The best government is not that which renders men the happiest, but that which renders the greatest number happy.—­Duclos.

No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet every one thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades,—­that of government.—­Socrates.

In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man in the world who can think and plan, he will stand head and shoulders above him who cannot.—­Beecher.

The proper function of a government is to make it easy for people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.—­Gladstone.

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.—­James A. Garfield.

Those who think must govern those who toil.—­Goldsmith.

Grace.—­Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.—­Dryden.

The mother grace of all the graces is Christian good-will.—­Beecher.

All actions and attitudes of children are graceful because they are the luxuriant and immediate offspring of the moment,—­divested of affectation and free from all pretence.—­FUSELI.

Grace has been defined, the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.—­Hazlitt.

Gratitude.—­Gratitude is a virtue disposing the mind to an inward sense and an outward acknowledgment of a benefit received, together with a readiness to return the same, or the like, as occasions of the doer of it shall require, and the abilities of the receiver extend to.

He who receives a good turn, should never forget it:  he who does one, should never remember it.—­Charron.

O Lord, that lends me life, lend me a heart replete with thankfulness.—­Shakespeare.

What causes such a miscalculation in the amount of gratitude which men expect for the favors they have done, is, that the pride of the giver and that of the receiver can never agree as to the value of the benefit.—­La ROCHEFOUCAULD.

If gratitude is due from children to their earthly parents, how much more is the gratitude of the great family of man due to our Father in heaven!—­Hosea Ballou.

Grave.—­There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.  There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.  The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.—­Job 3:17, 18, 19.

We go to the grave of a friend saying, “A man is dead;” but angels throng about him, saying, “A man is born.”—­Beecher.

Always the idea of unbroken quiet broods around the grave.  It is a port where the storms of life never beat, and the forms that have been tossed on its chafing waves lie quiet forevermore.  There the child nestles as peacefully as ever it lay in its mother’s arms, and the workman’s hands lie still by his side, and the thinker’s brain is pillowed in silent mystery, and the poor girl’s broken heart is steeped in a balm that extracts its secret woe, and is in the keeping of a charity that covers all blame.—­Chapin.