Zwei sind der Wege, auf welchen der Mensch zur Tugend emporstrebt, / Schliesst sich der eine dir zu, thut sich der andre dir auf, / Handelnd erreicht der Glückliche sie, der Leidende duldend; / Wohl ihm, den sein Geschick liebend auf beiden geführt—There are two roads on which man strives to virtue; one closes against thee, the other opens to thee; the favoured man wins his way by acting, the unfortunate by endurance; happy he whom his destiny guides him lovingly on both. Schiller.
Zweierlei Arten giebt es, die treffende Wahrheit zu sagen; / Oeffentlich immer dem Volk, immer dem Fürsten geheim—There are two ways of telling the pertinent truth—publicly always to the people, always to the prince in private. Goethe.
Zwischen Amboss und Hammer—Between the anvil and the hammer. Ger. Pr.
Zwischen heut' und morgen sind Grüfte, zwischen Versprechen und Erfüllen Klüfte—Between to-day and to-morrow are graves, and between promising and fulfilling are chasms. Rückert.
Zwischen Lipp' und Kelchesrand / Schwebt 10 der dunkeln Mächte Hand—Between cup and lip hovers the hand of the dark powers. F. Kind.
Zwischen uns sei Wahrheit—Let there be truth between us. Goethe.
INDEX.
⁂ The first number refers to the page, the second to the number of the quotation on the page.
[A], [B], [C], [D], [E], [F], [G], [H], [I], [J], [K], [L], [M], [N], [O], [P], [Q], [R], [S], [T], [U], [V], [W], [Y], [Z]
A.
Aaron, in absence of Moses, [532], 4
Abasement and elevation, [471], 6
Abbot, who burnt his fingers, [322], 27
Abiding, blessedness of, [30], 50
Abilities, natural, and culture, [290], 13;
like natural plants, [290], 12
Ability, combined with experience, [383], 37;
contentment with one's, [199], 49;
dependent on activity, [443], 27;
dependent on will, [37], 56;
everything in art, [60], 9;
how to know one's, [507], 49;
superior, use of, [407], 2;
the height of, [434], 24;
trying to surpass one's, [497], 18;
why conjoined with poverty, [451], 3
Able man, described, [7], 19;
importance of finding and installing, [106], 22; [427], 38;
men, why not rich, [451], 3
Abode, man's, in the future, [415], 27
Above, things, nothing to us, [361], 15;
those, have ends, [479], 30
Absent, an ideal person, [415], 28
Absenteeism, moral, [521], 41
Abstract terms, emptiness of, [161], 45
Abstractions, lofty, versus complexities at hand, [240], 3
Absurd man, the, [223], 20
Absurdity, no, without its champion, [89], 51;
some slow in discerning, [181], 16
Abundance, effect of, on reason, [199], 2;
love of, [147], 54
Abuse, as against use, [1], 4; [2], 31;
no argument against use, [95], 43, 44;
provocative of abuse, [47], 41;
what is unsusceptible of, [534], 27
Abuses, as matter of sport, [260], 33
Accent, a pervading country, [469], 29
Accessible, discrimination of, from inaccessible, [471], 34
Accidents, behaviour under all, [243], 39;
rare, pleasure in, [316], 22
Accommodation, mutual, law of the world, [548], 5
Accord, perfect, with whom alone possible, [305], 39
Accusing spirit, and the oath, [415], 31
Acheron, greedy, [88], 21
Achieved, the, to him who looks forward, [55], 7
Achievement, exulting in, [473], 42
Achievements, greatest, first reception of, [432], 4
Achilles, the great, see, [207], 44
Acknowledgment, exacting a grateful, [426], 16
Acquaintance, large, wasteful of time, [175], 42
Acquaintances and friends, [268], 34
Acquaintanceship, expecting happiness from, [148], 11
Acquirement, every fresh, value of, [90], 56
Acquisition, unjust, [507], 40
Acquisitions, new, a burden, [297], 24
Act, an immortal seed grain, [36], 39;
who does not, dead, [551], 10
Acting according to thought, difficult, [489], 28
Action, a great source of, [362], 41;
a rule of, [546], 33;
a seed of circumstances, [163], 14;
all vital, unconscious, [184], 44;
an unwarrantable, [412], 53;
and thought, the worlds of, [465], 8;
best and only correct, [418], 3;
civil, second to doing a good, [297], 41;
contrasted with narrative, [289], 39;
contrasted with thought, [61], 25;
delayed, swallowed up by time, [486], 36;
dependent on will, [474], 37;
dumb, [55], 9;
effect of, as contrasted with thought, [485], 41;
effect of, on time, [349], 29;
every, measure of, [89], 52;
good, dependence of, on good cheer, [126], 35;
good, power of, [75], 7;
great, the effect on us of, [21], 47;
greater than sentiment, [91], 52;
hasty, contrasted with long pondering, [229], 34;
healthy, [153], 38;
how to test, [149], 47;
in, chief qualification, [184], 27;
involuntary, [3], 57, 58;
not thought, end of man, [425], 12;
our fairest, [427], 4;
our spontaneous, [339], 22;
power of, [224], 30;
real, the element of, [369], 11;
rectitude of, and intention, [370], 34;
relation of, to thought, [58], 37; [484], 47;
rule for, [114], 44;
rule of, [274], 45;
sole basis of, [205], 21;
spirit of, everything, [454], 32;
tendency of, [174], 5;
to be with decision, [57], 45;
true rule of, [92], 29;
virtue in, [334], 44;
voluntary, [38], 22;
worth of, dependent on motive, [163], 7, 10
Actions, brilliant, often matter of shame, [529], 1;
effect on us of our, [227], 22;
good, effect of, [128], 49;
good, in secret, [128], 48;
great, crowned, [133], 6;
great, eloquence, [434], 14;
how measured by wise men and fools, [108], 55;
more significant than words, [493], 41;
not to be hastily judged, [277], 21;
our epochs, [481], 20;
the importance of, [486], 1;
words, [562], 4;
wrong, apologies for, [377], 12
Activity, a noble and courageous, security of, [93], 52;
effect of, on the soul, [400], 5;
life without scope for, [205], 42;
man's, ever ready to relax, [266], 26;
reconciling effect of, [84], 39;
sole source of cheerfulness, [415], 6;
transforming power of, [66], 26;
undisciplined, hopelessness of, [505], 45;
without insight, [476], 7
Actor, might instruct a parson, [79], 20;
well-graced, interest in, [19], 33
Acts, great success of, due to fortune, [82], 32;
great, great thoughts in practice, [135], 21;
great, origin of, [133], 2;
illustrious, inspiring, [182], 18;
individual, not to be judged, [114], 13;
men's, detectives, [568], 17;
our, our angels, [337], 5
Actual, all from great mystic deep, [395], 24;
in relation to ideal, [395], 9;
the ideal, [415], 33
Adaptation, a sovereign rule, [387], 29
Address, value of, to boy, [122], 47
Adieu, a sweet, [395], 27
Administer, ability to, [93], 36
Admiration, and imitation, step between, [470], 5;
and love, [525], 34;
as a feeling, [305], 33;
contrasted with love, [63], 54;
elevating power of, [316], 34; [443], 25;
power of true, [460], 28;
the power of, [525], 20, 21;
unwise, contrasted with unwise contempt, [325], 21
Admonition, not readily forgiven, [274], 18
Adore, man to, not to question, [263], 36
Adulation, attendant on wealth, [259], 16;
the evil of, [104], 7;
to people and to kings, [107], 24
Advance, who does not, [364], 19
Advanced, age, a symbol of, [524], 26;
man, unhappy, [261], 19;
thinker, self-satisfaction of, [513], 32
Advancing in life, [490], 27
Advantage, or disadvantage, as motives, [202], 38;
to be taken, [209], 24;
price of, [9], 5
Adverbs, significance of, [126], 46
Adventure, commended, [217], 24;
for story's sake, [165], 39
Adventurers, good done by, [38], 38
Adventures, possible in life, [533], 26
Adversaries, merits of, how to treat, [85], 36
Adversities, how alone to overcome, [446], 9
Adversity, a school, [472], 30;
as a test, [97], 48;
as a teacher, [22], 46;
behaviour in, [89], 11;
brave spirit in, [2], 8;
compared with prosperity, [221], 48; 358, [22], 24, 26, 27;
contrary effects of, [438], 43;
effect of, on a man, [512], 23;
enlightening power of, [559], 25;
heroic endurance of, [145], 34;
man struggling with, and his deliverer, [432], 26;
more bearable than prosperity, [110], 33;
more tolerable than contempt, [268], 47;
rule for, [189], 22;
temper for, [5], 13;
test of strength, [177], 53; [175], 13;
use of, [408], 20;
virtue of, [460], 42;
what it brings to light, [215], 34
Advice, bad, [261], 32, 33;
best, [417], 32;
common motive in asking, [284], 32, 33;
giving and taking, [524], 13;
giving, and the wisdom to profit by it, [524], 12;
gude, seasonable, [137], 9;
medical, [300], 35;
men liberal with, [330], 13;
motive for asking, [522], 29;
of those who are well, [98], 46; [179], 5;
person to give, [335], 15;
rule in giving, [368], 19; [384], 11;
to be followed, if good, [172], 10;
unacceptable, [161], 34;
wanted and not wanted, [415], 34
Advisement, good, good, [320], 34
Adviser, to conceal his superiority, [61], 18
Advising, [368], 20, 21
Advocate, trade of, Carlyle on, [403], 20
Afar, the, [445], 12
Affairs, change of, change of men, [295], 46
Affectation, a confession, [489], 31;
essence of, [425], 31;
in style, [323], 29
Affection, display of, to be distrusted, [547], 30;
due to man, [58], 41;
effect of absence on, [2], 12;
entire, characteristic of, [83], 43;
great, and deep veneration, incompatible, [201], 8;
private, effect of, on judgment, [357], 7;
profound, characteristic of, [339], 34;
selfishly sought after, [177], 14;
tragic effects of wounded, [138], 36;
true, described, [507], 36;
value of, [420], 15
Affections, holy, the band of, [40], 40;
how won, [105], 15; [330], 37;
our, characteristic of, [337], 7;
our greatest tyrants, [324], 40;
the proper objects of, [387], 47;
to be moderated, [56], 31;
without a tap-root, [566], 13
Affinities, spiritual, as a bond, [166], 17
Affirmation before denial, [243], 35
Affirmatives, wanted, [71], 37
Afflicted, the, of God, helplessness of, [45], 3; [531], 36
Affliction, weakness of being daunted by, [542], 40
Agamemnon, brave men before, [517], 7
Age, and youth, characteristics of, [53], 26;
a thought to present to, [508], 40;
as a teacher, [21], 14;
compared with youth, [568], 37, 45, 49; [469], 2;
crabbed, and youth, [49], 30;
distrustful, [37], 16;
effect of, on our views of life, [444], 36;
emancipation from one's, impossible, [303], 20;
every, has its characteristics, [39], 52;
glory of, [430], 11;
golden, whither fled, [64], 27;
in man and in woman, [124], 15;
of gold, the true, [23], 31;
old, bashfulness in, [25], 61;
our, characterised, [337], 9, 10;
present, characterised, [525], 25;
surest sign of, [456], 27;
the function of, [60], 23;
the riddle of, how to be solved, [451], 34;
the self-satisfaction of, [186], 30;
this, chief curse of, [420], 6;
weakening effect of, [328], 11;
without brains, [341], 16
Agencies to be economised, [117], 4
Ages, great, characteristic of, [10], 43;
the, and the hours, [435], 35
Agnosticism of doubt, and that of devotion, [415], 43
Agreeable, art of being, [458], 34;
condition of being, [474], 28;
to be, every one's duty, [90], 13
Agreement, an indifferent, commended, [15], 38
Agriculture, advantages of, [329], 8;
occupation in, [411], 15
Aid at call, [482], 11
Aim, a lower, secured by devotion to a higher, [415], 26;
to, not enough, [569], 27
Alacrity in sinking, [166], 32
Alarm, who sounds, safe, [83], 29
Alchemists, discoveries of, [415], 49
Alchemy, [18], 29
Alcohol, pure, the thing wanted, [534], 14
Alexander the Great at the tomb of Achilles, [320], 26;
Juvenal on, [509], 4;
his tomb, [400], 18
All, co-operation with, [314], 28;
for man's good, [111], 34;
forsaking, finding all, [323], 33;
how one whole, [488], 11;
in flux, [10], 54;
in nothing, [185], 53;
the, incomprehensibility of, [141], 33;
the law and all the prophets, [220], 5;
reflex of, in every man, [92], 35;
things from above, [328], 9;
things, how to subject, [563], 32;
things of same stuff, [328], 7;
to be found in No, [319], 22
Allegiance, to fallen lord, merit of, [145], 34
Allegory, a transparent palace, [222], 5
Alliance with a powerful man, [318], 49
Alliteration, [17], 10
Allotted, the, and the non-allotted, [536], 39;
what is, and what is not, [414], 41
Alms, a rule in, [184], 46;
giving, but not thought, [492], 40;
to go before, [243], 14
Almsgiving, [305], 48
Alms-people, Ruskin's, [287], 38
Alone, doubly, [544], 28;
the word, [564], 34
Alphonso of Castile, saying of, [327], 30
Altitude to unpractised eye, [496], 36
Amateur, not to be discouraged, [416], 3
Ambassador, Wotton's definition of, [14], 18
Ambition, a dream, [73], 3;
a noble, [470], 13;
a shadow's shadow, [167], 16;
a vain, [322], 7;
and love, wings to great deeds, [258], 6;
as a motive, [399], 1;
danger of, [2], 33;
effect on mind of, [133], 32;
fling away, [107], 45; [165], 28;
end of, [266], 3;
for place and greatness, [321], 32;
freedom from, [485], 30;
great, from great character, [133], 8;
height of, [326], 15;
hurtful vice, [161], 17;
in Cæsar, [545], 21;
man's, [397], 33;
minds most and least actuated by, [276], 12;
Mme. de Pompadour on, [474], 1;
no, in heaven, [187], 21;
not to be too high-pitched, [243], 42;
often vain, [87], 11;
parent of virtue, [484], 9;
slavery, [14], 19;
toil and vanity of, [249], 44;
vaulting, [511], 48;
way of, [556], 14
Ambitions followed by adulation, [416], 4
Ambition's hands, washing of, [19], 9
Ambitious, man and his masters, [222], 43;
men, the risk to, [543], 1;
thoughts, [25], 47
Amen, let me say, [241], 35
Amendment, first impulse to, [386], 9;
though civilisation should go, [168], 34
America, a forecast of, [512], 20;
the only true, [184], 48
Americans, and English, [427], 44;
Emerson on, [335], 8
Amiss, nothing, with simpleness and duty, [296], 2
Amusement, good of, [569], 23;
versus business, [173], 18;
wish of society, [396], 38
Anarchy, and tyranny, [504], 14;
death, [131], 13
Ancestors, deeds of, not ours, [88], 8;
our, [332], 12;
our duty to, [527], 40;
people who disrespect, [345], 20;
who has no need of, [553], 27
Ancestry, boasting of, [145], 21; [271], 10; [473], 2;
who has nothing but, to boast of, [150], 46
Anchor, that holds, [36], 38;
to the soul, [544], 36
Anchorage for man, [494], 24;
necessary in this world, [208], 33
Anchoring, no, fast, [377], 8
Ancients, and moderns, teachings of, compared, [416], 7;
our masters in morals, [521], 20;
that don't grow old, [432], 44;
we, [521], 9
Anecdote, value of one, [331], 37
Angel, the recording, and the oath, [415], 31;
the recording, no fable, [451], 4
Angel's face, her, [154], 47;
visits, [249], 38, 39
Angel-visits, [37], 27
Angels, and accommodation for them, [443], 10;
as created, [94], 22;
Disraeli on side of the, [450], 27;
men one day, [526], 13;
Swedenborg on, [187], 22;
the best, not in community, [417], 48;