it for the God of things as They are!
KIPLING, RUDYARD
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us.
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
If God were not a necessary Being of himself, He might almost seem to be made for the use and benefit of men.
TILLOTSON, JOHN ROBERT
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
VOLTAIRE, FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET DE
Goodness
For the cause that lacks assistance,
For the wrong that needs resistance ,
For the future in the distance,
And the good that I can do.
BANKS, GEORGE LINNAEUS
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
BLAKE, WILLIAM
How sad and bad and mad it was But then, how it was sweet!
BROWNING, ROBERT
A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterward.
ROOSEVELT, THEODORE
More than that no man is entitled to and less than that no man shall have.
ROOSEVELT, THEODORE
Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
If all the good people were clever,
And all clever people were good,
The world would be nicer than ever
We thought that it possibly could.
WORDSWORHT, DAME ELIZABETH
Government
And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.
BURKE, EDMUND
The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or party.
CALHOUN, JOHN CALDWELL
I believe that without party
Parliamentry government is impossible.
DISRAELI, BENJAMIN
No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
DISRAELI, BENJAMIN
Every nation has the government it deserves.
JOSEPH MARIE
And thus Bureaucracy, the giant power wielded by pigmies, came into the world.
Honore De Balzac
The marvel of history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
William E. Borah
The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau.
James F. Byrnes
A thousand years scarce serve to form a state; An hour may lay it in the dust.
Lord Byron
Self government is the natural government of man.
Henry Clay
No man has any right to rule who is not better than the people over whom he rules.
Cyrus The Elder
Gratitude
Earth produces nothing worse than an ungrateful man.
Ausonius
Next to ingratitude, the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.
Hanry Ward Beecher
He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestows should never remember it.
Pierre Charron
When I’m not thanked at all I’m thanked enough.
Henry Fielding
How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is
To have a thankless child.
Shakespeare
To the generous mind the heaviest debt in that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.
Benjamin Frankliin
I will not be as those who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.
Samuel Johnson
Gratitude is the least of virtues, but ingratitude the worst of vices.
Proverb
A man who is ungrateful is often less to blame than his benefactor.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Do you like gratitude? I don’t. If pity if akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing.
George Bernard Shaw
Greatness
We carry within us the wonders we seek without us. There is all Africa and her prodigies in us.
BROWNE, SIR THOMAS
To be great is to be misunderstood.
EMERSON, RALPH WALDO
Nothing great was ever achieved without entusiasm.
EMERSON, RALPH WALDO
The world’s great men have not commonly been scholars, nor its scholars great men.
HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL
Always to excel, and be distinguished above others.
HOMER
Lives of great men all remind us We can mane our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.
LOCKE, JOHN
The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.
MENCKEN, HENRY LOUIS
For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
All creatures are the family of God; And he the most beloved is of God who does most good unto his family.
PROPHET MUHAMMAD
There be three things which make a nation great and prosperous: a fertile soil, busy workshops, easy conveyance for men and goods from place to place.
Francis Bacon
Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.
Edmund Burke
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world cannot live at the level of its great men.
James Frazer
No really great man ever thought himself so.
William Hazlitt
There would be no great ones if there were no little ones.
George Herbert
There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.
Charles Dudley Warner
Greed
What man calls civilization always results in deserts. Man is never on the square—he uses up the fat and greenery of the earth. Each generation wastes a little more of the future with greed and lust for riches.
Don Marquis
Grief
The glory dies not, and the grief is past
BRYDGES, SIR SAMUEL EGERTON
You may my glories and my state depost,
But not my griefs; still am I king of those.
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
Everyone can master a grief but he that has it.
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
Patch grief with proverbs.
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
It is dangerous to abandon one’s self to the luxury of grief: it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery.
Henri-Frederic Amiel
There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.
Cicero
Grief is the agony of an instant: the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
Benjamin Disraeli
If our inward griefs were seen written on our brow, how many would be pitied who are now envied.
Metastasio
Grief is a tree that has tears for its fruit.
Philemon
Guilt
The man of upright life and pure from guilt.
HORACE
The pot calls the keetle black.
Cervantes
Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed.
Cicero
The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.
Cicero
He who flies proves himself guilty.
Danish Proverb
Secret guilt by silence is betrayed.
John Dryden
Men’s minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.
Livy
He that knows no guilt can know no fear.
Philip Massinger
He declares himself guilty who justifies himself beofre accusation.
Proverb
Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed.
William Wordsworth