He prayeth well who loveth well
Both man and bird and beast;
He prayeth best who loveth best

All things, both great and small;
For the dear God, who loveth us,
He made and loveth all.

Coleridge.

O hand of bounty, largely spread,
By whom our every want is fed!
Whate'er we touch, or taste, or see,
We owe them all, O Lord, to thee;
The corn, the oil, the purple wine,
Are all thy gifts, and only thine.

Thou art, O God, the life and light
Of all this wondrous world we see;
Its glow by day, its smile by night,
Are but reflections caught from thee.
Where'er we turn, thy glories shine,
And all things fair and bright are thine.

Heber.

Thomas Moore.

Good Breeding.

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.

Good qualities are the substantial riches of the mind; but it is good breeding that sets them off to advantage.

J. Locke.

Nothing can constitute good breeding that has not good nature for its foundation. Bulwer Lytton.

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.

J. Swift.

The scholar, without good breeding, is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic; the soldier, a brute; and every man, disagreeable. Chesterfield.

There is certainly something of exquisite kindness and thoughtful benevolence in that rarest of gifts— good breeding. Bulwer Lytton.

Nothing, except what flows from the heart, can render even external manners truly pleasing. Blair.

Bad manners are a species of bad morals. A conscientious man will not grossly offend in that way.

Bovee.

Truth, justice, and reason, lose all their force and all their luster when they are not accompanied by agreeable manners.

Thomson.

GOOD NATURE-GOODNESS.

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Good Nature.

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.

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.

Good sense and good nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.

Dryden.

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 vice, and makes even folly and impertinence supportable.

Addison.

Goodness.

GOODNESS is generous and diffusive; it is largeness of mind and sweetness of temper; balsam in the blood, and justice sublimated to a richer spirit.

Jeremy Collier.

True goodness is like the glow-worm in this, that it shines most when no eyes, except those of Heaven, are upon it.

Hare.

A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. Pleasure bestowed upon a grateful mind was never sterile, but generally gratitude begets reward.

Basil.

Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward things we are. To be, is the great thing. Chapin.

A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence, is to live twice.

To be good is to be happy; angels

Martial.

Are happier than men, because they're better.

N. Rowe.

How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Shakespeare.

I count this thing to be grandly true,
That a noble deed is a step toward God,
Lifting the soul from the common sod

To a purer air and a broader view.

J. G. Holland.

Rouse to some work of high and holy love,
And thou an angel's happiness shalt know-
Shalt bless the earth while in the world above:
The good begun by thee shall onward flow
In many a branching stream, and wider grow;
The seed, that in these few and fleeting hours,
Thy hands unsparing and unwearied sow,
Shall deck thy grave with amaranthine flowers,
And yield thee fruits divine in heaven's immortal bowers.

C. Wilcox.

. Some there are

By their good deeds exalted, lofty minds,

And meditative authors of delight

And happiness, which to the end of time
Will live, and spread, and flourish.

Wordsworth.

Gratitude.

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

Charron.

The feeling of gratitude has all the ardor of passion in noble hearts.

Achilles Poincelott.

From David learn to give thanks in everything. Every furrow in the book of Psalms is sown with seeds of thanksgiving. Jeremy Taylor.