The good, the new, comes exactly from that quarter whence it is not looked for, and is always something different from what is expected. Feuerbach.
The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired. Bacon, from Seneca.
The good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing. (?)
The goods of this world cannot be divided without being lessened; but why be a niggard of that which bestows bliss on a fellow-creature, yet takes nothing from our own means of enjoyment? Burns.
The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to 50 lay where there are eggs already. Spurgeon.
The gospel is at once the assigner of our tasks and the magazine of our strength. Decay of Piety.
The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man. Emerson.
The governing class, who should be working at an ark of deliverance for themselves and us while the hours still are, do nothing but complain, "We cannot get our hands kept rightly warm," and sit obstinately burning the planks. Carlyle.
The government must always be a step in advance of the popular movement. Count Arnim-Boytzenburg.
The government of England is a government of law. Junius.