And they were canopied by the blue sky,
So cloudless, clear, and purely beautiful
That God alone was to be seen in heaven.
813
BYRON:  The Dream, St. 4.

The conscious water saw its God and blushed. 814 RICHARD CRASHAW:  Epigram.

From Thee, great God, we spring, to Thee we tend,—­ Path, motive, guide, original, and end. 815 DR. JOHNSON:  Motto to the Rambler, No. 7.

=Gods.=

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us.
816
SHAKS.:  King Lear, Act v., Sc. 3.

Heartily know,
When half-gods go,
The gods arrive.
817
EMERSON:  Give All to Love.

=Gold.=

Gold; worse poison to men’s souls, Doing more murther in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell. 818 SHAKS.:  Rom. and Jul., Act v., Sc. 1.

O cursed lust of gold! when for thy sake The fool throws up his interest in both worlds; First starved in this, then damn’d in that to come. 819 BLAIR:  The Grave, Line 347.

So dear a life your arms enfold,
Whose crying is a cry for gold.
820
TENNYSON:  The Daisy, St. 24.

=Goodness.=

May he live
Longer than I have time to tell his years! 
Ever belov’d, and loving, may his rule be! 
And, when old Time shall lead him to his end,
Goodness and he fill up one monument!
821
SHAKS.:  Henry VIII., Act ii., Sc. 1.

Oh, sir! the good die first,
And they whose hearts are dry as summer’s dust,
Burn to the socket.
822
WORDSWORTH:  Excursion, Bk. i., Line 504.

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever;
Do noble things, not dream them, all day long: 
And so make life, death, and that vast forever
One grand, sweet song.
823
CHARLES KINGSLEY:  A Farewell.

=Good Night.=

At once, good night:—­
Stand not upon the order of your going,
But go at once.
824
SHAKS.:  Macbeth, Act iii., Sc. 4.

Good night! good night! parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night, till it be morrow. 825 SHAKS.:  Rom. and Jul., Act ii., Sc. 2.

To all, to each, a fair good night,
And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
826
SCOTT:  Marmion, Canto vi., L’Envoy.

=Government.=

’T is government that makes them seem divine. 827 SHAKS.:  3 Henry VI., Act 1., Sc. 4.

Each petty hand Can steer a ship becalm’d; but he that will Govern and carry her to her ends, must know His tides, his currents, how to shift his sails; What she will bear in foul, what in fair weathers; Where her springs are, her leaks, and how to stop ’em; What strands, what shelves, what rooks do threaten her. 828 BEN JONSON:  Catiline, Act iii., Sc. 1.

For forms of government let fools contest,
Whate’er is best administer’d is best.
829
POPE:  Essay on Man, Epis. iii., Line 303.