The love of glory can only create a hero, the contempt of it creates a
wise man.--_Talleyrand._
~Gluttony.~--Whose god is their belly, and whose glory is in their
shame.--_Bible._
The kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their
altar, and their belly their god.--_Buck._
~God.~--He that doth the ravens feed, yea, providentially caters for the
sparrow, be comfort to my age!--_Shakespeare._
To escape from evil, we must be made as far as possible like God; and
this resemblance consists in becoming just and holy and wise.--_Plato._
Whenever I think of God I can only conceive him as a Being infinitely
great and infinitely good. This last quality of the divine nature
inspires me with such confidence and joy that I could have written even
a _miserere_ in _tempo allegro_.--_Haydn._
All flows out from the Deity, and all must be absorbed in him
again.--_Zoroaster._
It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such an opinion as
is unworthy of him; for the one is unbelief, and the other is contumely;
and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity.--_Bacon._
I have seen two miracles lately. I looked up, and saw the clouds above
me in the noontide; and they looked like the sea that was hanging over
me, and I could see no cord on which they were suspended, and yet they
never fell. And then when the noontide had gone, and the midnight came,
I looked again, and there was the dome of heaven, and it was spangled
with stars, and I could see no pillars that held up the skies, and yet
they never fell. Now He that holds the stars up and moves the clouds in
their course can do all things, and I trust Him in the sight of these
miracles.--_Luther._
This avenging God, rancorous torturer who burns his creatures in a slow
fire! When they tell me that God made himself a man, I prefer to
recognize a man who made himself a god.--_Alfred de Musset._
This is one of the names which we give to that eternal, infinite, and
incomprehensible being, the Creator of all things, who preserves and
governs everything by his almighty power and wisdom, and is the only
object of our worship.--_Cruden._
~Gold.~--Midas longed for gold. He got gold so that whatever he touched
became gold, and he, with his long ears, was little the better for
it.--_Carlyle._