~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._
Generosity is the accompaniment of high birth; pity and gratitude are
its attendants.--_Corneille._
It is good to be unselfish and generous; but don't carry that too far.
It will not do to give yourself to be melted down for the benefit of the
tallow-trade; you must know where to find yourself.--_George Eliot._
If cruelty has its expiations and its remorses, generosity has its
chances and its turns of good fortune; as if Providence reserved them
for fitting occasions, that noble hearts may not be
discouraged.--_Lamartine._
~Genius.~--Genius is rarely found without some mixture of eccentricity, as
the strength of spirit is proved by the bubbles on its surface.--_Mrs.
Balfour._