The Pursuit of Happiness: A Book of Studies and Strowings

by Daniel G. Brinton

• Quakers, the, [176], [179], [232].
• Quincy, Thomas de, quoted, [201].

• Racial characteristics, [60].
• Rasselas, quoted, [12], [110].
• Reading, as an enjoyment, [139];
  • rules for, [159].
• Reason and religion, [177].
• Recamier, Madame, her friendship, [235].
• Recreations, the best, [115].
• Reflection, pleasure from, [162].
• Religion, happiness from, [169], [172];
  • unhappiness from, [171], [173];
  • true spirit of, [175];
  • of the future, [176], [179], [232];
  • why not mentioned in society, [226].
• Remorse, the pains of, [147].
• Reserve, value of, [189];
  • a help to reputation, [226].
• Resignation, the virtue of, [259].
• Respectability, the revolt against, [45], [46].
• Revenge, as a pleasure, [148].
• Riches, effective and productive, [120];
  • disappointments of, [126].
• Risk, the emotions of, [153].
• Room, the living, [83].
• Rothschild, Baron, opinion of, [99].
• Rousseau, quoted, [28], [84].
• Rules for happiness, why studied, [54].
• Ruskin, J., quoted, [187].

• Schopenhauer, A., quoted, [44].
• Science, the love of, [166];
  • the aim of, [176];
  • and religion, [177];
  • of man, the, [54], [68].
• Security, how obtained, [196].
• Self-abnegation, [24].
• Self-admiration, [191].
• Self-complacency, [192].
  • the lord of, [61].
• Self, conception of, [17];
• Self-conceit corrected, [186].
• Self-consciousness, [17], [20], [52].
• Self-control, [24].
• Self-distrust, appropriate, [194].
• Self-education, principles of, [36].
• Self-publication, [226].
• Self-realization, [17], [56].
• Self recognition, [204].
• Self-revelation not self-publication, [226].
• Self-reverence, [189].
• Self-sufficiency, [47].
• Senancour, de, quoted, [43].
• Seneca, quoted, [19].
• Sensation the sense of existence, [140].
• Senses, the pleasures of, [128].
• Sex, origin of, [60].
• Shakespeare, quoted, [50], [51], [62], [100], [103], [118], [121], [122], [157], [241], [277].
• Sight, the pleasures of, [138].
• Sincerity, importance of, [189].
• Singularity, what it is, [192].
• Small-talk, its value, [224].
• Smell, the pleasures of, [132].
• Smith, Adam, quoted, [210].
• Smith, Sydney, quoted, [141], [201].
• Social organization, the, [196].
• Socialists, the dreams of, [115], [183].
  • maxims for success in, [220];
  • the aim of, [220];
  • the justice of, [227].
• Society, the basis of good, [219];
• Socrates, quoted, [54], [86], [208], [263].
• Solitude, its uses, [204].
• Sophocles, quoted, [214].
• Sorrow, as an educator, [273], [279], [280].
• Sorrows of age, [76].
• Spencer, H., quoted, [10], [36], [202].
• Spinoza, quoted, [16], [17], [155].
• State and individual, the relations of, [48].
• • from failure, [259].
• Steele, quoted, [193], [269].
• Success, what it is, [116];
• Suffering, the education of, [273].
• Suicide, easy, [261].
• Sympathy, whence to seek, [233], [236], [260].

• Table-talk, rules for, [141].
• Talleyrand, quoted, [223].
• Tasso, quoted, [70].
• Taste, the pleasures of, [133]-137.
• Tears, their use, [251].
• Temperaments, the four, [71].
• Tennyson, quoted, [202], [277], [278].
• Thoreau, H., [35], [40].
• Time, its value, [124], [142];
  • relation to happiness, [272].
• Tobacco, the pleasure of, [133].
• Tolerance of others, [187];
  • of pain and sorrow, [254].
• Touch, the pleasures of, [131].
• Truth, the search for as a pleasure, [156], [165];
  • the spirit of, [166];
  • alone gives happiness, [214];
  • ideal, [177];
  • gives freedom, [199].

• Unhappiness, the removal of, [22], [248];
  • as a habit, [252];
  • in marriage, [243].
• Uniforms, the value of, [82].
• Unknown, the, [53].
• Urbanity, value of, [56].

• Variety in dress, [82];
  • to be sought, [47];
  • the rule of, [130].
• Vauvenargues, quoted, [211].
• Veracity a relative matter, [190].
• Virtue, its relation to happiness, [206], [211];
  • and vices, relations of, [214].

• Waitz, Th., quoted, [28], [32].
• War, destructive to virtues, [215].
• Ward, L. F., quoted, [10].
• Wealth, its meaning, [119].
• Weather, how it affects us, [81], [88].
• White race, higher sensation in, [63].
• Whitman, Walt., quoted, [78], [140], [179], [182], [191], [194].
  • to strengthen, [255].
• Will, motives of the, [16];
  • his birth, [102].
• William of Normandy, his wit, [100];
  • education of, [33], [200];
  • physical training of, [66];
  • her clothing, [82], [91];
  • intellectual pleasures of, [158];
  • lack of justice, [33], [205];
  • her attraction for man, [237], [240].
• Woman, unfavorably placed for securing happiness, [30];
  • its healthful action, [255].
• Work, measure of its value, [117];
• World, the, as our country, [90].

• Xavier de Maistre, [83].

• Youth not the happiest period of life, [34], [76];
  • misanthropy of, [194];
  • compared with age, [76], [80], [225].

• Zola, E., quoted, [109].