Fun.—There is nothing like fun, is there? I haven't any myself, and I do like it in others. Oh, we need it,—we need all the counter-weights we can muster to balance the sad relations of life. God has made sunny spots in the heart; why should we exclude the light from them?—Haliburton.
Futurity.—The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, the last duty done.—George MacDonald.
We always live prospectively, never retrospectively, and there is no abiding moment.—Jacobi.
Another life, if it were not better than this, would be less a promise than a threat.—J. Petit Senn.
The spirit of man, which God inspired, cannot together perish with this corporeal clod.—Milton.
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Gambling.—Gaming is a kind of tacit confession that the company engaged therein do, in general, exceed the bounds of their respective fortunes, and therefore they cast lots to determine upon whom the ruin shall at present fall, that the rest may be saved a little longer.—Blackstone.
A mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good.—Johnson.
Gems.—How very beautiful these gems are! It is strange how deeply colors seem to penetrate one, like scent. I suppose that is the reason why gems are used as spiritual emblems in the Revelation of St. John. They look like fragments of heaven.—George Eliot.
Generosity.—A friend to everybody is often a friend to nobody, or else in his simplicity he robs his family to help strangers, and becomes brother to a beggar. There is wisdom in generosity as in everything else.—Spurgeon.