The gown is hers that wears it, and the world is his who enjoys it. Pr.
The graceful minuet-dance of fancy must give 5 place to the toilsome, thorny pilgrimage of understanding. Carlyle on the transition from the age of romance to that of science.
The grand encourager of Delphic and other noises is the echo. Carlyle.
"The grapes are sour," said the fox when he could not reach them. Pr.
The gravest events dawn with no more noise than the morning star makes in rising. All great developments complete themselves in the world, and modestly wait in silence, praising themselves never, and announcing themselves not at all. We must be sensitive and sensible if we would see the beginnings and endings of great things. That is our part. Ward Beecher.
The great agent of the march of the world is pain, the unsatisfied being that craves for development and is ill at ease in the process. Renan.
The great and rich depend on those whom 10 their power or their wealth attaches to them. Rogers.
The great art of ruling consists for most part in persuading the people to believe that whatever happens happens through us. Cötvös.
The great artist is the slave of his ideal. Bovee.
The great cause of revolutions is this: that, while nations move onward, constitutions stand still. Macaulay.