GOOD-BREEDING. the highest station, but he must know something more to keep it.-Colton. Give him gold enough, and marry him to a puppet, or an aglet-baby, or an old trot with ne'er a tooth in her head, though she have as many diseases as two and fifty horses; why, nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal.-Shakespeare. A mask of gold hides all deformities.Dekker. How quickly nature falls to revolt when gold becomes her object.-Shakespeare. O cursed lust of gold! when, for thy sake, the fool throws up his interest in both worlds, first starved in this, then damned in that to come !-Blair. How few, like Daniel, have God and gold together.-Bp. Villiers. Gold! in all ages the curse of mankind! -To gain thee, men yield honor, affection, and lasting renown, and for thee barter the crown of eternity.-P. Benjamin. A vain man's motto is, "Win gold and wear it"; a generous, "Win gold and share it"; a miser's, "Win gold and hoard it"; a profligate's, "Win gold and spend it"; a broker's, "Win gold and lend it"; a gambler's, Win gold and lose it"; a wise man's, "Win gold and use it." 66 They who worship gold in a world so corrupt as this, have at least one thing to plead in defence of their idolatry-the power of their idol.-This idol can boast of two peculiarities; it is worshipped in all elimates, without a single temple, and by all classes, without a single hypocrite.Colton. Mammon has enriched his thousands, and has damned his ten thousands.-South. As the touchstone tries gold, so gold tries men.-Chilo. CCOD-BREEDING. NERS and "POLITENESS.") (See "MAN Good-breeding is benevolence in trifles, or the preference of others to ourselves in the daily occurrences of life.-Lord Chatham. Good-breeding is surface Christianity.— O. W. Holmes. Good-breeding is the art of showing men, by external signs, the internal regard we have for them. It arises from good sense, improved by conversing with good company.-Cato. One principal point of good-breeding is to suit our behavior to the three several degrees of men-our superiors, our equals, and those below us.-Swift. Nothing can constitute good-breeding which has not good nature for its foundation.-Bulwer. Good-breeding is the result of much good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others, and with a view to obtain the same indulgence from them.-Chesterfield. A man endowed with great perfections, without good-breeding, is like one who has his pockets full of gold, but always wants change for his ordinary occasions.-Steele. Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing or contributing as much as possible to the ease and happiness of those with whom you converse.-Fielding. Good qualities are the substantial riches of the mind; but it is good-breeding that sets them off to advantage.-Locke. The scholar, without good-breeding, is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic; the soldier, a brute; and every man disagreeable.-Chesterfield. A man's own good-breeding is the best security against other people's ill-manners. It carries along with it a dignity that is respected by the most petulant. Ill-breeding invites and authorizes the familiarity of the most timid. No man ever said a pert thing to the Duke of Marlborough. No man ever said a civil one to Sir Robert Walpole.-Chesterfield. Among well-bred people, a mutual deference is affected; contempt of others disguised; authority concealed; attention given to each in his turn; and an easy stream of conversation maintained, without vehemence, without interruption, without eagerness for victory, and without any airs of superiority.-Hume. Good-breeding shows itself most, where to an ordinary eye it appears the least.Addison. Virtue itself often offends, when coupled with bad manners.-Middleton. The summary of good breeding may be reduced to this rule: "Behave to all others as you would they should behave to you."Fielding. There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good-breeding.— Stanislaus. The highest point of good-breeding is to show a very nice regard to your own dignity, and with that in your own heart, to express your value for the man above you. -Steele. One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of goodbreeding.-Addison. As ceremony is the invention of wise men to keep fools at a distance, so goodbreeding is an expedient to make fools and wise men equal.-Steele. Wisdom, valor, justice, and learning, cannot keep a man in countenance that is possessed with these excellencies, if he wants that inferior art of life and behaviour, called good breeding.-Steele. GOOD HUMOR.-(See "HUMOR.") Good humor is the health of the soul; sadness is its poison.—Stanislaus. Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small, and the laughter abundant.-Washington Irving. This portable quality of good humor seasons all the parts and occurrences we meet with in such a manner that there are no moments lost, but they all pass with so much satisfaction that the heaviest of loads, when it is a load, that of time, is never felt by us.-Steele. Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good humor, which is no more a virtue than drunkenness.-Pope. Good humor will sometimes conquer ill humor, but ill humor will conquer it oftener; and for this plain reason, good humor must operate on generosity; ill humor on meanness.-Greville. GOOD NATURE.-Good nature is the very air of a good mind; the sign of a large and generous soul, and the peculiar soil in which virtue prospers.-Goodman. The current of tenderness widens as it proceeds; and two men imperceptibly find their hearts filled with good nature for each other, when they were at first only in pursuit of mirth and relaxation.-Goldsmith. An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.- Washington Irving. Good nature, like a bee, collects honey from every herb. Ill nature, like the spider, sucks poison from the sweetest flower. Good nature is one of the richest fruits of true Christianity.-H. W. Beecher. Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue-I mean good nature-are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and the staff of life. -Dryden. Good nature is the beauty of the mind, and like personal beauty, wins almost without anything else-sometimes, indeed, in spite of positive deficiencies.--Hanway. A shrewd observer once said, that in walking the streets of a clippery morning one might see where the good natured people lived, by the ashes thrown on the ice before the doors.-Franklin. Good nature is stronger than tomahawks. -Emerson. Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty. It shows virtue in the fairest light; takes off, in some measure, from the deformity of více; and makes even folly and impertinence supportable.-Addison. Good nature is often a mere matter of health. With good digestion we are apt to be good natured; with bad digestion, morose.-H. W. Beecher. Good sense and good nature are never separated; and good nature is the product of right reason. It makes allowance for the failings of others by considering that there is nothing perfect in mankind; and by distinguishing that which comes nearest to excellence, gh not absolutely free from faults, will certainly produce candor in judging. Dryden. GOODNESS.-(See "BENEFICENCE.") There are two perfectly good men : one dead, and the other unborn.-Chinese Proverb. Be not merely good; be good for something.-Thoreau. In nothing do men approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men.-Cicero. There may be a certain pleasure in vice, but there is a higher in purity and virtue. -The most commanding of all delights is the delight in goodness.-The beauty of holiness is but one beauty, but it is the highest. It is the loss of the sense of sin and shame that destroys both men and states.-Independent. He that is a good man, is three quarters of his way toward the being a good Christian, wheresoever he lives, or whatsoever he is called.-South. We may be as good as we please, if we please to be good.-Barrow. Real goodness does not attach itself merely to this life-it points to another world. Political or professional reputation cannot last forever, but a conscience void of offence before God and man is an inheritance for eternity.-Daniel Webster. We can do more good by being good than in any other way.-Rowland Hill. If there be a divine providence, no good man need be afraid to do right; he will only fear to do wrong.-Haygood. To be doing good is man's most glorious task.-Sophocles. To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.-Tryon Edwards. It is a law of our humanity, that man must know good through evil.-No great principle ever triumphed but through much evil.-No man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes.-F. W. Robertson. By desiring what is perfectly good, even when we do not quite know what it is, and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil, widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.-George Eliot. Let a man be never so ungrateful or inhuman, he shall never destroy the satisfaction of my having done a good office.Seneca. The good are heave peculiar care.Ovid. All the fame which ever cheated humanity into higher notions of its own importance would never weigh in my mind against the pure and pious interest which a virtuous being may be pleased to take in my welfare.-Byron. He who loves goodness harbors angels, reveres reverence, and lives with God.Emerson. He is good that does good to others. If he suffers for the good he does, he is better still; and if he suffers from them to whom he did good, he has arrived to that height of goodness that nothing but an increase of his sufferings can add to it; if it proves his death, his virtue is at its summit; it is heroism complete.-Bruyère. I have known some men possessed of good qualities which were very serviceable to others, but useless to themselves; like a sun-dial on the front of a house, to inform and benefit the neighbors and passengers, but not the owner within.-Swift. He that does good to another, does also good to himself; not only in the consequence, but in the very act of doing it; for GOODNESS. the consciousness of well-doing is an ample reward.-Seneca. A good man is kinder to his enemy than bad men to their friends.-Bp. Hall. The good for virtue's sake abhor to sin. -Horace. Never did any soul do good, but it came readier to do the same again, with more enjoyment. Never was love, or gratitude, or bounty practised but with increasing joy, which made the practiser still more in love with the fair act.-Shaftesbury. A good man is influenced by God himself, and has a kind of divinity within him; so it may be a question whether he goes to heaven, or heaven comes to him.-Seneca. The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.- Wordsworth. Experience has convinced me that there is a thousand times more goodness, wisdom, and love in the world than men imagine.Gehles. Nothing can make a man truly great but being truly good and partaking of God's holiness.-M. Henry. It is only great souls that know how much glory there is in being good.-Sophocles. How far that little candle throws his beams! so shines a good deed in a naughty world.-Shakespeare. In the heraldry of heaven goodness precedes greatness, and so on earth it is more powerful. The lowly and lovely may often do more good in their limited sphere than the gifted.--Bp. Horne. Beautiful is the activity which works for good, and beautiful the stillness which waits for good; blessed the self-sacrifice of one, and blessed the self-forgetfulness of the other. Collyer. Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are. To be good is the great thing.-E. H. Chapin. A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past life is to live twice.-Martial. The soul is strong that trusts in goodness.- -Massinger. You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.--Lavater. We must first be made good, before we can do good; we must first be made just, before our works can please God-for when we are justified by faith in Christ, then come good works.-Latimer. |