Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

visits of, let pass, [430], 34
Anger, a majestic, [471], 7;
a man who provoked to, silences it, [551], 34;
a punishment to one's self, [490], 7;
ability to moderate, [281], 18;
best antidote to, [271], 22;
best restraint upon, [142], 9;
dissolved in menaces, [552], 44;
end of, [540], 21;
for nothing to no purpose, [482], 28;
how to avoid, [215], 27;
how to overcome, [240], 16;
no guard to itself, [296], 1;
of a strong man, [416], 8;
often unreasonable, [466], 44;
restraint of, [142], 49;
slowness to, [147], 19, 20;
the bridle of, [272], 13;
the end of, [62], 44;
to burn slow, [240], 21;
unreasonable, with others, [28], 13;
unrestrained, evil of, [364], 18;
with one we love, [491], 3
Angler, the born, [568], 18
Angling, Izaak Walton on, [526], 18;
like humility, [567], 40
Angry at all, angry for nothing, [148], 47;
man beside himself, [159], 15
Anguish, great purifying power of, [6], 64
Animal, denial of, in man, [416], 47;
every, loves itself, [327], 42;
life of an, [439], 1
Animals summed up in man, [264], 19
Annihilation, no such thing as, [377], 7
Annoyances, the smallest, effect of, [453], 51
Annoying others, [144], 21
Answer, a perfect, [145], 31;
the shortest, [453], 27;
wise, how to get a, [177], 26; [531], 43
Ant, a silent preacher, [316], 23;
lesson of, [125], 3;
the, example of, [342], 16
Antæus, meaning of the fable, [122], 18
Antagonist, a prudent, [218], 10;
how to meet an, [373], 1;
an, not to be underrated, [307], 46
Anthropomorphism in thought, [60], 32
Antiquary, memory of, characterised, [21], 42
Antique, the, our admiration of, [337], 6
Antiquity, chief moral agent of, [453], 11;
divided from us only by age, [109], 2;
the world's youth, [16], 13
Antony over Cæsar's body, [33], 33
Anvil and hammer, [30], 31; 74, [20], 30
Anxiety, effect of, [198], 10;
misery of, [34], 41;
Plato on, [340], 18;
specific against, [220], 11;
to be despised, [62], 24
Ape, perfect, versus degenerate man, [181], 6
Aphorism, a short but certain, [323], 33;
essence of, [425], 37;
true salt of literature, [271], 16
Aphorisms, only words, [534], 9;
the value of, [65], 38
Apollo to Phaëthon, [106], 34
Apology, Christian, [487], 15;
from want of sense, [307], 7;
who needs no, [19], 32
Apostle and preacher, different aims of, [224], 11
Apostates never genuine believers, [479], 54
Apothegms, practical ineffectuality of, [185], 16
Apparel, and the man, [416], 11;
proclaims the man, [48], 36;
singularity in, [149], 1
Appearance, deceptiveness of, [23], 13;
minus reality, [61], 23;
neglect of, becoming in man, [112], 31;
versus reality, [325], 47
Appearances, and reality, [481], 34;
deceptiveness of, [7], 52; [18], 23; [305], 17;
first, deceptive, [56], 32;
keeping up, [421], 14;
mere, mislead, [277], 7;
not to be trusted, [116], 39;
power of, [61], 22;
science of, [102], 36;
value of, [534], 32
Appetite, a satisfied, incredulous of hunger, [48], 13;
a well-governed, [24], 54;
allures to destruction, [163], 16;
change of, with age, [72], 13;
cruelty of, [546], 23;
from eating, [222], 25;
ideal of, [88], 5;
in youth, [7], 14
Appetites, unanswered, ground of complaint, [275], 42
Applaud to the very echo, [169], 19
Applause, dependence on, [152], 13;
gaining, and avoiding censure, [202], 20;
popular, not fame, [219], 56;
popular, the poison of, [320], 28;
reward of virtue, [278], 11;
to be regarded with suspicion, [545], 42
Application, felicitous, merit of a, [471], 12;
importance of right, [475], 4
Appreciation and criticism, [201], 27
Apprenticeship, no man's completed, [391], 13
Approved man, the, [312], 31
Aptitudes, to be tested, [79], 7
Arc, the, that we see, all that is drawn, [524], 44
Arch-enemy, the, [416], 14
Archer, how known, [14], 22
Archimedes, and his prop, [72], 4;
exclamation of, [89], 8
Architect, a fellow-worker, [446], 42
Architecture, attraction of, [174], 23;
Greek, character of, [136], 9;
the best, [417], 33
Arguing, disingenuous, [145], 25;
rule in, [185], 7
Argument, contrasted with testimony, [412], 48;
folly of heat in, [323], 38;
the best, [227], 22;
vain against nature, [166], 38;
versus instruction, [370], 8
Arguments, wagers for, [108], 49
Aristocracies that do not govern, [356], 46
Aristocracy, an, the likely fate of, [13], 53;
essence of, [425], 36;
the, defined, [360], 37;
the right basis of, [229], 24
Aristocrat, a young, Iphicrates to, [287], 44
Armada, Spanish, scattering of, [5], 42
Armies not to be stamped out, [217], 3
Arms, a last resort, [328], 25;
and peace, [18], 8
Army, a school of morality, [416], 18;
book to study life in, [416], 17;
like a serpent, [14], 25
Arrogance, how fostered, [407], 20
Art, a great step in study of, [553], 20;
a haven of refuge, [265], 31;
a love for, test of, [472], 42;
a test of, [300], 43;
a wise man's, defined, [540], 27;
achievement in, [155], 9;
ancient and modern, contrasted, [14], 37, 38;
ancient, and modern science, [534], 11;
and Christianity, [420], 19;
and deception, life with, [566], 24;
and life, [516], 17;
and morals, laws of identical, [64], 25;
and nature, compared, [290], 28;
and nature, perfection by, [272], 43;
and morals, rules in, compared, [188], 15, 16;
and religion, [372], 13;
and the religious passion, [451], 13;
as the spirit is, [550], 16;
different appreciations of, [53], 32;
without breath of life, [237], 4;
capability everything in, [130], 26;
condition of perfection in, [265], 23;
contrasted with criticism, [225], 5;
contrasted with manufacture, [550], 16;
display of to be distrusted, [504], 40;
done for money, Ruskin on, [540], 40;
easily learned, [414], 29;
concealment of elaboration in, [54], 28;
Emerson's definition of, [421], 28;
false ambition in, [191], 20;
first and last secret of, [287], 46;
genuine, the raison d'être of, [91], 5;
great, the work of full manhood, [9], 12;
great, Ruskin's definition of, [9], 38;
highest achievement of, [435], 10;
highest, characterised, [434], 36;
highest problem of, [435], 7;
highest subject of, [60], 19;
how far teachable, [205], 10;
how to attain proficiency in, [292], 24;
ignoble, test of, [300], 43;
imitation of nature, [328], 41;
in, ability everything, [60], 9;
in, the only good, [173], 5;
inversion and subversion of, [545], 23;
less expressive than affection, [5], 40;
life of, [416], 12;
measure of love of, [567], 22;
mediæval and modern, [431], 14;
mediæval and modern, compared, [188], 1, 2;
misfortune in, [442], 34;
more than strength, [204], 18;
necessity in, [539], 33;
noble, expression of a great soul, [308], 12;
noblest, [465], 20;
object of, [445], 16;
of both divine and earthly inspiration, [22], 30;
no patriotic, [473], 44;
perfection of, [18], 28;
principle and aim of, [66], 8;
produced hastily, [416], 24;
products, nought and not bad, [357], 48;
question as regards, [450], 29;
rated by gold, [48], 43;
sayings about, [65], 16-18;
secret of power of, [207], 3;
sine quâ non of, [100], 1;
teaching of, [456], 42;
technical skill in, [451], 13;
the best in, [186], 2;
the chief matter in any, [35], 47;
the claims of, [247], 47;
the faculty of, [426], 46;
the great in, defined, [540], 44;
the greatest, [452], 43;
the ideal in, [54], 7;
the last step of, [392], 10;
the laws of, [438], 26;
the oldest, a mushroom, [290], 22;
the theatrical, [431], 8;
to learned and unlearned, respectively, [70], 27;
true, characterised, [499], 38, 39;
unintelligible to the head alone, [433], 22;
unquickened from above and within, [507], 53;
when to be called fine, [136], 10;
who knows, half or wholly, [552], 5;
without enthusiasm, [316], 29;
worthless, apart from nature, [139], 20
Artifice, danger and disgrace of, [225], 9
Artisan at home everywhere, [361], 25
Artisans and artists, [184], 36
Artist, a bad and a good, distinguished, [323], 16;
an, essence of, [474], 27;
and his age, [416], 26;
and his art, [205], 10; [416], 28;
and his work, [416], 25; [512], 30;
and society, [14], 30;
at thought of mob, [65], 30;
conceiving and executing, [416], 27;
destructive influence of society on, [396], 12;
function of, [462], 10;
great, and his ideal, [431], 12;
greatest, characterised, [434], 36;
his function, [334], 45;
his praise in his work, [55], 8;
his true praise, [265], 5;
measuring tools of, [14], 29;
modesty in, merit of, [410], 38;
necessity of sight to, [448], 40;
good, mark of, [418], 15;
true praise of, [14], 28;
Ruskin's definition of, [14], 27; [14], 30;
spiritual, born blind, [454], 40;
the best, [426], 28;
the greatest, as defined by Ruskin, [143], 49;
vocation of, [416], 29;
truth in hand of, [18], 57
Artist-work, the most important, [301], 1
Artistes, conceit of, [218], 23
Artists, ancient, aim of, [208], 27;
and artisans, difference between, [184], 36;
great and feeble, distinctions between, [534], 34;
inventing and at work, [60], 28;
no standard for amateurs, [416], 3
Arts, a family of sisters, [421], 8;
all fine, related, [10], 38;
and nature, [221], 39;
conditions necessary for, [421], 22;
great, contrasted with false, [133], 9;
on what their vitality depends, [425], 21;
the fine effect of culture of, [168], 42;
the fine, mother and father of, [444], 12;
the fine, secret of, [182], 17;
the fine, the aim in, [188], 45;
the fine, what we know in, [190], 37;
the perfection of the, [447], 25;
the principle and aim of, [66], 8;
to learned and unlearned, [438], 33;
useful mother and father of, [444], 12
Asbestos, fate of what is not of, [541], 3
Ashes, live in their wonted fires, [77], 28;
the, of your sires, [394], 45
Asketh, he that, [93], 32
Asking, timid, [364], 50;
twice better than going wrong, [28], 33; [29], 48
Aspiration, its effect on us, [539], 36;
persistent, of mankind, like a compass to a ship, [447], 29
Ass, bray of, [367], 38;
why offensive, [85], 25;
dreams of the, [58], 16;
man with a head of, [41], 23;
mistaking itself for a stag, [41], 8;
never more than an ass, [171], 46;
rather an, that carries us, [29], 26;
the hungry, [222], 31;
the kick of, how to treat, [171], 45
Assertion no proof, [27], 6;
without discrimination, Dante on, [40], 58
Asses know asses, [79], 6
Assistance, a universal necessity, [304], 16;
mutual, a law of nature, [180], 43
Association of ideas, [257], 47
Associations, old, not to be bought, [526], 6
Assuming, the most, [479], 16
Assurance doubly sure, [167], 49
Astray, who walks, [551], 16
Atheism, moral root of, [277], 18;
Plato on, [466], 42;
practical, defined, [395], 10;
what it amounts to, [301], 3
Atheist by night, [34], 7;
no good man, [211], 26
Atheist's God, the, [301], 3
Athene, the goddess, [430], 18
Athens and Greece, [556], 6
Atonement, commencement of, [421], 11
Attachment, personal, as a ground of public conduct, [346], 51;
powerful, effect of, [354], 51;
the law of, [337], 13;
tokens of, [133], 10
Attainment, satisfactory, [313], 26
Attempt begun to be carried through, [24], 18
Attention, evil effect of constant, [46], 54
Attorney's epitaph, [155], 15
Auctioneer, the, at a non-plus, [358], 10
Audacity, the effect of, [346], 39
Augustine's prayer for deliverance, [245], 7
Auld, acquaintance, [389], 33;
Nickie Ben, Burns' address to, [102], 18
Austerity superseded, [544], 31
Australia, fertility of, [75], 50
Author, and his brother authors, [301], 5;
cares of an, [311], 20;
compared with his works, [301], 5;
enraged, [49], 35;
fastidious about his style, [543], 2;
genius not enough for, [208], 13;
how to understand an, [177], 44;
most engaging powers of, [459], 28;
in the regard of publisher, [301], 6;
popular, wish of, [84], 18;
profession of, [278], 44;
reading an, [524], 37;
rule in choosing, [42], 44;
unconsciously portrays himself, [90], 2;
who should not be, [150], 6;
without gift of selection, [151], 6
Authority, a test of character, [474], 25;
based on injustice, [194], 24;
based on kindness and force, [144], 5;
gentleness in, commended, [175], 14;
conduct of people in, [345], 1;
how founded, [330], 39;
how to destroy, [219], 2;
how weakened, [314], 12;
not to be lightly resisted, [304], 8;
of a greater, submission to, [449], 2;
provocative of disobedience, [548], 21
Authors, and their works, [284], 11;
Horace's advice to, [406], 30;
most original, [444], 3;
of a people, their worth, [420], 5;
three classes of, [468], 24;
to be content with choice readers, [379], 27;
young, error of, [568], 8
Authorship, three difficulties of, [468], 25; [497], 9
Avarice, and luxury compared, [258], 11;
compared with poverty, [354], 18, 35;
contrasted with poverty,
62, 43;
how created, [204], 39; [488], 32;
in contrast with gluttony, [124], 42;
no, in hell, [137], 21;
subduing, profit of, [230], 44
Avaricious, the, [386], 27;
the, their affectation, [50], 32
Avengement, man's part, [65], 35
Avenue, every, barred now, [317], 29
Awkwarkness, cause of, [521], 15;
sign of genius, [133], 22
Awoke and found myself famous, [165], 10
Axioms, only words, [534], 9
Aye or no, the power of, [189], 41
B

Bachelors, old, why there are, [415], 25
Back, defence of, [488], 38;
going, when easy and when impossible, [492], 44;
rather than wrong, [381], 1
Backbiter, and face-flatterer, the same, [300], 29
Backsliding, fatal, [478], 19
Bacon, fruitlessness of his teachings, [314], 34;
treatment of, [349], 20;
unconcern about his name, [110], 26
Bad, as a doctor, [129], 35;
at strife with good, [382], 8;
for sake of good, [125], 42;
ground, pains not to be wasted on, [297], 16;
in the thinking, [315], 2;
man always suspicious, [80], 32;
man, his enemies, [416], 45;
man, opponents of, [59], 44;
man, pretending to be good, [261], 38;
men, ability of, [477], 19;
mistaken for good, [417], 38;
nothing and no one absolutely, [218], 7, 13;
nothing, if understood, [78], 40;
nothing so, as we think, [378], 47;
once, bad always, [386], 23;
railing against, deprecated, [71], 37;
the fear of, [436], 18;
the, sparing, [31], 33; [148], 23;
thing, worthless, [1], 8;
when good, [331], 32
Bairns, young and old, and their parents, [543], 9
Ballads, more powerful than laws, [241], 33
Ballot-box, a leveller, [33], 45
Banishment, bitter bread of, [76], 17
Baptism, with water and with fire, [186], 15
Barbarian, a, [150], 38
Barbarism, defined, [549], 31;
first step from, [495], 10
Barbarous, character, traits of, [475], 31;
man, first spiritual want of, [428], 37
Bargain, a, and the purse, [6], 38;
a good, a loss, [31], 39;
to be clear, [260], 23
Bargains, confined to man, [263], 1;
great, no economy, [178], 45;
third party to, [470], 34
Barrel-organ in a slum, [170], 45
Barter, passion for, [77], 51
Base, and depraved training in, [70], 26;
man, a, who means to be your enemy, [541], 34
Baseness, at heart, effect of, on character, [542], 7;
irrespective of looks, [112], 37;
provision for turning, into nobleness, [21], 23
Bashfulness, a defect, [180], 30;
without merit, [278], 20
Bathing, no, twice in the same river, [302], 52
Battalions, the heaviest, God with the, [329], 27
Battle, a, won, Wellington on, [444], 45;
all, misunderstanding, [9], 14;
ceasing for want of combatants, [88], 22;
each man alone in, [190], 36;
necessary to victory, [401], 46;
won, as sad as one lost, [297], 35
Battlefield, mercy on the, [331], 11
Battlefields, world's, [465], 23
Bayonets, Napoleon on, [566], 31
Be, to, not to be, [490], 32
Be-all and end-all, [412], 54
Bear and endure, [346], 9, 10
Beard, or no beard, [146], 41;
pride of, [170], 46
Beast, no, without some pity, [301], 8;
ungovernable, how to manage, [188], 43
Beasts, wild and tame, to be avoided, [324], 44
Beau, Fielding's definition of, [1], 13
Beaufort, Cardinal, last words of, [537], 24
Beautiful, a manifestation, [417], 7;
and good, [417], 8; [430], 39;
benefit of, [540], 41;
capacity for, rare, [325], 12;
compared with rational, [331], 48;
effect of fostering, [113], 55;
Emerson on, [315], 37;
feeling for, to be cultivated, [264], 3;
formerly holy, [185], 50;
foundation of, [417], 10;
how to find, [526], 32;
in curves, [187], 43;
like sunshine, [417], 9;
nothing, by itself, [314], 45;
nothing, out of place, [206], 2;
only in song, [114], 25;
souls, short-lived, [162], 29;
the alone, [482], 34;
the, and the rude craftsman, [510], 51;
the, in the form, [23], 42;
the, lot of, [513], 21;
the, reconciliation of good and true, [518], 17;
things, the two most, [459], 27;
test of the, [313], 43;
to be encouraged, [460], 15
Beauty, a fragile good, [112], 30;
a sign of purity, [153], 37;
a thing of, [21], 37;
adoration of, [273], 29;
aim of the world, [208], 28;
all, in man, [312], 35;
and folly, [26], 14;
and life in the small, [189], 51;
and the eternal, inseparable, [153], 52;
and virtue, rarely combined, [110], 42;
and worship of, Goethe on, [66], 9;
as seen, undefinable, [567], 44;
as truth, [520], 22;
attractive power of, [1], 16;
basis and essence of, [540], 25;
born a, born married, [42], 6;
complex, [488], 22;
contrasted with grace, [131], 36-38;
contracted with grace and innocence, [66], 10;
contrasted with grandeur, [132], 8;
dead, chaos comes again, [109], 47;
defined, [197], 26;
dependence of, on expression, [97], 50;
effect of contrast on, [47], 33;
Elysian, [81], 4;
everywhere, [290], 35;
fair point of the line of, [427], 3;
final aim of art, [66], 8;
fleeting, [70], 15;
forms of, compared, [1], 15;
human, effect of sight of, [301], 40;
ideal, fugitive, [436], 10;
ideal of, [436], 11;
in a plain dress, [447], 47;
in common lives, [476], 20;
in the purest sense, [469], 10;
like a leaf, [225], 20;
moral power of, [382], 16;
mortal, [22], 27;
not always blessed, [322], 34;
not separable from the eternal, [153], 52;
not vain, because fading, [197], 4;
of a rainbow character, [523], 4;
one, mortification to another, [292], 8;
only seen in suffering, [379], 37;
personal, power of, [129], 60;
persuasive power of, [10], 10;
possibility of, [471], 5;
principal ingredient in, [511], 41;
seat and sources of, [507], 34;
seldom unconscious, [105], 3;
sense of, and duty, [453], 9;
sought for pleasure, [20], 36;
sources of, [184], 40;
subtle attraction of, [99], 42;
the best part of, [413], 29;
the nature of, [406], 40;
too great, effect on sight of, [403], 5;
unconsciousness of, rare, [105], 3;
undemonstrable, [331], 23;
vain, [103], 24;
why snarled at, [274], 49;
with modesty, rare, [368], 3;
without modesty, [313], 42;
without virtue, [99], 25; [224], 20;
worship of mere, [465], 28
"Because" our concern, not "why," 556, 13
Becoming, the, defined, [535], 45
Bed, a silken, kindly, [332], 21;
the conjugal, [386], 32
Bede's tomb, inscription on, [138], 26
Bedlam, how tenanted, [253], 47
Bee, little busy, [161], 11
Bees, keeping of, [437], 26
Beggar, and king, [190], 8;
and rich, different feelings of, [531], 32;
at his level, [460], 12;
Lamb on, [417], 11-17;
on horseback, [387], 40, 41;
pains taken by Nature in forming, [292], 26
Beggar'd all description, [155], 2
Beggar's, bag, [28], 54;
purse, [1], 19;
robes, [367], 39;
the, song, [530], 11
Begging, apt to provoke disgust, [88], 32;
shame of, to be spared, [123], 2
Beginning, a bad, [1], 6;
a good, [6], 39;
a hot, course and end of, [15], 6;
and end, contrast of, [194], 26;
cheerful, [8], 59; [90], 5;
contrasted with ulterior steps, [9], 15;
difficult, [8], 60;
implies an end, [48], 12;
most notable, [186], 40;
no, rather than never end, [29], 34;
prior to improving or finishing, [345], 4;
the true, unnoticed, [458], 35
Beginnings to be resisted, [356], 59
Begun, half done, [25], 49; [68], 30
Behaviour, contagious, [109], 21;
end of education, [77], 9;
in private, [58], 14;
learned, as we take diseases, [275], 20;
rule for, [394], 46;
the first sign of force, [347], 4
Being, all, founded on reason, [9], 3;
every, has its own beauty, [91], 35;
resigned with regret, [112], 2, 3;
the chain of, [511], 47
Beings, above us and beneath us, a wise man's attitude to, [199], 48
Belial, the sons of, [445], 33
Belief, a, easy to a man, [203], 16;
and conduct, inconsistency of, [264], 2;
and disbelief, dangerous, [346], 18;
a miracle, [197], 16;
alternations of, [173], 30;
affected by custom, [523], 26;
easier than judgment, [93], 38;
eludes system, [163], 15;
flower of, in the last darkness, [544], 7;
general ground of, [9], 28;
impotent to change nature, [301], 10;
in absurdity, [49], 50;
limiting, by comprehensibility, [148], 48;
modern, [565], 49;
multiform, [476], 19;
now-a-days, only half-hearted, [275], 41;
often unintelligent, [274], 4;
one's, effect on, of another's, [200], 49;
only in practice, [457], 19;
or disbelief, no compelling, [302], 36;
our, in others, [521], 29;
power of, [538], 22; [532], 28;
power of a firm, [27], 19;
that is contrary to truth, [301], 11;
the, we incline to, [539], 38;
variations of, from generation to generation, [305], 4;
versus debate, [12], 13;
want of, to be concealed, [461], 15;
what regulates our, [528], 6
Beliefs, two, necessary to fulfilling our duty, [525], 23;
various as men, [274], 24
Believers, traditional, the god of, [430], 15
Believing, man, the, the original, [442], 8;
three means of, [468], 27;
unhasting, [145], 19;
without seeing, merit of, [30], 45
Bell, church, inscription on, [231], 5
Bells, church, [64], 26
Bell-wethers, men have their, [267], 28
Belly, a slave to, [417], 27;
empty, effect of, on body, [545], 25;
full, effect of, on spirit, [545], 25
Belongings, our chief, inalienable, [450], 3
Beloved, how to be, [490], 14;
object, centre of a paradise, [90], 6;
of the Almighty, [417], 28
Below, things, nothing to us, [361], 10
Benefactor, how we regard, [527], 24
Benefactors, how to treat, [71], 26
Beneficence, defined, [28], 3;
fruitful effects of, [1], 22;
tree of, well-rooted, [549], 18
Benefit, a high, compared with a low, [198], 46;
affected by manner of conferring it, [475], 1;
given quickly, [194], 38;
that sticks to fingers, [478], 15;
to one worthy of it, [28], 1
Benefits, our sense of, [385], 20;
remembered, and not, [144], 54
Benevolence, impossible to one ill at ease, [305], 40;
rare, [368], 6;
universal, pretenders to, [480], 14
Benevolent, heart, our regard for, [417], 30;
mistaken occupation of, [417], 31
Berries, two lovely, moulded on one stem, [395], 33
Best, a test of, [413], 20;
inexplicable by words, [562], 8;
liable to abuse, [110], 27;
man, Emerson's, [145], 31;
man, moulded out of faults, [479], 26;
nearest, [12], 58;
safety of, [540], 42;
the, in the world, [537], 11;
the, inexplicable by words, [67], 18;
the, a sufferer, [417], 50;
things, the law regarding, [427], 39;
when corrupted, [48], 27;
who does his, [55], 13
Bestride the narrow world, [142], 26
Betrayal, only by friends, [330], 8
Betrayer, the, defined, [418], 14
Better, and worse without limit, [184], 7;
enemy of well, [179], 36; [234], 6;
side of things, looking at, [543], 34;
the, the greater, [34], 37
Bible, a, all have to publish, [538], 15;
and the Jews, [418], 23;
an idol, [274], 36;
an indubitably inspired, [331], 40;
and religion, [205], 41;
as an educator, [274], 38;
effect on style of study of, [195], 26;
effect of familiarity with, [439], 34;
free circulation of, Goethe on, [285], 10;
from the heart of nature, [33], 10;
Goethe on, [164], 40;
honestly studied, a difficult book, [177], 10;
how it may do harm, and how good, [344], 52;
how to understand difficult parts of, [446], 27;
its eternally effective power, Goethe on, [331], 17;
morality, [384], 45;
not a panacea, [467], 14;
of a nation, [418], 24; [491], 4;
Sir William Jones on, [418], 21;
teaching of, [418], 22, 25;
the, and man's obligations, [392], 52;
the Hebrew, [434], 22;
the study of and eloquence, [303], 31;
true, just knows her, [215], 38;
truths still latent in, [418], 20;
writing a, [435], 8, 18
Bibles, how made great, [489], 1
Biography, faithfully written, a poem, [473], 8;
of souls, epochs in, [508], 24
Bigot, as regards reason, [148], 53
Bigotry, an unchristian, [495], 32;
effect of, on religion, [30], 18
Bird, an example, [400], 31;
an old, [15], 56;
in hand, [1], 37;
in the wood, [81], 14;
smallest, alighting on tree, [453], 52;
that flutters least, [403], 11
Birds, Burns' pity of, in winter, [181], 34;
by shallow rivers' falls, [34], 15;
early, [75], 32;
how taught to sing, [400], 9; [523], 22;
old, [327], 10, 11
Birth, beginning of death, [20], 35;
high, an accident, [156], 29;
low, comparative advantage of, [487], 52;
meanness of, not to be concealed, [46], 1;
naught without sense, [270], 24;
our, Wordsworth on, [337], 18;
pride of mere, [398], 33
Birth-place, insignificance of, [490], 10
Births, premature, [116], 32
Bishop of gold and wood, [89], 42
Bitter, in the memory, [415], 13
Black, but not the devil, [164], 36;
obliged to wear and buy, [490], 30
Blade, the trenchant, Toledo trusty, [458], 29
Blame, on the wronged, [224], 29;
not on one side only, [181], 30
Blamelessness, mark of imbecility or greatness, [114], 37
Blaming self, motive in, [330], 27
Blast, the loudest, [418], 34
Blaze, a, as a spectacle, [466], 34
Blessed, man, half part of, [143], 52;
the, according to Horace, [310], 25
Blessedness, must be sought and founded within, [298], 4;
not in rank or wealth, [209], 14
Blessings, as they go, [160], 54;
fleeting, [183], 21;
in relation to ills, [31], 17;
not valued till lost, [78], 18;
still rife, [267], 24;
unthought-of, [491], 25
Blind, and blind leaders, Carlyle's advice to, [545], 26;
leading blind, [174], 11;
the, and colour, [1], 41;
the, as leader, [361], 42;
the very, [27], 53
Blindest, the, [474], 50
Blindness, colour, better than total, [44], 31;
our, a blessing, [176], 6
Bliss, an hour of, value of, [382], 5;
search for, in wealth and power, vain, [567], 36;
the same in all, [46], 13
Blockhead, a, cavilling of, [1], 42;
according to Wm. Blake, [153], 19;
and his time, [431], 24;
the bookful, [418], 49
Blood, a peculiar fluid,

[31], 7;
alone, not ennobling, [534], 23;
good, a virtue of, [31], 50;
hard to tame, [419], 8;
justification of shedding, [418], 41;
no foundation set on, [474], 31;
through scoundrels, [287], 39
Bloom, of youth, fading, [320], 25;
season of, only once, [441], 38
Blossom, no, no fruit, [301], 7
Blossoms, not fruits, [30], 60
Blue-stocking, estimate of, [1], 43
Blunder, the most fatal, [473], 28;
worse than a crime, [39], 10
Blundering, a means of learning, [34], 14
Blush, a, beauty of, [172], 3;
a, in the face, [28], 55;
meaning of a, [418], 45
Blushing, beautifying power of, [85], 11
Bluster, a blind for cowardice, [133], 16
Blustering, for the fop, [232], 52
Boasters, of great things, [399], 14
Boasting, before victory, [242], 10
Boats, in a calm, [567], 34
Bodies, large, likely to err, [230], 13;
without working, [126], 5
Bodily labour, alleviating, [235], 23
Body, a handsome, needs no cloak, [48], 8;
built by spirit, [86], 2;
effect of soul on, [110], 32;
feeble, effect of, on mind, [505], 17;
how to warm, [519], 1;
light of, [439], 12;
of man, a temple, [471], 19;
pent, here in the, [155], 11;
politic, evil in, [202], 39;
politic, the, like the human body, [233], 11;
the, and its passions, whence, [478], 40;
the, and raiment, [438], 48;
to be cared for, [409], 33;
with head off, [537], 12;
without spirit, [474], 22
Boldly, ventured, half done, [115], 52
Boldness, commended, [26], 50;
empty, [219], 55
Bond, who breaks his, [550], 38
Bonfires, risk of crowding round, [345], 10
Book, a, a book, [488], 42;
a bad, [208], 2;
a, digressions in, Swift and Sterne on, [68], 11, 12;
a, difficulty in composing, [185], 40;
a good, destruction of, high treason, [19], 16;
a good, value of, [283], 27;
a good, who kills, [552], 4;
a great, great, [7], 9;
a hieroglyphical, [283], 2;
a true, the virtue of, [562], 1;
a wise man's, defined, [540], 27;
an effective, [171], 1;
and head in collision, [541], 40;
as a friend, [505], 29;
every, written for a special public, [90], 17;
good, Milton's definition, [6], 40;
good, to read, [90], 16;
great, great evil, [272], 15;
how to render, lasting, [493], 3;
how serviceable, [301], 14;
how written down, [301], 16;
injurious, author of, [150], 47;
last thing in writing, [438], 9;
lifetime of, [22], 25;
love of a, [147], 49;
main worth of, [189], 30;
man of one, [37], 20; [125], 27;
no, so bad as not to yield some good, [299], 1;
no, useless, [318], 37;
on what condition readable, [313], 3;
projecting, sweeter than making, [167], 30;
right use of, [496], 37;
test of worth in, [301], 14, 15;
that time has criticised, [533], 39;
the rule in writing a, [171], 30;
the true value of a man's, [459], 14;
to learn wisdom from, [464], 18;
true, the writer of, [145], 35;
what makes a good, [489], 2;
what must be behind a, [477], 12;
without stomach for, [565], 17;
worth buying, [171], 2;
worth or unworth of, independent of style, [481], 42;
writer of, a world-preacher, [465], 42
Bookish knowledge in heads of fools, [108], 62
Books, a lover of, happiness of, [305], 14;
a substantialworld, [73], 2;
about books, [472], 1;
advantage of buying, [296], 56;
and brains, as possessions, [520], 23;
and conversation, [332], 3;
and nature, both belong to the seeing eye, [290], 29;
and the heart, [434], 14;
and the world, [477], 33;
as records, [10], 35;
as superseding gossip, [139], 16;
bad, not to be read, [29], 36;
big, how made, [284], 44;
borrowed, [450], 46;
castrating, [36], 43;
clever, [300], 25;
comparative insignificance of, [538], 15;
compared with observation, [323], 37;
consoling power of, [201], 49;
contain soul of the past, [185], 15;
Cowley to his, [44], 47;
critics of, at present, [476], 29;
demoralising, [521], 12;
diverse motives for reading, [398], 44;
eloquence and dumb presagers, [321], 10;
estimates of, at different ages, [8], 53;
evil of too many, [69], 46;
famous, some not worth reading, [398], 30;
good, few and chosen, [129], 6;
great actions, [91], 14;
have their destinies, [137], 54;
help from, [479], 1;
in science and literature, to read, [189], 42;
judged by sensations, [269], 37;
Martial on, [406], 47;
mental food, [224], 21;
mottoes to, worthlessness of, [489], 15;
never referred to, [526], 2;
never to be borrowed, [296], 56;
nine-tenths nonsense, [300], 25;
no end of making, [325], 7;
not permissible, [269], 15;
not so instructive as life, [52], 33;
not to be underrated or overrated, [304], 45;
of most value, [271], 16;
old and famed, why we should read, [487], 49;
old, compared with new, [327], 12;
old, converse with, [553], 11;
only thing of value in, [315], 30;
our, characterised, [377], 19;
parcel of well chosen, suggestiveness of, [446], 44;
point in regard to, [448], 21;
prized above a dukedom, [220], 9;
professorship of, desiderated, [301], 18;
quality required in, [1], 50;
reading of, that benefits, [204], 32;
reason of success of many, [268], 44;
sayings about, [397], 45, 46; 398, [1], 2;
scholars, and printers, [236], 14;
study of, contrasted with conversation, [455], 41;
study of, no guarantee of wisdom, [483], 11;
success of many, accounted for, [456], 13;
that have come down, [335], 18;
that help most, [419], 1;
that warp to be shunned, [166], 20;
the best effect of, [417], 35;
the channel of wisdom, [86], 20;
the titles of, their importance, [297], 34;
their use and uselessness, Goethe on, [440], 35;
to be loved early, [151], 40;
to be read only by advice, [567], 24;
value of, [1], 49;
which we learn from, [528], 4;
without thought, [340], 9;
worth reading, [567], 42
Bored, one must get used to being, [179], 31
Bores, all men, at times, [9], 60;
Voltaire on, [498], 22
Boring, the secret of, [235], 8
Born, fate of everything, [475], 10;
the gently, on both sides, blood of, [542], 25
Borrower, his creditor, [419], 2
Borrowing, caution against, [294], 36, 37;
forbidden, [251], 57;
rule in, [32], 6;
the lesson of, [353], 37
Bosom in one's, a host, [109], 45
Boswells rarer than Johnsons, [213], 9
Boudier's epitaph, [209], 43
Bounty, an autumn, [110], 2;
diffused too widely, [337], 20
Bourbons, the, Talleyrand on, [182], 20
Bow, Apollo's, not always bent, [295], 35;
overstrained, [11], 9;
test of strength of, [205], 29
Bowers of bliss, conveyed to, [311], 48
Boy, a happy, [140], 18;
the generous, [551], 19
Boys, the purity of, to be guarded, [299], 35;
training of, Plato on, [71], 35;
value to, of address and accomplishments, [122], 47
Braggards, greatest cowards, [432], 6
Brain, added, difficulty added, [557], 10;
coinage of, [482], 1;
overwrought, [558], 21;
product of, its quality, [540], 28
Brains, cannot be given, [164], 37;
our, seventy year clocks, [337], 21;
when the, are out, [457], 43; [480], 32
Brave, man, discourse of a, [2], 7;
man, and his word, [90], 19;
man, mark of, [419], 10;
man, may not yield, [113], 2;
man, the portion of, [382], 10;
man, unselfish, [59], 45;
man, yields to brave, [113], 4;
men, favoured by fortune, [113], 20;
men, generated by brave, [112], 48;
spirit, in adversity, [2], 8;
the, prodigality of, [48], 60;
youth, training of, [90], 20
Bravery, calm, [113], 3;
deeds of past, hard to appreciate, [90], 18;
far off, fear at hand, [42], 21;
incompatible with dread of pain, [303], 5;
often, in not attempting, [313], 13;
seen in perils, [38], 42;
the greatest, [410], 45;
true, characterised, [499], 40;
unyielding, [113], 2;
value of, [88], 6
Bravest, tenderest, [419], 11
Bread, a crust of, and liberty, [123], 10;
cast on waters, [36], 44, 45;
how to earn one's, [260], 49, 50;
miraculous, [321], 8;
provision of, [150], 21
Breast, human, without windows, [291], 11
Breath, a, power of, [2], 9;
our first, beginning of death, [428], 7
Breathe, freely, how to, [237], 40
Breathing, as inhaling and exhaling, [185], 16
Breed, in man, importance of, [95], 7
Breeding, effect of, on a man, [419], 13;
fine, merit of, [471], 21;
good, marks of, [403], 12;
good, value of, [409], 31;
high, contrasted with good, [129], 9;
more than birth, [30], 25;
the time of, [457], 45;
wise, nowhere, [557], 46
Brevity, danger of, [32], 33
Brighter from obscurity, [84], 7
Brilliancy, affectation of, [334], 30
Brink near destruction, [496], 30
British nation, the character of, [419], 14
Britons, the, Virgil on, [344], 39
Broken heart, dying of, [160], 51
Brother, friend, provided by nature, [503], 23
Brotherhood, the only possible, [472], 13
Brothers, effect of good, on sisters, [529], 22;
ever brothers, [301], 32;
wrath of, [465], 37
Brow, open, open heart, [79], 32
Browning's faith and hope, [209], 26
Brute, et tu, [88], 47
Brutes, lessons they teach, [523], 35
Bubble reputation, the, [20], 3
Bubbles, fate and tragic end of all, [9], 13
Buckets, dropping, into empty wells, [57], 1
Bud, opening, to heaven conveyed, [84], 26
Buddhist, Nature no, [292], 33
Builder, better than the building, [414], 30
Building, and its foundation, [439], 28;
effect of, on purse, [41], 17;
too low, [497], 34;
up, man's joy, [312], 36
Bullet, every, its billet, [90], 21
Bungling, hateful, [166], 30
Bunyan, in, personifications, [191], 28;
to readers of his Pilgrim, [115], 1
Burden, a, cheerfully borne, [419], 17;
a man's, known only to himself, [306], 15;
a willing, [36], 16;
cast off, another to bear, [175], 35;
known only to bearer, [319], 32;
light, [244], 28; [288], 27;
respect the, [374], 47;
laid on by necessity, [132], 43
Burdens, laid on and lifted off by God, [185], 16
Bureaucracy, tendency of, [2], 29
Burgher, the civilized, mark of, [346], 30
Buried, the, for this world, [117], 42
Burns, ambition of, [122], 24;
Carlyle on, [338], 48; [389], 43; [556], 16;
Carlyle's vindication of, [131], 13;
his charity, [466], 13;
his preference of wit to wealth, [122], 28;
his real hardship, [161], 28;
his respect for truth, [494], 38;
his inspiring idea, [123], 14;
on effect of sin on the heart, [168], 49;
reflections of, on his life, [161], 38;
songs of, [454], 29;
wish of, at the plough, [89], 34
Burns, prayer for humanity, [466], 15;
songs, Carlyle of, [251], 10
Burnt child dreads the fire, [4], 62
Business, and desire, every man hath, [92], 1;
and economy of time, [443], 11;
as a man's puppet, [140], 17;
contrasted with idleness, [436], 25;
defined, [237], 42;
definition of, [260], 2;
diligent in, [385], 16;
effect of, [237], 43;
how to deal with, [73], 15;
minding one's own, [175], 9;
now war, [212], 34;
one thing, generosity another, [169], 12;
other people's, attending to, [8], 17-19, [27], 36;
other's, versus own, [158], 45;
our grand, not seeing but doing, [338], 6;
inattention to, [13], 6;
versus amusement, [173], 18;
we love, [491], 13;
what is everybody's, [536], 8;
with men above it, [105], 23
Bust, animated, hollowness of, [35], 20
Bustle, and quiet, [443], 12
Busy, aversion of, to idle, [177], 50
"But," sneaking, evasive, &c., [302], 37;
the inventor of, [60], 30
"But yet," fie upon, [165], 45
"Buts," the modifying, [9], 2
Butter, bad, salted, [478], 2
Buyer, need of, for eyes, [111], 13;
requirements in, [217], 12;
requires a hundred eyes, [41], 10
Buyers and sellers, [181], 24
Buying and asking, [217], 13;
and selling, Spanish proverb on, [470], 28;
better than borrowing, [29], 18;
not begging, [81], 23;
prudence in, [33], 43;
the rule in, [176], 31;
what one cannot pay, [41], 9
Byron, his real hardship, [161], 28;
the poetry of, [387], 4
Byron's, feelings for those that love and those that hate him, [155], 20;
greatest grief, [110], 39;
last words, [167], 56
C
Cæsar, Augustus, on losing his legions, [511], 35
Cæsar, Julius, imperious, dead, [183], 35;
mighty, so low in death, [321], 22;
on Cassius, [241], 30;
on crossing the Rubicon, [411], 9;
when he crossed the Rubicon, [210], 8;
word of, as living and as dead, [33], 40
Cake, earned by baking it, [141], 36
Cakes and ale, no more, [72], 8
Calamity, great source of, [431], 38;
man under, [510], 30
Calling, a, advantage of, [146], 43
Calm, no sailing in, [303], 34;
nourishment of strength, [279], 14
Calmness, sign of strength, [277], 1; [354], 45;
source of, [456], 6
Calumniators, their own avengers, [480], 1
Calumny, alarm at, [101], 3;
best answer to, [495], 1;
eagerness to spread, [3], 42;
how to escape, [565], 6;
how to extinguish or to justify, [36], 23;
how to overcome, [47], 10;
how to silence, [559], 9;
no escaping, [28], 46; [305], 15;
ready acceptance and spread of, [299], 9;
sure to stick, [22], 42
Calvin, fruitlessness of his teachings, [314], 34;
treatment of, [349], 20
Camp, English, on the eve of battle, [116], 1;
virtues rare in, [368], 4
Canary bird, in a darkened cage, [419], 23
Candour, not necessarily impartiality, [23], 17;
the effect of, [35], 11
Canker, loathsome, in sweetest bud, [252], 16
Cant, defined, and its progeny, [197], 17;
mind to be cleared of, [43], 58
Canticle, the sublimest, [456], 8
Canvassing, exhausting effect of, [223], 38
Capabilities, defined, [99], 26

Capability, no vague general, [90], 23;
unknown till tried, [306], 14
Capacity, limited, [220], 33
Capitalist, in a civilised nation, [420], 3
Capricious man, his faith, [3], 24
Captivity, type of, [109], 24;
as an evil, [245], 29
Carcass, attractive power of, [549], 33
Cards, a pack of, [217], 8
Care, a fig for, [243], 3;
effect of, [51], 37;
foe togladness,
79, 15;
man's first, [266], 31;
not all on one object, [295], 29;
profitlessness of, [306], 46;
soothed by song, [280], 1;
the danger of too much, [479], 11;
vanity of, [16], 57;
want of, [518], 30;
wise, [531], 16
Careless, past preaching to, [179], 16;
people, [405], 45
Carelessness, about others' opinion, a bad sign, [294], 32
Cares, effect of, [114], 46;
nursed, [275], 29;
others', the burden of, [162], 31
Caricature, effect of, on Hogarth, [34], 18
Carlyle, as a thinker, [453], 7;
at Linlathen, [461], 46;
inspiring idea of, [123], 14;
James, to his son, [264], 27;
of his father, [485], 38;
of his mother when dying, [438], 6;
on his life, and world's relation to it, [464], 14
Carlyle's, books, John Burroughs on, [307], 21;
one certainty, [316], 21;
reflection on his life at Craigenputtock, [160], 53;
teaching, John Burroughs on, [461], 28
Carlyles, the, John Burroughs on, [419], 28; [541], 22
Carper, a, [2], 36
Carters, employment for, [489], 12
Cash payment, impotence of, [256], 8
Cassandra and the Trojans, [57], 23
Cassius, Cæsar on, [145], 4
Castles in air, foundations to be put under, [176], 46
Castor and Pollux, [36], 42
Cat, a scalded, [19], 2; [40], 43
Categories, only words, [534], 9
Cathedral, not so majestic as a tree, [324], 25
Cathedrals, of Christendom, the glory of, [276], 24;
the old, and the great blue dome, [445], 28
Catiline's flight, [1], 30
Cato, a, in every man, [469], 25;
has to submit, [419], 32;
the elder, Livy on, [163], 13; [187], 33
Cause, a good, injury to, [171], 3;
a good, needs support, [31], 25;
a noble, desertion of, [200], 3;
that is strong, [413], 2;
the best, needs advocacy, [56], 18;
true, sure of victory, [106], 8
Causes, great, never tried on the merits, [133], 14;
weightiest, most silent, [277], 1
Caution, enforced at every step, [94], 8;
from experience, [37], 18;
mother of safety, [225], 8
Censor, the business of, [234], 2;
the trade of, [198], 11
Censure, and flattery, [347], 22;
and ridicule, cheap, [201], 22;
avoiding, and gaining applause, [202], 20;
effect of, in contrast with glory, [124], 33;
from knowledge, [84], 27;
how and when to administer, [106], 19;
how to treat, [409], 15;
linked to fame, [101], 10;
not to be too hasty, [528], 39;
of a friend, without thanks, [289], 1;
often wrong, [318], 38;
to be received with complacency, [545], 42;
to begin at home, [409], 32;
unqualified, evil of, [313], 49;
who should, [242], 40
Censurers, fear of, [527], 5
Censures, commendations, [181], 19
Centuries, conspirators against soul, [419], 34;
lineal children of one another, [419], 33
Century, present, Schiller on, [78], 45;
thy, as thy life element, [252], 2
Ceremony, absurd and tiresome, [376], 51
Ceres and peace, [343], 56
Certain, quitting, for uncertain, [143], 37;
sacrificed for uncertain, [38], 27;
the only thing, [478], 27
Certainty, beginning with, [185], 42;
by way of doubt, [474], 2;
the only, [377], 1
Chaff-cutter, as creator, [174], 13
Chain, dependent on link, [32], 39
Chains, and slavery, [180], 4;
golden, heavy, [128], 44;
rattling of, as show of freedom, [276], 22
Chamfort's last words, [166], 13
Chamois, caught, though high-climbing, [119], 37
Champion, the, and his love of victory, [419], 37
Champions, great, special gifts of God, [134], 42
Chance, a nickname for providence, [233], 36;
a second, advantage of, [48], 38; [86], 18;
as a god, [103], 22;
as arbiter, [172], 24;
games of, traps, [118], 31;
gatherings of, [385], 22;
no such thing as, [474], 29;
scope for, everywhere, [36], 48;
unseen providence, [10], 7
Chances, common, bearable, [45], 11
Change, a call everywhere for, [457], 29;
a necessity, [527], 13;
cause of uneasiness, [79], 19;
everything subject to, [327], 45;
fear of, [186], 8;
in every, dissatisfaction, [186], 26;
life of world, [464], 9;
love of, [377], 55;
man hates, [34], 6;
necessity for, [479], 18;
not therefore change for better, [5], 10;
seldom for the better, [266], 16;
universal, [328], 17-18; [329], 9
Chaos, is come again, [96], 16;
doomed that harbours a soul, [301], 19
Character, a high, essential of, [48], 61;
a man's, how to raise, [567], 17;
a man's history, [435], 16;
alone, stable, [76], 44;
and talent, how formed respectively, [85], 20;
arbiter of fortune, [157], 9;
contrasted with reputation, [374], 9;
defined, [2], 61; [497], 15;
due to many influences, [307], 9;
due to way of thinking, [226], 10;
formation of, [409], 43; [429], 15;
good, value of, [78], 9;
his, not wholly known to a man, [92], 6;
how formed, [539], 28, 32;
how it reveals itself, [538], 19;
how to understand, [301], 20;
importance of, [161], 5;
individual, power of, [431], 21;
its victories, [460], 36;
mark of a simple, manly, [19], 32;
merit of having a, [490], 1;
national, tempered by environment, [289], 45;
no changing one's, [171], 51;
nobility of, the condition of, [477], 18;
penetrated by soul, [161], 21;
power of, [200], 51; [367], 41;
seizing a, and delineating, [495], 36;
strong, basis of, [385], 40;
strong, tendency of, to eccentricity, [76], 32;
the art of moulding, [301], 1;
the noble and the well-bred, contrasted, [445], 3;
the only, worth describing, [335], 4;
true test of, [537], 18;
unaffected by change of place, [44], 17;
varieties in, accounted for, [529], 11;
weakness of, [530], 16;
what is implied in, [64], 24
Characters, people's, how to learn, [527], 21;
strong, formation of, [404], 2, 3;
the most passionate, and their feelings of duty, [157], 23;
truthful, credulous, [49], 53
Charitable, the, and their charity, [419], 46
Charities, posthumous, characterised, [353], 24
Charity, a dearth of, [472], 22;
after death, Bacon on, [145], 47;
and friendship, [337], 22;
Christian, rare, [368], 10;
concern of all, [186], 49;
contrasted with intellect, [195], 18;
definition of, [481], 37;
effect of, on the press, [63], 40;
essential, [305], 34;
its destination not to be inquired into, [555], 6;
large, and white hands, [230], 14;
misplaced, repining at, [388], 23;
Moltke on, [560], 26;
no excess in, [423], 10;
of God, the restoring, [506], 22;
of great souls, [334], 50;
the first order of, [20], 46;
the power of, [196], 17;
to unrelated people, [166], 17;
towards half-believer, [524], 30;
that thinketh no evil, [420], 1;
virtue of the woman, [121], 50
Charlatan, a poor creature, [407], 36
Charles II. in his chamber, Rochester on, [155], 14
Charm, a native, compared with art, [494], 25
Charmer, were t'other, away, [161], 23
Charms, personal, effect of, [224], 19;
God-given, [126], 2
Charter, of Louis Philippe, [224], 27
Chase, joy of the, [552], 23
Chaste mind, the, mark of, [420], 2
Chastisement, contrary effects of, [40], 38;
God's not feared, [552], 42;
want of, defect in education, [321], 21
Chastity, female, two safeguards to, annulled, [226], 26;
in the tropics, [435], 11;
the nurse of, [412], 2
Chatterers, to be guarded against, [551], 5
Chaucer, characteristic of, [419], 44;
reading, [369], 5;
Spenser on, [52], 51
Cheapest, the, dearest, [535], 50
Cheapness, of its wares, as a basis for a nation, [414], 27;
of man, tragedy of, [420], 4
Cheated, how to be, [419], 35
Cheating, all wakeful against, [92], 28;
and being cheated, pleasure of, [72], 25
Cheek, eloquent, [123], 18
Cheerful, the, the privilege of, [319], 8
Cheerfulness, a duty to promote, [502], 48;
advantage of, [566], 6;
and health, [153], 31, 34;
badge of gentleman, [373], 46;
benefit of, [173], 38;
compared with mirth, [280], 16, 17;
concomitant of, [185], 27;
effect of, [231], 12; [426], 10;
from activity, [415], 6;
in want, [304], 18;
inward, thanksgiving, [196], 29;
no, by painful effort, [301], 21;
peculiar to man, [15], 25;
pleasing to the Muses, [2], 63;
root of, [314], 9;
sign of wisdom, [443], 36;
strength of, [562], 2;
to be promoted, [495], 27;
to be welcomed, [172], 5;
value of, contrasted with sadness, [15], 64
Cherub, sweet little, [470], 32
Chickens, for lion, not chickenweed, [174], 22;
not to be counted before hatching, [4], 20
Child, a cupid visible, [3], 3;
and its mother's blessing, [3], 4;
a, our model, [186], 31;
a spoiled, [82], 34;
a wise, [143], 13;
birth of, an imprisonment, [418], 29;
death of, to father, [489], 22;
destiny of, how determined, [429], 38;
distinctive character of, [424], 2;
education of, [420], 10, 11;
first lesson for, [400], 19; [492], 11;
how to feed, [565], 39;
how to train, [498], 54;
little, man to become, [428], 40;
our best service to a, [492], 29;
play of a, [518], 15;
pleasures of a, [27], 15;
simplicity of, superior to intelligence of intelligent, [506], 11;
stammering of, [420], 12;
thankless, a, [162], 28;
the, and the man, [223], 23;
the first and second lesson of, [243], 15;
the fresh gaze of, significance of, [429], 27;
the, in the cradle, and when grown into a man, [140], 8;
training of, [417], 5;
who needs not chastisement, [541], 36
Childhood, a forecast, [420], 13;
and age, [569], 3;
conversion into, a necessity, [96], 25;
depths in, [186], 27;
fancies of, [415], 48;
heart of, [434], 3;
impressions of our, [436], 26;
light of, [267], 13;
man's second, [267], 6;
the promise of, [172], 6
Childishness, second, [230], 36
Children, and parents, in great states and vile, [187], 19;
as we make them, [238], 12;
education of, compared with begetting of, [483], 8;
duty of man of high birth to his, [182], 1;
false training of, [341], 35;
formation of the character of, [77], 8;
glory of, [430], 12;
healthy, and nature, [291], 3;
how to keep, cheerful, [349], 24;
Jesus on, [466], 4;
late, [230], 37;
less cared for than animals, [273], 42;
little, Christ's love for, [406], 6;
love of, for marvellous, [315], 44;
men thrice, [521], 19;
no, now, [7], 21;
of God and of man, always, [469], 18;
sciences not to be taught to, [527], 34;
sorrow in parting with, [475], 6;
the sports of, [34], 16;
weak-minded, propagating, [416], 6;
when to be praised, [231], 25;
whom they are sure to love, [441], 24;
why lost, [222], 24;
writing down to, [497], 6
Child's church, building sites for, [456], 5
Child's ignorance of death, [19], 30
Chimney, a little, soon heated, [143], 5
Chivalry, age of, gone, [415], 38;
in what contained, [462], 12;
motto of, [444], 15;
of work, need of, [308], 5;
the essence of virtue, [44], 28
Choice, offered to man, [127], 32;
offered us, [465], 12;
the last, [65], 21
Choler, one's, consuming, a virtue, [491], 24
Christ, a foe to, [147], 14;
a miracle, [371], 24;
and Christendom, religions of, [451], 8;
and religion, [372], 33;
appearances of, [493], 22;
body of, [418], 47;
claim of, [147], 51;
condition of following, [386], 21;
condition of presence of, [548], 52;
confessing, what it is, [491], 21;
following, [171], 50;
greater than Zeno, [394], 27;
greatness of, as a conception, [334], 41;
His rule of judgment, [189], 36;
in bread, a harmless doctrine, [473], 7;
in gunpowder, [473], 7;
indispensable to His disciples, [559], 38;
life of, private, [439], 6;
life of, who thinks he can write, [365], 20;
relatives of, [554], 38;
on His Father's house, [188], 20;
on His mission among men, [481], 8;
on His work and working day, [167], 56;
promises of, greatness of, [476], 2;
teaching of, [432], 46;
the finite in, [185], 30;
the infinite in, [185], 30;
the principle unfolded by, [454], 45;
the reproach of, [482], 5;
the story of, Leo X. on, [362], 28;
true cross of, [458], 37
Christ's, disciples, [564], 7, 9, 17;
friends, [564], 6;
yoke, [409], 23
Christendom minus Christianity, [94], 10
Christian, a, here or nowhere, [171], 10;
a test of a, [440], 40; [443], 24;
faith, the fall from, summed up, [427], 10;
fortitude, [429], 16;
God's gentleman, [3], 7;
religion, the, [420], 16-21
Christianity, a, that will have to go, [420], 22;
character of belief in, [468], 27;
characteristic of, [534], 40;
here, [197], 24;
innate, [564], 2;
love of, irrespective of truth, [147], 47;
more commended than practised, [133], 13;
muscular, [156], 50;
on its negative side, [191], 15;
parent of liberty, [245], 19;
precepts of, [241], 7;
secret of, [122], 4;
the discovery in, [461], 34;
versus idolatry, [548], 2;
versus stoicism, [394], 27;
virtue of, [403], 34;
whatever its genesis, here, [496], 18;
witness of, within, [152], 37
Christians, the blood of, [386], 24;
young, growing, and full-grown, [568], 9
Christopher, St., call to, [377], 29
Chronicle, humblest, a reflex of the age, [89], 33
Church, a, test of, [242], 35;

and its enemies, [239], 26;
controversy in, [69], 34;
her function, [65], 10;
in, all equal, [219], 48;
in danger, Carlyle on, [455], 8;
nearer the, [444], 35;
no, better than bigotry, [208], 51;
ark of safety, [97], 60;
spirit of, Boileau on, [354], 4;
the, [420], 23-25;
the, history of, [435], 21;
the office of, [206], 33;
the only true, [470], 41;
the stomach of, [65], 9;
visible, without invisible, [435], 21;
who builds, to God, [550], 40
Churches, name from building, [108], 23
Churchmen and their church, [420], 26
Circuitous often better than direct, [379], 30
Circumstance, believers in, [388], 25
Circumstances, and men, [274], 25;
and the man, [440], 21;
creatures of men, [263], 37;
depressing, that elevate, [466], 33;
effect on us of, [339], 8;
how to treat, [88], 27;
importance of change of, [276], 41;
indifference of, [431], 22;
our duty in reference to, [339], 8;
the influence of, [205], 31,
to be ruled, [266], 36
Cities, and their best citizens, [176], 4;
origin of, [70], 5
Citizen, a good, [19], 20;
an unworthy, [182], 7;
first duty of, [378], 24;
state in relation to, [455], 9;
the, and the man, [233], 2
Citizens, man-made, [26], 60;
of world, how we become, [200], 48
City, a great, [259], 7;
a, of what composed, [31], 51;
and country, [420], 28, 29;
advantage of living in, [177], 37;
building and destroying, [509], 26;
estimates, in presence of nature, [21], 30;
great, to a stranger, [474], 21;
no continuing, here, [155], 7;
our abiding, still ahead, [415], 27;
saved by a poor man who was forgotten, [477], 31;
the first, [127], 50
Civil, power, superior to the military, [37], 29;
quarrels, despatch in, [104], 49;
turmoil, evil of, [185], 31
Civilisation, dependence of, on freedom, [48], 45;
first step to, [495], 10;
near to barbarism, [443], 37;
our, Emerson on, [529], 24;
the founders of, [102], 25;
the problem of, [143], 53;
test of, [457], 12;
ultimate tendency of, [459], 31
Civilised man, the, described, [420], 31
Civilisers, two, [193], 4
Civility, cheap, [314], 10;
the best, [413], 4;
the part of, [557], 20
Claim, who makes, has no, [151], 42
Clamour, loud, insane, [253], 33
Clan, a sacrifice for its chief, [118], 5
Class, to be trembled at, [471], 15
Classes, the dangerous, [436], 14;
the higher, kicked off as burdens, [167], 9;
the upper, [460], 7
Classical, and romantic, [420], 34
Clay, damp, easily wrought, [17], 55
Clean, keep, better than make, [332], 44
Cleanliness next godliness, [161], 3
Cleopatra, nose of, [174], 26
Clergy, and their wranglings, [163], 3;
three sections of, [420], 35;
where Christianity is the established religion, [168], 11
Clergymen and their use of words, [561], 12
Clerks, the greatest, [432], 7
Clever, people, Goethe on, [121], 53;
people, never from stupid, [168], 7
Cleverness, a commendable, [179], 9;
little gain by, [329], 39
Cliff, tall, type of a great man, [20], 34
Climbing, possible, though soaring not, [524], 40
Cloak, take thine old, [209], 22
Cloth, bad, [37], 4;
the foundation of society, [396], 25
Clothes, and the man, [61], 23; [513], 37;
Carlyle's doctrine of, [541], 30;
do not always make the man, [298], 7;
early pride of, [251], 29;
respect paid merely to, [306], 23;
revealing and concealing effect of, [485], 37;
rule of fashion in, [185], 32;
soul in, [469], 11;
superfine, [447], 32;
under, a man, [186], 25;
with or without the man, Carlyle on, [123], 40
Clothing, gay, whom it attracts, [304], 2
Cloud, every, not storm-pregnant, [90], 25;
one, darkening power of, [331], 52;
that veileth love, [90], 26;
the, brightness behind, [2], 3
Cloud-capt towers, [420], 36
Clouds, and the sea, [421], 5;
round the setting sun, [421], 3, 4;
the, regarding, [148], 5;
a set-off to the sun, [174], 45
Clown, sphere of, [81], 3
Coat, a smart, [19], 59
Cobbler, to his last, [242], 44, 58; [293], 17; [386], 36
Cobblers, all, [279], 46
Cock, on its own dunghill, [118], 26;
on its own midden, [3], 15;
trumpet of the morn, [421], 6;
when he crows, [60], 10
Coin, intellectual, in exchange of thought, [190], 46
Colander, fermentation in, [314], 3
College, education at, [71], 24; [74], 2;
learning, Burns on, [74], 2
Cologne, Cathedral, Carlyle on, [513], 26;
three kings of, virtue in names of, [210], 27
Colour, all good, pensive, [9], 32;
as a gift of God, [324], 23;
impression of, [91], 34;
men's joy in, [275], 17
Colt, test of its worth, [377], 10
Colts, young hot, how to treat, [55], 32
Columbus a world-child, [465], 16
Combat, not victory, the joy, [204], 34;
the greatest, [551], 31
Combatant, a brave, [551], 7
Combinations, unequal, [507], 8
Comeliness, true, in the mind, [499], 42
Comet, a sign of disaster, [185], 34
Comfort, those who enjoy, [480], 10
Comforts, many, harmful, [284], 29;
our, anxieties, [337], 23
Comic and tragic side by side, [421], 9
Command, sweet, force in, [471], 30;
the right to, [323], 8;
to, a fine thing, [198], 25;
with conviction, power of, [207], 20
Commander-in-chief, risk in his absence, [504], 36
Commanding, from obeying, [308], 56;
one good at, [363], 20
Commandment, the eighth, comprehensiveness of, [190], 24; [331], 27
Commandments, the ten, in Rome, [189], 38; [569], 30
Commands, imperative upon all, [467], 9;
not to be debated, [84], 22
Commendation, how to administer, [374], 3
Commendations, censures, [181], 19;
to be weighed, [419], 40
Commentators, weakness of, [162], 24
Commerce, an evil effect of, [184], 9;
effect of, [548], 56;
effect of, on nations, [81], 39;
practices in, [188], 11
Common, good, merit of serving, [142], 25;
good, neglect of, a crime, [59], 50;
men, endurance of, [567], 34;
men, lightness of, [252], 45;
men, the dread of, [367], 41;
opinion, as a standard, [197], 6;
seeing miraculous in the, [437], 9;
the, enslaving power of, [520], 18;
the, rarely mistaken, [319], 5;
things, our power in, [189], 23
Commonplace, success of, [26], 52
Commons, House of, Coke on, [389], 47
Common-sense, exceptional, [315], 37;
as judge in high matters, [232], 41;
genius of humanity, [235], 9;
in high rank, rare, [368], 13;
how maintained, [314], 20;
the advantage of, [440], 25
Commonwealth, strongest, based on passion, [180], 32;
the condition of its welfare, [172], 9;
under so many heads, [310], 24
Communications with God and man, [528], 32
Communicative man, to be dreaded, [467], 3
Communism, injustice in, [185], 39
Communities like Arctic explorers, [273], 28
Community, constituents of, [361], 27
Companion, a faithful, [396], 39;
pleasant, value of, [44], 49
Companions, to chose, [217], 37
Companionship, loving, value of, [340], 45;
on a journey, [119], 25;
test of a man, [411], 41;
wise, value of, [148], 44
Company, as marking a man, [7], 46;
decent, condition of introduction into, [490], 26;
descent from high, to low, [266], 4;
effect of too much, [397], 20;
for entertainment, [544], 6;
good, effect of, on virtue, [129], 15;
good, on the road, [129], 16;
good, restlessness for, [551], 4;
the, to keep, [217], 19, 21;
versus solitude, [464], 38;
we should seek, [524], 8
Comparison no proof, [45], 34
Compass, susceptibility of, to error, [18], 53
Compassion, and courage joined, [505], 47;
and ingratitude incompatible, [194], 17
Compelled, he who can be, [44], 20
Compensation, in nature, [90], 46;
law of, [109], 35;
universal, [94], 14
Competency, meaning of, [535], 2
Competition, death, [131], 13;
the only worthy, [445], 42
Complaining, Burns' contempt for, [106], 46;
how to avoid, [215], 27;
misery of always, [490], 4;
our, a reflection on heaven, [345], 5
our, Swift on, [337], 28;
uselessness of, [316], 47
Complains, who, gets little compassion, [151], 43
Complaint, matter of just, [237], 33;
whining, despicable, [166], 36
Complaints, cure, for many, [237], 25;
not, only events, a fit subject, [483], 44;
our, aimlessness of, [339], 7;
to hear, [493], 17
Completeness, attainable by all, [60], 3
Complexion, a sour, how to get rid of, [197], 33
Complies against his will, [145], 44
Compliment, the most elegant, [57], 3
Compliments, mere, no tempting bait, [277], 6
Composition, a great, how produced, [302], 14;
literary, Horace on, [50], 44
Comprehensibility, standard of belief, [398], 25
Comprehensible, common and insipid, [284], 20
Compromise, the supreme rule now, [317], 42
Compulsion, a, that is good for a man, [202], 4;
no reason upon, [173], 41
Computation, a touchstone, [313], 37
Concealment, contrasted with saying nothing, [8], 51;
how to frustrate, [385], 36;
Johnson on, [304], 46;
like a worm in the bud, [389], 10
Conceit, minds with and without, [558], 35;
not to be pitied, [168], 47;
of one's own creation, effect of, [325], 30;
strong, the power of, [404], 4;
wise in his own, [385], 18
Conceited people as judges, [311], 10
Concentration, commended, [71], 41;
the one prudence, [445], 39
Conceptions, our, anthropomorphic, [60], 32
Concern, our sole proper, [535], 33
Conciseness, desirableness of, [87], 1;
in speech commended, [92], 26
Concord, among men, a contrast, [387], 23;
and discord contrasted, [507], 32;
and discord, relative effects of, [46], 7;
effects of, contrasted with discord, [64], 10
Condemnation less curative than compassion, [45], 39
Condescension, insolence, [436], 42
Condition, determined by conduct, [306], 7;
external, sign of internal, [452], 19
Conditions already laid, [63], 36
Condolement, to persevere in, [494], 46
Conduct, a rule for, [404], 24;
as showing the man, [222], 7;
developed in society, [104], 42;
effect of, [473], 2;
in our own power, [43], 27;
Kant's rule of, [3], 45;
not communicable, [97], 34;
personal, power of, [200], 45;
proper rule of, [385], 4;
prudent, its two pivots, [227], 31;
rules for, [394], 50; [395], 6; [323], 14;
rule of, [70], 19-21;
significance of, [354], 1;
sovereign guides in, [241], 44;
steadfastness in, [147], 29;
to be according to circumstances, [549], 28
Conference, the advantage of, [369], 9
Confession, a new, wanted, [426], 22;
an open, [15], 60;
healing power of, [107], 5
Confidant of a man's vices, his master, [421], 23
Confidence, broken, lost, [149], 34;
effect of, [105], 52;
how won, [105], 15;
in all or in none, [510], 39;
lost, all lost, [150], 34;
power of, [281], 9
Confinement, effect of, on fierceness, [88], 13
Conflict, known only to strength, [403], 29
Conforming easier than making conform, [179], 14
Conformity, easier than persuasion, [205], 3;
what we lose by, [524], 6
Confusion, the, to be shunned, [103], 46
Confutation often mere heedless re-assertion, [119], 28
Congregation, a happy, [140], 14
Conquer, those who can, [111], 26; [478], 54
Conquered, man rarely, [365], 1;
race, how to treat, [200], 39;
the, their only safety, [505], 43
Conquering, the art of, [222], 30
Conqueror, every, has his Muse, [182], 18;
how regarded, [233], 7;
the greatest, [143], 50; [304], 19;
the true 514, 25
Conquest, of self, in the moment of victory, [30], 34;
the condition of permanency of, [301], 25;
without danger, [491], 23
Conquests by violence and by moderation, [269], 50
Conscience, a clear, [3], 14; [495], 25;
a clear, happiness of, [140], 11;
a coward, [446], 30;
a good, virtue of, [171], 38;
a guilty, [7], 16;
a sacrifice of, [64], 30;
a sound, invincible, [286], 41;
a Sunday, [470], 31;
a weak, [482], 30;
a, without darkness, [472], 21;
acting contrary to, [432], 29;
and history, [204], 5;
contrasted with passions, [224], 32;
friendship of, advantage of, [550], 12;
good, result of, [137], 33;
guilty, effect of, [137], 29;
in matters of, the rule, [187], 58;
in man as acting or reflecting, [60], 11;
large, none, [109], 5;
limit of its authority, [305], 9;
loss of, [147], 46;
not our law, [373], 6;
of many, [539], 21;
pain of, [446], 39;
peaceful, joy of, [437], 19;
sayings about the, [421], 25-27;
still and quiet, value of, [166], 8;
terror of, versus diseases of the liver, [558], 46;
the basis of society, [396], 36;
the judge, [378], 31;
the lash of, [307], 42;
to be always consulted, [509], 18;
voice of, [461], 6;
without God, [3], 23;
wound of, an open one, [322], 16
Conscientiousness, the ground of, [392], 31
Conscious and unconscious, [460], 19
Consciousness, always of the wrong, [325], 17;
and unconsciousness contrasted, [506], 3
Conservatism, contrasted with reform, [371], 5;
what it has to defend, [419], 30
Conservative, the, consideration for, [313], 48;
the, defined, [423], 2;
the true, duty of, [419], 3
Consider, before acting, [32], 16;
before venturing, [85], 15
Consideration, always room for, [22], 35;
before action, [16], 7;
benefit of, [504], 20;
contrasted with thought, [6], 31;
first, and then despatch, [357], 6;
when necessary, [560], 15
Consistency, no concern of great soul, [558], 20;
not imperative, [71], 38
Consistent man, his faith, [3], 24
Consolation, rule in administering, [238], 10;
the surest, [234], 17
Constancy, man's one want, [533], 8;
not a virtue of the world, [139], 28;
not to be expected, [173], 37;
virtue of, [25], 63;
only in honesty, [472], 18
Constant as the northern star, [33], 13

Constitution, the, how to preserve, [419], 3;
the, not supreme, [469], 42;
less than man, [263], 29
Contemplation, advantage of, [344], 17;
for, formed, [109], 25
Contemporaries, to be borne with, [527], 8
Contempt, evil of, [141], 12; [149], 50;
hard to bear, [268], 47;
harder to bear than wrong, [432], 3;
never forgiven, [564], 4;
rather than castigation, [47], 6;
unwise, contrasted with unwise admiration, [325], 21
Content, a ground of, [27], 4;
bliss of, [539], 17;
dependent upon God, [374], 57;
in whatsoever state, [166], 46
Contented, man, free from anxiety, [62], 7;
man, weak, [202], 50
Contention, from pride, [34], 12;
how engendered, [334], 48;
with certainty of defeat, [201], 14;
religious, effect of, [183], 20;
to be avoided, [240], 52;
with words, [47], 35
Contentment, [20], 27;
a cause of, [521], 22;
better than riches, [82], 63;
commended, [236], 1; [367], 21;
defined, [338], 37;
in retirement, [360], 40;
maxim on, for home use, [372], 41;
not portion of world, [203], 49;
of mind, [442], 15;
our, [337], 29;
power of, [182], 9;
profit of, [69], 2;
source of, [116], 12;
St. Paul on, [141], 45;
state of, [505], 12;
versus ambition, [141], 4;
with little, gain in, [175], 22;
with the present, [229], 14;
with what we can, [243], 24;
wisdom of, [229], 15
Contingency, no, [472], 17
Contradicting, to be avoided, [195], 52
Contradiction, a downright, [4], 45;
a flat, [80], 1;
a teacher, [150], 44;
being able to stand, [140], 28;
good and to be borne, [202], 5;
how to treat, [526], 42;
the meaning of, [47], 36
Contradictions, aggregate of all, [2], 21
Contraries everywhere in nature, [95], 15
Controversy, anger in, [185], 4;
the dust of, [424], 27
Contumaciousness, root of, [380], 49
Convenience, every, has its inconvenience, [329], 1
Conversation, a rule in, [333], 24;
alleviating effect of, [421], 33;
and discourse, effects of, on one's thoughts, [554], 35;
among gentlemen, [363], 10;
boldness in, [185], 43;
brilliancy in, effect on people of, [475], 17;
contrasted with reading, [455], 41;
discretion in, [285], 19;
due more to confidence than wit, [224], 31;
effect of, on mind, [404], 17;
Emerson on, [557], 31;
essentials of, [185], 44;
first requisite in, [428], 34;
our pleasure in, [285], 20;
perfection of, [447], 26;
rare, [268], 46;
relish for, increased with age, [138], 1;
rule in, [11], 55; [511], 46;
the charm of, [443], 39;
the ingredients of, [428], 23;
the worst form of, [17], 56;
versus debate, [56], 17
Conversation's Lexicon, the best, [370], 7
Converse, ability to, condition of, [306], 11
Conversing with what is above us, benefit of, [550], 29
Conversion, known only to God, [20], 58;
that is imperative, [96], 25
Converting greater than conquering, [203], 30
Conviction, one's, from another's lips, [326], 1;
one's, infinitely strengthened by another's, [288], 15;
openness to, rare, [104], 57;
personal, sacredness of, [240], 37;
power of, [312], 32;
rare, [336], 5;
should be strong, [266], 29
Convictions, Goethe's respect for, [169], 14;
kicking against, [289], 29;
one's, from a stranger, [162], 37
Cooking confined to man, [262], 49
Cooks, the father of, [127], 43
Coolness, the value of, [217], 20
Co-operation a law of life, [131], 13
Copy to be followed, [108], 11
Core not finally hidden, [421], 34
Corn, good, in small fields, [83], 17;
who can make two ears of, grow instead of one, [553], 9
Cornelia of her sons, [478], 37
Corpse, fate of, indifferent, [408], 45;
not the whole animal, [421], 36
Correction, failure in, from want of courage, [227], 14
Corregio before a Raphael, [14], 35
Correspondence, the first requisite in, [428], 34
Costume, cut and colour in, [172], 7
Cottage, every equipment for, [90], 29;
smallest, large enough for love, [368], 39
Cotter, humble, Burns on, [161], 1
Council, a, sages indispensable to, [413], 25
Counsel, given rather than taken, [274], 35;
good, how regarded, [93], 25;
good, if not taken, [129], 17;
good, over-night, [137], 36;
good, rejected, [129], 18;
good, to fools, [129], 20;
good, value of, [542], 42;
good, without good fortune, [129], 21;
hasty, [325], 3;
no counsel, [150], 7;
no, no help, [148], 59;
no, till asked, [123], 20;
not at needful moment, [551], 11;
of a friend, [471], 11;
slow-footed, advantage, [394], 13;
the value of, [548], 13;
thrown away, [549], 30;
unselfish, rare, [199], 12
Counsellor, to be without, [493], 11
Counsellors, good, lack not clients, [120], 22;
good, value of, to prince, [161], 26;
the best, [335], 59
Counsels, hasty, effect of, [512], 4;
scattered, not to rest on, [375], 1
Countenance, an index, [518], 12;
more in sorrow, [3], 29
Counting, by nose, [334], 29;
correct, effect of, on friendships, [48], 19
Countries, the richest, now and formerly, [112], 33
Country, a great, mark of a, [133], 15;
a, strength and power of, [445], 26;
duty to our, [227], 1;
effect of, on men, [274], 6;
largest soul of a, [438], 1;
lifelong affection for, importance of, [505], 21;
longing for the, [322], 1;
love of, [56], 33; [559], 24;
love of, and good manners, [439], 48;
love of, comprehensiveness of, [328], 1;
love of, sweet, [73], 55;
merit of serving one's, [364], 44;
one's, defined, [337], 31; [343], 35; [504], 26;
sacrifice for, sweet, [73], 50;
served in various ways, [523], 3;
test of a, condition, [421], 20;
the, privilege of, [449], 28;
the undiscovered, [424], 19; [459], 34;
to be abandoned, [333], 47;
want of interest in one's, [502], 20;
wealth of a, [461], 39, 43;
who enjoy, [405], 52
Courage, a, from fear, [477], 44;
and compassion joined, [505], 47;
and fear, with reference to danger, [103], 32, 41;
compared with justice, [216], 17;
connected with heart, [287], 48;
enough, [169], 46;
from duty, [166], 14;
in a bad affair, [31], 58;
in confronting evil, [86], 4;
mental, rarer than valour, [278], 2;
more than rage, [367], 35;
necessity for, [521], 28;
often from fear, [233], 13;
only in innocence, [472], 18;
physical and moral, [348], 18;
pitch it should rise to, [63], 17;
sacred, what it evidences, [379], 7;
shown in death, [178], 22;
that braves heaven, [167], 3;
that we admire, [421], 40;
to endure, [3], 30;
want of, [518], 31;
with success or defeat, [493], 25
Courages, the best, [417], 34
Course, our, forward, [524], 27
Courses, bad, issue of, [33], 3
Court, does not make happy, [225], 1;
like a marble edifice, [224], 35;
sayings about, [422], 2-5;
selfishness at, [82], 60;
the, La Bruyère on, [363], 15
Courteous man, a, [147], 2
Courtesies, small and great, effect of, [453], 50
Courtesy, dependent on morality, [473], 41;
excess of, suspicious, [548], 50;
import of, [462], 12;
of the heart, [85], 29;
room for, [247], 48;
rule in, [185], 45;
rule of, [432], 2; [526], 28;
want of, [163], 33
Courtier, an assiduous, a slave, [363], 30;
father of the tyrant, [446], 43;
the requisites of, [420], 7
Courtship, a dream, [275], 4
Covet all, lose all, [42], 34
Covetous, man, and his wealth, [173], 21;
riches of, [422], 6
Covetousness, and modesty, as regards wealth, [86], 44;
cause of, [96], 32;
contrasted with charity, [40], 27;
folly of, [131], 30;
inconsistent with godliness, [171], 15;
its object, [300], 35;
penalty of, [13], 48;
slavery, [244], 16
Cow, the, and the piper, [122], 25
Cowardice, pain of, in fear, [103], 41
Coward, brave, under bad fortune, [542], 44;
the rights of, [538], 27
Cowards, boastful, [177], 49;
not visited by God, [127], 54;
sayings about, [487], 30, 31;
should be allowed to desert, [109], 26;
with hearts false as stairs of sand, [161], 41
Cowl makes not monk, [50], 39
Cowper, inspiring idea of, [123], 14
Coxcomb, a, man's own making, [291], 16;
and the flatterer, [422], 8;
once, one always, [109], 1
Cradle, what is learned in, [536], 25
Crack, a, in everything, [469], 30
Craft, a, advantage of having, [366], 20;
a, to be learned when young, [235], 39;
power of, [331], 20
Crafty, man, always in danger, [422], 10;
man and his time, [431], 24
Creating something, the condition of, [177], 32
Creation, a thought of God, [127], 34;
and destruction simultaneous, [190], 11;
not to be understood, [268], 8;
beginning of, [417], 21;
better than learning, [200], 22;
end of, [264], 8;
God's manner of, [128], 16;
harmony of, [332], 22;
motive of, [434], 26;
not easy, [301], 27;
visible and invisible, [461], 4
Creation's blot, creation's blank, [413], 46
Creator, an inference from nature, [291], 2
Creature, how to understand any, [190], 21;
of God, one, [128], 4;
the true, of God, [128], 4
Creatures, all provided for, [142], 11
Credit, easily lost, [283], 24;
given only to belief, [319], 31;
private, worth of, [357], 8
Credulity, its nature, and subjects of it, [225], 3
Creed, a, always sensitive, [383], 1;
a steadfast, foundation of, [34], 50;
not so significant as the man, [529], 37;
of the true saint, [422], 13;
outworn, a pagan suckled in a, [133], 31;
two elements in every, [186], 29
Creeds, effect of science on, [382], 24
Creeping in the way and running out of it, [142], 35
Cricket on the hearth, [102], 8
Crime, an equaliser, [50], 9;
eschewed from disgrace it brings, [8], 20;
every, avenged at the moment, [90], 33;
evil of overlooking a, [196], 26;
fatal prevailing source of, [333], 26;
indulgence to, [332], 1;
its natural punishment, [225], 2;
meditated, committed, [289], 31;
no consecrating, [312], 18;
no hiding of, [45], 8; [472], 24;
sharer in, [50], 52;
that most impute a, [479], 29;
the contagion of, [421], 31;
the disgrace, [39], 3; [69], 17; [233], 16;
when successful, [358], 28;
who hinders not, [146], 56
Crimes, causes of, [173], 39;
consecrated, [405], 28;
great, the foreshadows of, [363], 2;
not cured by cruelty, [50], 34;
others', our estimate of, [161], 13;
when a crown is at stake, [239], 19
Criminal laws to be gentle, [260], 44
Criminality, condition of, [277], 50
Criminals, and the light, [311], 37;
different fates of, of same type, [45], 9
Cringe, effect of ceasing to, [514], 13;
people who, [480], 4
Crisis, a, for both men and nations, [331], 29;
significance of, [94], 58;
the, to be prayed for, [243], 34
Critic, attribute of a good, [25], 2;
but a, [382], 7;
eye of, [426], 33;
true and false, function of, [3], 37;
temper required in, [30], 38;
the, on style, [563], 39;
what makes a, [206], 19
Critical, easier than correct, [203], 11;
nothing if not, [110], 5; [165], 2;
powers, the test of, [456], 28;
study, distracting, [280], 7
Criticising, contrasted with making better, [326], 3;
disadvantage of, [448], 6
Criticism, and appreciation, [201], 27;
brightest gem of, [35], 12;
contrasted with art, [225], 5;
destructive, in matters of faith, [172], 8;
enemy's, value of, [122], 11;
first condition of, [408], 38;
how to dodge, [381], 23;
just, rule for, [109], 9;
of self, [497], 11;
of what is above us, abstaining from, rare, [391], 14;
the cant of, Sterne on, [324], 32;
true, the object of, [294], 45
Critics, how created, [533], 19;
professional, incapacity of, [357], 50;
ready made, [265], 19;
Young on, [158], 23
Cromwell, Boswell's father on, [127], 46
Cromwell's judges, the Scotch on, [16], 20
Crooked cannot be straightened, [414], 38
Cross, a, and bitterness in life, [490], 29;
attractive power of, [420], 20;
bearing, cheerfully, [175], 8;
bearing, longest, [149], 11;
behind the devil, [61], 19;
essential to Christianity, [43], 7;
every, has its crown, [90], 22;
false doctrine of, [281], 30;
fitting close of the life, [422], 17;
of Christ, the power of, [422], 16;
one's own, hardest, [4], 38;
one's, to repel, [495], 19;
risk of rejecting one's, [175], 10;
sanctuary of the humble, [422], 15;
the, irreverence towards, [158], 21;
to every one, [39], 33;
the, religion of, [371], 41;
the, sustaining, [480], 18;
touchstone of faith, [105], 44;
the true of Christ, [458], 37;
the, way of, [513], 41
Crosses, overrated, [488], 43
Crowd, according to Coke, [286], 16;
bustling, passing through, [494], 45;
not company, [3], 38
Crowded hour of glorious life, [332], 6
Crowds without great men, [559], 35
Crown, a noble, one of thorns, [93], 2;
golden, [3], 39;
and headache, [3], 40;
noble, crown of thorns, [111], 23;
not always his who has earned it, [152], 7
Crucified, the, irreverence towards, [198], 21
Cruel only to be kind, [167], 54
Cruelty, of the affectionate, [422], 20;
under garb of mercy, [324], 33;
weakness, [9], 18
Crumbs, bread, [394], 43
Crusaders, war-cry of, [63], 9
Cucumbers, sunbeams out of, [142], 37
Cultivated men, importance of, [396], 6
Cultivation, generally essential to usefulness, [94], 52;
without ability, [290], 13
Culture, a false, defined and denounced, [560], 18;
affair of inner man, [333], 38;
effects of, [98], 11;

for a noble soul, [15], 53;
Goethe on, [207], 40;
high, a proof of, [205], 37;
human, our indifference to, [525], 38;
moral, the root of, [283], 11;
partial and extreme, [342], 3;
rule in regard to, [434], 33;
spontaneous, value of, [471], 27;
universality of, [22], 29;
the business of, [391], 11;
without intelligence, [292], 44
Cunning, art of, [416], 30;
dismasked, [20], 8;
men, Burton of, [518], 21;
on whom it imposes, [227], 30;
outwitted, [89], 24;
self-defeated, [82], 40;
stronger than strength, [250], 26
Cup, inordinate, unblessed, [91], 36
Cupid, a rogue, [13], 58;
methods of killing, [398], 3;
though small, great, [251], 39
Cupidity antagonistic to the Gospel, [549], 22
Cupid's bow, how rendered useless, [336], 45;
weapons, [257], 26
Curiosity, a low vice, [413], 39;
a scourge, [422], 28;
age of, gone, [415], 39;
evil of, [218], 29;
too much, [569], 35
Curse, a, [27], 21;
dinna, [68], 32;
to be shared by all, [477], 9
Cured, willingness to be, [341], 51
Curses, like processions, [232], 39;
small, on great great occasions, [394], 21
Cursing contrasted with swearing, [408], 18
Custom, a breach of, [419], 12;
a, falsely so called, [236], 8;
an evil, [261], 40;
ancient, [513], 39;
changing a, [285], 29;
force of, [46], 60; 47, [1], 2;
honoured in the breach, [3], 61;
man's lord, [266], 25;
more potent than reason, [350], 7;
needs no excuse, [43], 21;
often the only sanction, [162], 2;
power of, [48], 37; [510], 10;
power of, on belief, [523], 26;
the empire of, [132], 51;
the law of society, [396], 14;
the power of, [299], 29
Customs, local, [82], 14;
long, hard to shake off, [252], 32;
meaning in old, [4], 7;
observed more than laws, [461], 23;
of country to be followed, [108], 12;
old, [239], 34
Cyclops, the, at work, [182], 13
Cynic, a, described, [422], 33;
and his body, [315], 23
Cynicism deprecated, [71], 37
D
Daggers, I will speak, [241], 28
Dainties, bred in a book, [393], 2
Daintiness of stomach, [102], 42, 45
Daisy, the, Burns to, [531], 5
Daisy's fate, man's, [89], 37
Dalliance, not too much rein to, [71], 28
Dame, the scraping, wasteful, [311], 29
Dan, from, to Beersheba, all barren, [168], 17
Dancing, a corporeal poesy, [336], 39;
as a sign of happiness, [39], 32;
silent music, [287], 3
Dandies, remark upon, [483], 5
Dandy, in Shakespeare, [114], 43;
not without a heart, [559], 18
Danger, a common, [486], 14;
common, tends to concord, [45], 25;
despised, [43], 36;
foreseen, [3], 64;
how to oppose, [192], 5;
how to treat, [528], 38;
imminency of, [2], 42;
no, with due courage, [301], 45;
nothing free from, [299], 20;
effect of, on us, [529], 15;
on guard against, [36], 13;
the most deadly, [385], 39
Dante, as world-child, [465], 16;
as a figure in literary history, [184], 34;
rank as poet, [503], 48
Daring, a defence, [22], 41;
against daring men, [185], 12;
all that may become a man, [165], 37;
conceals fear, [22], 47;
defect of, [142], 30;
necessary for distinction, [22], 46
Dark, hours, man in, [86], 12;
running in, [148], 15;
the, in soul and their universe, [422], 36
Darkness, as co-factor with heat, [153], 51;
encountered as a bride, [172], 43;
of mind, our one enemy, [445], 35;
prince of, his greatest enemy, [21], 39;
powers of, how they seduce us, [488], 46;
rather than light, [249], 12, 13;
spiritual, how to disperse, [241], 10;
the only, [472], 20;
those insensible to, [480], 5
Dashes and modern humour, [392], 56
Daughter, marrying and bringing up, [202], 21;
too much cared for, [77], 26
Daughters, fragile ware, [70], 24;
love for, [38], 29;
slovenly, when wives, [55], 23
David's harp, [177], 3
Dawn, its solemnity, [474], 19
Day, a, losing or misspending, [482], 44;
a, what may bring forth, [3], 71;
and night, how to spend, [241], 42;
appointed, each man has his, [402], 22;
bright, requires caution, [205], 51;
each, how to live, [528], 35;
each new, how to regard, [327], 53;
end of night, [444], 48;
end of, regarded by God, [312], 39;
every, a Doomsday, [90], 36;
every, a leaf in life's history, [90], 35;
every, a rampart breach, [78], 41;
every, how to spend, [90], 37;
every, sets in night, [36], 17;
every, whole of life, [253], 10;
every, worth of, [243], 38;
fair, sign of, [15], 1;
of days, [422], 40;
offices of the, [191], 8;
parting, described, [342], 6;
poorest passing, the conflux of eternities, [448], 29;
still, but night setting in, [308], 30;
the claims of the, [201], 31;
the darkest, transient, [422], 37;
the most wasted, [32], 20;
the, owning, [144], 52;
the, value of, [298], 20;
Titus on loss of a, [13], 27;
when to praise, [22], 12
Days, calm, how to have, [176], 31;
fine, not as roses, [331], 19;
my, in the yellow leaf, [287], 43;
succeeding, unlike, [238], 40
Dazzles, a thing which, temporary nature of, [519], 20
Dead, as riders, [66], 27;
distinguished by their virtues alone, [227], 34;
happy, [3], 10;
no speaking ill of, [497], 27, 28;
of, nothing unfavourable, [58], 30;
selves, stepping-stones, [275], 33;
state of, [559], 2;
the, all holy, [447], 5;
the, and our concerns, [170], 15;
the, Carlyle's apostrophe to, [323], 2;
the, our need of, [422], 43;
the, our sole duty to, [540], 39;
the, purifying power of, [439], 17;
the, respect due to, [329], 29;
to bury their dead, [242], 46
Dealing, fair, blessed effect of, [312], 34;
plain, [349], 13, 14
Dear to another, dear to self, [172], 31
Dearest, the, [54], 19
Death, a deliverer, [248], 11, 12;
a happy, [140], 15;
a joy, [288], 8;
a matter of time, [414], 26;
a man mightier than, [532], 23;
a necessity, [10], 33;
a new birth, [116], 2;
a radical cure, [246], 46;
a reconciler, [79], 24;
a release, [61], 28;
a sleep, [519], 34;
a swift rider, [43], 31;
a universal interest, [253], 41;
an awakening, [246], 46;
an awakening as from nightmare, [250], 7;
and his brother sleep, [163], 2;
and sleep, [393], 37;
and sun not to be looked at, [235], 15;
and the puny body, [283], 59;
and the thought of, contrasted, [226], 20;
beautiful, [160], 49;
but parting breath, [326], 18;
common to all ages, [328], 5;
often comparatively painless, [270], 1;
effect of, on life, [247], 37;
end of all, [481], 14;
everywhere, [366], 48;
fear of, lamentable, [167], 53;
fear of, [275], 7;
fear of, most strange, [284], 37;
finishing touch, [234], 14;
gate of life, [283], 56;
gloried in by Nature, [291], 5;
gradual, [523], 32;
fearlessness of him who does not fear, [520], 14;
happy, a, [124], 37;
honour in, [159], 31;
how to escape or invite, [77], 38;
how to overcome, [517], 30;
if gods or no gods, [205], 33;
impartiality of, [341], 4;
implied in birth, [289], 41;
in battle, [386], 19;
in nature, birth, [9], 19;
mystery of, [25], 31;
necessary to life, [403], 14;
no discharge from, [473], 24;
no evil, [202], 34;
no remedy against, [47], 31;
no surprise to the wise, [226], 21;
no worse than life, [167], 26;
not feared beforehand, [168], 33;
not subject to fortune, [245], 6;
not the worst of evils, [309], 17;
not to be feared, in battle, [567], 12;
not to be forgotten, [262], 20;
not to be thought of, [334], 1;
of no season, [237], 1;
only in meaner parts, [116], 16;
ordained law of, [206], 22;
our farthest limit, [283], 60;
path of, to be trodden by all, [328], 4;
patiently submitted to, [72], 38;
peace to be made with, [74], 36;
Plato on, [306], 19;
pomp of, [448], 22;
principle of, received at birth, [19], 57;
reconciling, [319], 6;
Regnier on, [210], 38;
repose from all toils, [283], 57;
river of, to be crossed by all, [327], 57;
sayings on, [491], 35-37;
sense of, in apprehension, [453], 10;
sting of, [497], 10;
sting of, felt by survivor, [544], 17;
sudden, [368], 15;
that puts an end to pain, [408], 25;
the fear of, [200], 23;
the fearless of, [364], 7;
the fell sergeant, [481], 35;
the most desirable, [550], 3;
the poor man's dearest friend, [325], 50;
the sole, [110], 7;
the solemnity associated with, effect of, [352], 18;
the true, [512], 34;
the thought of, [19], 14; [173], 33;
triumphed over and led captive of, [269], 24; [250], 19;
way to, open, [311], 50;
who fears, [532], 9; [551], 17;
who fears not, [150], 19; [441], 6;
whoso can look on, [554], 7
Death-bed of a man, two queries over the, [542], 1
Debt, avoidance of, a first duty, [241], 19;
effects of, [5], 21;
evil of, [11], 65;
freedom from, [86], 43;
known when accounts come in, [333], 40;
two ways of paying, [466], 30;
not lessened by care, [38], 6, 7;
to be avoided, [368], 26;
without supper rather than in, [29], 24
Debts, all paid, [145], 50;
and sins, their number, [392], 54;
as legacy, [66], 11;
cleared by borrowing, [315], 18;
great and small, [394], 22;
small and heavy, effect of, [244], 27
Decay, contrasted with growth, [48], 9
Deceit, deceptiveness of, [7], 28;
effect of experience in, [447], 22;
art of, [416], 30
Deceived, twice, a disgrace, [171], 12
Deceiving, a deception, [274], 8;
the deceiver, pleasure of, [38], 43
Decency, connected with virtue and vice, [225], 6;
indispensability of, [105], 51;
want of, [183], 18
Deception, always of self, [266], 22;
and self-deception, [199], 46;
limited, [39], 31;
of appearances, [56], 36;
universal, [28], 52, 53
Decision, haste in, [4], 48
Decoration, the first spiritual want, [428], 37
Deed, committed, [27], 20;
good, in naughty world, [161], 14;
noble, effect on us of, [547], 27;
versus fame of it, [155], 31;
one good, dying tongueless, [332], 23;
only avails, [457], 18
Deeds, causes of, spiritual, [528], 16;
compared with words, [562], 16;
contrasted with words, [166], 4;
evil, cannot be blazoned, [312], 18;
evil, vengeance in heart of, [211], 49;
foul, will rise, [113], 52;
good, value of, [129], 24;
great, immortal, [133], 18, 19;
great, power of, [243], 17;
men children of their, [522], 22;
more urgent than knowledge, [25], 24;
name of, from issue, [159], 42;
not always to be acknowledged in words, [6], 65;
not forgotten, [277], 15; not words, [99], 11;
of man, known to the Gods, [284], 2;
one's, the aim of, [163], 10;
our, sayings about, [337], 34-36;
pain of, lost in the glory, [192], 35;
past, compared with deeds now, [314], 15;
power of, [64], 11;
productive power of, [211], 48;
rather than words, [281], 8;
time for, [457], 42;
to be reciprocated, [1], 9;
unnatural, [508], 13;
when properly achieved, [185], 9
Deep, the howling, and its contents, [519], 9;
the, riches in, [185], 51
Defeat, from self alone, [313], 41;
in a foreign land, [334], 33
Defection, a, to be reprobated, [200], 3
Defects, as parts of character, [38], 28;
great, who have any business with, [334], 49;
moral, attributed to nature, [476], 12;
allowed only to great men, [179], 46;
without number, [414], 38
Defence, an insufficient, [534], 18
Deference, effect of, on manners, [493], 1
Deficiencies, as signs, [184], 40
Defilement, moral source of, [475], 18
Definite, a, to be aimed at, [526], 36
Definition, importance of, [145], 31;
value of power of, [145], 9
Deformed, the, displeasing, [314], 31
Deformity, the only, [188], 22
Degeneracy from man, [94], 33
Degree, a professional, necessary, [79], 36
Deil, the, Burns to, [229], 31
Deity, omniscience of, [78], 26;
the, as raising up and casting down, [511], 15
Dejection, extreme ignorance, [60], 18;
great, after enthusiasm, [133], 20
Delay, danger of, [162], 34; effect of, [104], 48;
effect of, on temper, [101], 30;
hateful, but profitable, [283], 10;
that is good, [129], 40;
waste, [185], 54
Delays, dangerous, [57], 4
Deliberation, evil of too long, [532], 25;
life wasted in, [527], 46;
long, contrasted with hasty action, [229], 34;
necessity of, [57], 43
Delicacy, admired by men, [67], 8;
in thought and speech, [269], 48;
sympathy inlet to, [302], 25
Delight, but a sip, [19], 45;
how to foster, [546], 18;
to, as an aim, [89], 4
Delights, to scorn, [495], 26;
violent, their end, [514], 32;
purchased with pain, [9], 21
Delirium, as a common failing, [432], 34
Deliverance, only road to, [444], 40;
solely from within, [559], 20
Deliverer, the hour of his coming, [546], 7
Deluded, the worst, [465], 29
Delusion, gain in shaking off a, [79], 1;
triumphs of, [458], 31
Delusions often sent as a snare, [327], 38
Demigods, incredible, [165], 11
Democracy, a, the likely fate of, [13], 53;
from Christianity, [43], 2;
its presence, [444], 29;
meaning of, [416], 34;
not our goal, [313], 22;
Ruskin's definition of, [4], 8;

test of, Lycurgus', [125], 8
Democrat, the, defined, [423], 2
Demon world, the, and its influence, [186], 43
Demonic, the, defined, [423], 4
Denial, alternation of periods of, with faith, [187], 49;
danger of, [243], 35;
the practice and regulation of, [491], 31
Denier, the, and his delight, [423], 1
Deniers, how to treat, [483], 20
Departed, the, we love, still with us, [539], 1
Departure, our point of, clear, [539], 19
Dependence, man's, [193], 13;
the evil of, [413], 3;
voluntary, noble, [114], 38
Depth, the, not to be dived into, [555], 15
Deputies, God's, [125], 53
Derision, often poverty of wit, [226], 18
Descent, boasting of, [363], 34
Descriptions, practical worthlessness of, [306], 32
Desert, good or ill, as treated by God, [28], 4;
what one may learn in the, [190], 23
Deserts, publishing one's, [530], 7
Designing often harder than doing, [269], 49
Desirable not always attainable, [297], 51
Desire, a viper in the bosom, [90], 40;
accomplished, [423], 7;
as part of our nature, [338], 39;
darkening power of, [98], 27;
from admiration, [538], 38;
impatient of delay, [88], 12;
inordinate, effect of, [547], 34;
its gratification, its death, [90], 39;
no satisfying, [276], 25;
objects of, everywhere, [414], 35;
out of the shot and danger of, [217], 41;
short of, more than desert, [150], 33;
suppressing, easier than satisfying, [201], 19;
the breath of life, [409], 12;
to be limited, [46], 56; [386], 27;
to be sacrificed to duty, [241], 40;
unsatisfactory fruit of, [473], 34;
unsatisfied, the evil of, [386], 35;
when rational, [527], 20
Desires, how to regulate, [188], 13;
unlawful and impossible, [507], 45
Despair, contrasted with rage, [367], 36;
effect of, on our powers, [233], 18;
finishing blow to misery, [233], 17;
outcome of, [540], 29;
the evil of, [206], 30;
the measure of hope, [423], 6
Despatch, evil of too great, [401], 37;
quick, virtue of, [546], 14
Desperation, rule in, [186], 10
Despicable, the alone, [482], 35
Despising, after reading, [237], 9;
only after examining, [448], 3
Despot, and his despotism, [233], 10;
in times of anarchy, [192], 4;
the only true, [369], 37
Despotism, defined, [540], 30, 36;
defied by despair, [62], 17;
effect of, on a man, [407], 5;
effect on, of unsuccessful revolts against, [22], 10;
fatal to patriotism, [506], 21;
in Russia, [233], 19;
life under a, [184], 11;
modern, [226], 6
Despots, how to judge of, [526], 43;
poor as others, [35], 5;
sway of, [35], 5
Destination of man, [312], 20
Destinies, founding of, [30], 17;
higher, a path to, [402], 17
Destiny, a preacher, [476], 15;
and man, [359], 30;
coerced by the strong, [319], 15;
great, if not known, [86], 14;
in substance always the same, [163], 9;
man's, in his own hands, [92], 38;
not to be arrested by us, [556], 30;
our limit, [82], 61;
over our horizon, [144], 37;
power of, [266], 5;
riddle of, how to resolve, [96], 21;
saddening, [264], 1;
the car of one's, how to manage, 456 22;
the saddest, [493], 10;
urn of, clutching into, [313], 28;
wheel of, not to be checked, [551], 44
Destroyer, of thousands, helpless to embrace two, [154], 45;
the, and his delight, [423], 1
Destroyers, how to treat, [483], 20
Destroying, skill in, [197], 8
Destruction, and creation, simultaneous, [190], 11;
the genius of, [224], 1;
the way to, [555], 36;
things that tend to our, [457], 26;
violent, but new creation, [9], 22
Details, significance of, [547], 40
Detraction, in heaven's sight, [393], 23;
malice of, [30], 36
Development, no pause in, [292], 6
Devil, a good defence against, [99], 5;
a, in man, [469], 31;
a mere protest against, not enough, [536], 20;
a necessity, [396], 13;
as servant of God, [79], 35;
a temptation of, [531], 46;
and his own temptations, [170], 6;
as busy as ever, [174], 16;
Burns on the occupation of, [168], 4;
Burns' pity for, [466], 12;
chained by telling truth, [165], 19;
comes uncalled, [34], 49;
difficulty of laying, [7], 61;
driven by, [144], 36;
familiarity with, and yet in fear of, [30], 33;
give, his due, [123], 27;
Goethe's, character of, [128], 24;
handsome when young, [233], 23;
how to deal with, [29], 28;
how to exclude, [115], 54;
how to keep, out, [475], 23;
hard to scare, [144], 35;
how to understand, [26], 53;
knowledge of, [80], 19;
may look a gentleman, [154], 37;
never sleeps, [280], 47;
not to be let go when caught, [241], 11;
persuasive power of, [484], 5;
playing, properly, [169], 38;
power of, generally unsuspected, [429], 46;
servant of, sure to go to, [108], 13;
shiftiness of, [560], 8;
the subtle power of, [242], 47, 48;
sugar over, [558], 22;
that despairs, [298], 14;
the, abolished, [188], 44;
the, defined, [402], 5;
the, no outwitting, [105], 7;
the, power of, over a man, [137], 43;
the, sayings about, [423], 15-30;
to be resisted, [374], 36;
under march of intellect, [441], 29;
use of a, [174], 15
Devil's, angel, a, [176], 17;
chapel, ever beside God's temple, [307], 15;
meal, [225], 16, 17;
rattles, playing with, [480], 13;
valet, [39], 7
Devils, easier to rouse than lay, [265], 39;
Luther's defiance of, [506], 12
Devotion, elevating power of, [200], 44;
not to be disturbed by work, [401], 37;
to God, test of, [414], 25;
too much, for religion, [398], 39;
affectation in, [489], 9
Dew, heaven in a drop of, [225], 32
Dewdrop and the star, like sisters, [423], 31
Diamond with a flaw, [28], 57
Diamonds, rough, may be mistaken, [378], 16;
rough, no one content with, [308], 21
Die, the, is cast, [210], 8;
the fittest place for man to, [33], 35
Diet, moderate, benefit of, [2], 47
Difference, identity of, [102], 15
Difficulties, a choice of, [477], 3;
greatest, where met, [432], 8;
nearer the goal, [66], 12;
our greatest, [64], 32;
overcome, [543], 21;
overcoming, [494], 43;
that we meet, [443], 20;
there, to be overcome, [203], 36;
to be stormed, [504], 17;
to Christians, [395], 4;
who never sinks under, [153], 11
Difficulty, defined, [536], 2;
from within, [314], 42;
how we overcome, [475], 44;
strength to confront, [99], 63;
what enables us to surmount, [316], 19
Diffidence, modest, attractions of, [466], 28;
safety of, [225], 8
Digestion, good, power of, [409], 10;
good, wait on appetite, [317], 31
Dignity, attribute of nobleman, [80], 22;
difficulty of attaining to, [98], 49;
official, Dickens on, [403], 44;
true, characteristic of, [499], 44
Dilettante, nature of, [460], 30;
the, mistakes of, [423], 38
Diligence, and skill, power of, [105], 21;
indispensability of, [105], 51;
the one virtue, [68], 26;
value of, [539], 31; without luck, [70], 33
Dining-out, the risk to Rousseau of, [34], 2
Dinner, a, warmed-up, [505], 20;
the English institution, [185], 1
Diogenes, quest of, [158], 41; [165], 3;
to Alexander the Great, [402], 13
Dirt, Lord Palmerston's definition of, [68], 43;
splashing of, to be shunned, [548], 36
Dirty water, empty out, but not baby, [567], 5
Disagreeable comes more speedily than desired, [158], 12
Disagreeableness better than insipidity, [29], 12
Disaster, common, consolatory, [45], 24
Disasters, ready belief in, [4], 3
Disbelief, folly of, [176], 9
Discerning when to have done, rare gift, [105], 4
Discernment, and high rank, not synonymous, [233], 34;
not common, [309], 8;
spirit of, rare, [6], 17
Disciple and his master, [423], 39
Discipleship, Christian, condition of, [554], 32
Discipline, effect of, [70], 30;
not to be slackened, [203], 21;
power of, [301], 44; [375], 6;
without nature, [292], 34
Discontent, a cause of, [38], 10;
a world-wide, [532], 36;
at its height, [521], 39;
in the body politic, [19], 10;
man's, [266], 33; misery of, [540], 12;
the root of, [536], 21
Discontented, man, the, [147], 3;
man, who is despised, [208], 16
Discontentment, a cause of, [537], 39, 41;
common cause of, [50], 50
Discord, all, harmony, [10], 2
Discouragement, pride, [316], 28
Discourse, good, effect of, on virtue, [129], 15;
good, qualities of, [129], 25
Discourses, meandering, Whately on, [268], 27
Discoveries, all great, from presentiment, [9], 39;
great, from above, [306], 45
Discovery, chemical, from a jobber, [566], 27;
joy of, [385], 29;
limited, [199], 10
Discretion, better than wit, [15], 65;
commended, [26], 54;
defined, [432], 27;
key to knowledge, [221], 7;
out-sport not, [244], 19;
the sanctuary of, [391], 43;
the value of, [511], 10;
virtue of, [381], 20;
which interferes with duty, [346], 22
Discrimination, virtue of, [145], 32
Discussion, equipment for, [147], 13;
false estimate of, [398], 19
Disease, removed only by skill, [309], 19;
young, growth of, [465], 44;
when cause known, [271], 53
Diseases, coming and going, [239], 2;
desperate, [62], 23;
effect of physic on, [110], 19;
how they enter, [253], 7;
inherited, [106], 10;
mental, like bodily, [207], 32;
modern, [524], 36;
of mind, root of, [10], 40;
representations of, demoralising, [302], 6
Disesteem, not to be regarded, [395], 4
Disgrace, in, with a sovereign, [151], 10;
of others, as a warning, [412], 26;
the only, [170], 17; [319], 19;
to whom a sin, [496], 27
Disguise, unmanly, [202], 10
Disguising what we are, trouble in, [533], 15
Disgust, the mother of, [380], 6
Dishonour worse than death, [11], 60; [12], 18
Disinterestedness, incredible, [161], 9
Dislike, how to overcome, [177], 31
Disobedience, two kinds of, [490], 13
Disorder, public, origin of, [10], 21
Dispatch, and hurry, in business, [32], 61
Dispensable, no need to covet, [415], 16;
the easily, [520], 12
Dispensation from death, no, [295], 9
Display, vanity of, [4], 49
Disposition, in the eye of God, [190], 32
Disputation, effect of, [9], 23;
evil of too much, [300], 18; [341], 23;
origin of all, [59], 25;
without definite ideas, [329], 24
Disputes, about shell, not kernel, [262], 11;
worthy of attention, [423], 46
Disputing, effect of, on truth, [192], 8;
sayings about, [472], 28, 29
Disquiet, source of, [459], 2
Disraeli's mark of great man, [6], 69
Dissatisfaction, cause of, with others, [330], 9
Dissection, not biography, [423], 47
Dissension, civil, a gnawing worm, [43], 37;
easy to sow, [267], 35
Dissimulation, a mask, [392], 30;
a necessity in life, [42], 15;
a royal art, [381], 11;
embarrassing, [225], 9;
hatefulness of, [76], 38;
Schiller and Goethe on, [513], 15, 16;
the power of, [364], 11, 12, 37
Distance, effect of, on view, [488], 7;
kept, a comfort, [171], 22;
lends enchantment, [94], 1
Distinction, reward solely of merit, [153], 17
Distinctions, illusory, [274], 47
Distinguished, being, pleasure of, [21], 55
Distress, common, a uniting power, [45], 12;
effect of, [457], 32;
God in, [125], 21;
lesson of, not to be forgotten, [404], 38;
national, no ground of despair, [472], 35;
public, the one sole cure for, [476], 16
Distrust, excessive, hurtfulness of, [96], 34
Diversity, universality of, [444], 9
Divine, a good, [198], 28;
affinities, proof of, in man, [533], 11;
always agreeable to reason, [298], 19;
grace, the law of, [375], 11;
love, power of, [424], 6;
mind, manifold energies of, [424], 5;
modern ideas of, [175], 40;
protection, not extended to injustice and wrong, [449], 48;
state, par excellence, [424], 7;
the, faith in, its range, [479], 42;
the, narrow view of, [525], 17;
the, not directly visible, [459], 12;
the only thing, on earth, [475], 42;
things, how to handle, [168], 29
Diviner, the best, [268], 3
Divinity, and philosophy, [70], 12;
that doth hedge a king, [478], 33;
that shapes our ends, [477], 45
Division, effect of, [381], 31
Divorce, defined, [233], 24
Doctor, dispensed with, [149], 30;
experience of, [424], 8;
his curing and killing, [174], 17;
man his own, [553], 16;
the, and his fee, [68], 38;
the best, [486], 48
Doctors, a fig for the, [217], 27;
cobblers, [279], 46;
when, disagree, [552], 27
Doctrine, no false, without some truth, [318], 11
Document, as a witness, [40], 34
Doer, a great, always reticent, [302], 13
Doers, great, in history, [431], 15
Dog, a barking, [331], 38;
a good, [31], 23;
a well-bred, [24], 51;
attachment to a well-bred, [58], 20;
bad, [1], 7;
good, and its reward, [1], 46;
I'd rather be a, and bay the moon, [47], 4; [166], 21;
ilka, his day, [181], 33;
living, better than dead lion, [111], 29;
that barks, [35], 3, 4;
the, an example, [409], 38;
the fawning of, [31], 13;
the good nature of, [430], 41;
the, in the manger, [250], 6;
when an old, barks, [27], 38;
will have his day, [241], 1;
with a man at his back, [171], 4;
with bone, [77], 29
Dogmas, not our first need, [204], 14
Dogs, coward, [49], 23;
that bark, [35], 3, 4, [13], 14, 34
Doing, a thing without a good reason, [542], 5;
all one can, effect of, [41], 22;
and saying, [7], 39;
fructification of, main thing, [313], 21;
ill or well, effect of, [252], 58;
joy's soul in, [481], 3;
leaving off, what one can, [560], 24;
measure of, [142], 24;
nothing, a curse, [503], 28;
nothing, a lesson in ill-, [298], 23;
nothing, evil of, [158], 44;
nothing for others, [150], 12;

nothing, hard work, [142], 43;
rather than seeing done, [274], 22;
rather than thinking, [333], 31;
right, importance of, [426], 5;
rule in regard to, [541], 5;
many things, shortest way of, [453], 28;
to precede speaking, [468], 21;
through another what one's self can, [209], 31;
well, profit of, [175], 12;
without understanding, [560], 24
Doings, a man's, significance of, [533], 29, 30
Dome, azure, and that of St. Peter's, different interest in, [424], 12
Done, how to get a thing, [333], 20;
not to be undone, [99], 22; [525], 27;
the, annihilated for us, [541], 26;
the, done, [3], 54;
the little, and what is to do, [439], 22;
things, done, [481], 2;
the, still active, [536], 7;
to have, [493], 6;
what is, is done, [23], 11;
when to have, hard to discern, [105], 4;
worthless so long as dead, [535], 19
"Don't care," a snare, [166], 1
Door, open, a temptation, [15], 61;
the, to be stooped to, [258], 29
Double sense, how to treat what has, [191], 37
Doubt, as guide in conduct, [296], 16;
a living, [479], 27;
alongside of knowledge, [280], 53;
all, yields to will, [241], 46;
and faith contrasted as to their origin, [233], 25;
and knowledge, [482], 38;
beginning with, [185], 42;
effect of knowledge on, [525], 6;
effect of, on faith, [552], 18;
effect of, on good, [505], 11;
enfeebling effect of, [150], 22;
from knowledge, [42], 7, 22; [163], 22;
honest faith in, [477], 8;
in, lean to mercy, [186], 12;
in philosophy and in religion, [35], 24;
modest, beacon of the wise, [281], 35;
no, no inquiry, [174], 46;
no permanence in, [474], 2;
no risk in, with disposition to believe, [296], 4;
parent of certainty, [474], 2;
rule when in, [547], 4, 8;
service of, [530], 42;
the effect of, [201], 13;
the end of, [425], 10;
the evil of, [23], 18;
the value of, [452], 3;
to be once in, [490], 31
Doubtful matter, rule in, [186], 10
Doubting, as necessary as knowing, [167], 46;
condition of knowing, [142], 27
Doubts, Faust on his, [278], 54;
Goethe's impatience with, [169], 14;
our, traitors, [337], 40;
resolved by interest, [111], 43;
to be affirmed or denied, [12], 28
Down, he that is, [147], 5, 6;
down in the world, [3], 5;
in the world, quite, [542], 18
Downhill, a man going, [542], 9
Dowries, evil of excessive, [379], 23
Dowry, a great, [71], 55;
a true, [309], 22
Drama, real object of, [450], 42
Dramas on earth, composed in heaven, [127], 2
Drawing, Ruskin's caution in regard to, [142], 29
Dreadful thing, between acting and first motion of, a, [29], 60
Dream, love's young, [33], 28;
the loveliest, and fear, [469], 16
Dreamer, a sort of madman, [424], 20
Dreaming, not man's end, [266], 18;
of dreaming, [521], 35
Dreams, children of night, [41], 52;
fear underlying, [27], 50;
not to be regarded, [371], 11;
into realities, [92], 30;
and sense, [337], 41
Dregs, always sink to bottom, [424], 21
Dress, deceptive, [23], 13;
expensiveness of, [528], 11;
medicine for women, [446], 10;
rule for, [394], 50;
standard of, [76], 19;
vanity of loving, [460], 25
Drill, not catechism, now needed, [458], 36
Drink, guid, effect of, on speech, [99], 35;
the effects of, [365], 44
Drinking, always, effect of, [479], 19;
five excuses for, [390], 1;
more deadly than thirst, [87], 30;
motives for, [398], 5;
the evil in, [488], 30
Drinks, to be shunned, [389], 44
Drop, power of a falling, [137], 40, 41;
the last, [438], 4
Drugs, to be shunned, [389], 44
Drunkard, and his rights, [424], 23;
and the attendant furies, [499], 31
Drunkenness and gluttony, evil effects of, [124], 39
Dryasdust, affecting to teach, [162], 26
Dualism, universal, [10], 52
Dulness, gentle, and its joke, [124], 24
Dumb, Kant's two things that strike, [504], 9
Dunce, a travelled and untravelled, [162], 3;
as representing a class of men, [273], 40;
female, offensive, [164], 41
Duped, fear of being, [151], 22;
sure way to be, [235], 30
Dupes at first, knaves at last, [329], 20
Dust, a handful, power of, [313], 41;
power of a little, [155], 44
Duties, first, of a man, [428], 14, 15, 25;
holy, the band of, [40], 40;
knowledge of, best part of philosophy, [221], 12;
not self-elected, [262], 3;
the primal, and charities, [449], 21
Duty, a, laid on all, [539], 34;
a man's sphere of, [477], 41;
a path open to all, [110], 12;
a plain, for all, [525], 23;
a spur to, [365], 15;
ahead, [267], 1;
akin to love, [255], 4;
and pleasure, everywhere, [292], 49;
at all hazards, [99], 54;
before even search for truth, [304], 38;
better known than practised, [93], 24;
defined by Wordsworth, [402], 38;
doing, blessedness of, [184], 38;
doing, lesson learned by, [403], 47;
doing one's utmost, [146], 3;
doing what lies nearest, [168], 13;
effect of trying to do, [502], 47;
immediate, of man, [521], 44;
importance of doing one's, [172], 9;
in, prompt, [186], 14;
its reward, [451], 23;
knowing and doing, everything, [215], 40;
life of education, [233], 21;
main thing for, [457], 22;
more potent than love, [254], 4;
most arduous, most sacred, [230], 26;
not speculation, supreme business of man, [140], 23;
our aversion to, [54], 2;
our rule, [47], 3;
our sole concern, [296], 48;
our, the king's, [94], 12;
path of, way to glory, [312], 45;
perplexities regarding, [87], 33;
point of, [519], 33;
present, [186], 1;
reward of following, [146], 11;
rule of, [366], 23;
sense of, central, [453], 12;
sole survivor of faith and love, [326], 4;
stated, the large claim of, [325], 4;
sum of, [240], 49; [486], 11;
that lies nearest, to be done, [72], 10, 11;
the assigned, to be done, [72], 9, 12;
the condition of existence, [312], 40;
the law of life, [251], 56;
the sum of, [496], 20;
the whisper of, and the response, [395], 20;
the whole of, [103], 33;
time for every, [127], 26;
to others, [1], 9;
troublesome, [93], 29;
virtue essential to, [413], 26;
we are now called to, [494], 11;
weight of, when fulfilled, [84], 31;
without God, [110], 11
Dwarf, at work without his machinery, [424], 28;
on giant's shoulders, [4], 75
Dwarfs, on giant's back, [348], 36
Dying, a man's greatest act, [212], 12;
before witnesses, [365], 17;
daily, benefit of, [525], 5;
the, and the world, [7], 23;
twice over, [30], 28;
without being missed, [202], 49
Dynamite, only destructive, [301], 35
E
Eagle, mew'd, a pity, [16], 36;
as oracle, [72], 14
Eagles contrasted with gnats, [124], 44
Ear, popular, estimate of, [448], 32;
quicker, in the dark, [53], 22;
road to heart, [224], 12;
the right, filled with dust, [451], 37
Early rising not equal to grace of God, [200], 11
Earnestness, advantage of, [159], 16;
importance of, [559], 29;
power of, [534], 2;
test of, [162], 27
Ears, deaf to counsel, but not flattery, [322], 12;
lead men, [276], 26;
sensitive, sign of health, [81], 36; [386], 50;
who hath, [146], 47
Earth, a great entail, [126], 3;
but a film, [414], 24;
despising, as a task, [488], 3;
for the virtuous man, [201], 44;
gifts of the, [325], 8;
how made free, or great, [64], 11;
made of glass, [45], 8;
no goal, [248], 1, 2;
population of, [228], 1;
the all-nourishing, [114], 52;
the, sayings about, [421], 31-34;
the axis of, its position, [416], 40;
the, with its injuries, trampled on or loved, [394], 27
Earthly, and heavenly, counterparts, [475], 43;
objects and interests, obscuring power of, [323], 18
Ease of mind, the condition of, [308], 18
East and West, thought of, contrasted, [174], 18
Eating, effect of excess in, [366], 25;
that requires sauce, [209], 20
Eccentricity, how to gain a character for, [177], 22;
in beauty, [89], 22;
in eyes of world, [464], 7;
in men of ability, [276], 14
Echo, power of, [431], 6
Echoes, mostly hollow, [548], 55;
our, [337], 42
Economist, the best, [145], 13
Economists, few good, [513], 25;
greatest, [432], 27
Economy, as a revenue, [310], 3;
first principle of, [206], 12;
human, the first principle of, [428], 31;
importance of, [559], 30;
in prosperity, [409], 14;
object of all, true, [445], 15;
too late, [387], 12
Ecstasy, power of, [460], 29
Eden, innocence of, lost, [524], 38
Edicts, less potent than king, [45], 47
Edifices, great, work of ages, [133], 21;
public, how to build, [546], 31
Education, a mistake in, [201], 37;
aim of, [415], 45; [435], 40;
an inversion of, [492], 38;
as facilitating government, [79], 38;
chief nobility of, [428], 6;
effect of an effeminate, [282], 15;
entire object of, [425], 19;
first condition of, [428], 9;
first step in, [158], 10;
for heaven, St. Jerome on, [243], 36;
importance of, [427], 20; [451], 5; [509], 20; [539], 22;
in defeat, [56], 60;
inner soul of, [233], 21;
meaning of, [566], 1;
modern, evil effects of, [281], 27, 28;
moral, nature and sum of, [283], 12;
more than knowledge, [220], 43;
most important part of, [443], 50;
motive of, [567], 4;
no, better than bad, [29], 54;
of individual, aim of the world, [464], 10;
of most miseducation, [34], 4;
of woman, the end of, [425], 9;
only, that deserves the name, [458], 16;
our ambiguous, evil of, [205], 48;
our, dissipating, [337], 11;
Plato on, [71], 35;
power of, [488], 8;
question of its importance, [450], 28;
real object of, [450], 41;
right law of, [451], 39;
secret of, [452], 40;
the best, [472], 30;
the business of, [291], 9;
the compulsory, needed, [458], 36;
the end of, [492], 8;
the first use of, [428], 42;
the, of the world, [375], 6;
the only real, [51], 18;
the, wanted, [476], 16;
whole of, [72], 48;
wise, [291], 3;
without capacity, [35], 35;
without God's grace, [371], 34;
without spirit, [169], 44;
wrong, times of, [469], 4
Educational laws to be strict, [260], 44
Educators, our, [275], 5
Effect involved in cause, [37], 12
Effort, every healthy, character of, [91], 21;
free, blessedness in, [89], 47; [95], 35;
great principle of, [431], 32;
unrestrained, evil of, [553], 6
Efforts, condition of success of, [10], 14;
limit to, [527], 35;
worthless, impress of, [555], 34
Eggs, the two, eaten at breakfast, [291], 48
Ego, merging one's, [210], 43;
the central, [462], 17
Egoism, importance of getting rid of, [152], 1
Egoist, life of an, [439], 2
Egotism, hateful, [234], 16;
how to bring down our, [475], 29
Egotists, a social pest, [447], 33
Elect, the, and the non-elect, [424], 42
Election, unconditional, [398], 16
Elections, advice regarding, [2], 23
Elevates, what, an advantage, [541], 6
Elevation, our, what contributes to, [540], 34
Elevations, temperature of, [434], 35
Elizabeth, Queen, Essex on, [135], 32
Elizabeth's, Queen, last words, [10], 6
Eloquence, and study of Bible, [303], 31;
at county conventions, [394], 29;
compared with discretion, [69], 10;
compared with insight, [162], 10;
continued, a bore, [49], 29;
dependent on heart, [433], 45;
described, [368], 1;
high-tide of, in Rome, [322], 37;
no feigning, [347], 32;
the source of, [344], 22;
triumphs of, [186], 19;
true, characterised, [499], 46, 47
Eloquent man, the, Cicero on, [143], 19
Elsewhere as here, [87], 34
Emancipation, no art, [218], 20;
not masterlessness, [155], 30;
without self-government, [94], 50
Eminence, effects of, on character, [16], 49;
the price of, [38], 4
Emotion, moments full of, [467], 19;
presupposed in reason and justice, [408], 38;
propagation of, from writer to reader, [297], 17;
the outlet of, [3], 49
Emotions, contrasted with thoughts, [457], 39;
pleasing, not to be recalled, [485], 19
Emperor to die at his post, [56], 32
Empire, course of, [533], 18;
extended, cost of, [97], 56;
extension of, [387], 22
Empires, the fall of, [89], 9
Employment, a necessity, [15], 35;
dependence of mental, on bodily, [106], 18;
parent of cheerfulness, [40], 49
Empty boxes, [1], 18
Emulation, effect of, [5], 8;
envy, [288], 47;
hath a thousand sons, [109], 29
Encouragement, better than correction, [48], 20;
the power of, [195], 12;
the voice of, amid contradiction, blessed, [30], 54
End, important, two ways to attain, [469], 3;
man's destined, and way, [372], 27;
pre-existent in the means, [37], 12;
sanctifies means, [50], 46;
the, crowns all, [425], 7;
the, crowns us, [46], 31;
to be always considered, [83], 47;
to be always kept in view, [541], 32;
to be known before way, [425], 14;
to be thought of from the beginning, [186], 24
Endeavour, honest, to be encouraged, [211], 51;
and pleasure, effects of, [349], 42
Endeavours, too high, vanity of, [142], 23
Ending, better than beginning, well, [130], 22
Endowments, first signs of, [133], 22;
personal, idolatry of, [276], 21
Ends, to be aimed at, [27], 25;
true, discernment of, [553], 25
Endurance, a source of strength, [125], 43;
commended, [539], 34;
from habit, [138], 10;
grandeur of, [312], 37;
patient, commended, [241], 20;
prolonged, effect of, [357], 59;
the first lesson to learn, [400], 19;
the power of, [364], 24, 38;
value of, [88], 6
Endure sooner than die, [235], 25
Enemies, belief that our, are also God's,

[305], 18;
gaining, greater than vanquishing, [136], 44;
how to disarm, [244], 8;
how to regard one's, [467], 17;
how to treat, [400], 41;
if known, to be pitied, [175], 38;
make no, [260], 29;
men, by imitation, [566], 11;
none without, [304], 25;
secret, contrasted with open, [408], 52;
smallest, to be most dreaded, [83], 52;
who can love his, [552], 38
Enemy, a fleeing, a bridge of gold for, [14], 55;
appreciating the worth of, [298], 5;
deceiving, permissible, [199], 29;
man his own worst, [93], 19;
no action against, on private information, [334], 2;
no alliance with an, [304], 39;
no defiance of untried, [304], 41;
no, insignificant, [180], 21;
not to be despised, [62], 27;
not to be injuriously treated, [193], 55;
one, too many, [150], 28; 332, [11], 12;
opinion of, not to be despised, [296], 15;
our one, [445], 35;
the, to be met on the field, [407], 7;
to be fought outside the gate, [425], 15;
to have no, wretched, [280], 29;
way of flying, to be smoothed, [8], 2;
weakness of, our strength, [225], 13;
what it is to be an, [333], 12
Energies, how cramped, [337], 43
Energy, as possession, [142], 2;
basis of health, [153], 35;
dependence of, on misfortune, [136], 33;
first and only virtue, [272], 33;
in social service, not lost, [545], 3;
of which no heed is taken, [20], 21;
power of, [482], 17;
proper organ of the highest, [80], 41;
without knowledge, [12], 54
England, and France, the best thing between, [418], 4;
as one's country, [26], 55;
chief need of, [536], 1;
false trade of, [492], 25;
history of, a misnomer, [538], 17;
middle-aged women in, [186], 14;
our standpoint, [539], 4;
people of, enthusiastic, [447], 21;
people wanted in, [527], 14;
secure, if true to herself, [44], 50
England's safety, [243], 23
English, amusing themselves, [238], 1;
and Americans, [427], 44;
and French contrasted, [222], 21;
at their amusements, [182], 21;
Emerson on, [335], 8;
Mme. de Staël on, [359], 5;
nation, a trick of, [208], 26;
style, how to attain, [553], 31;
the, bravery and honour of, [425], 16;
the, Goldsmith on, [409], 39;
the, Napoleon of, [507], 1;
the, their two grand tasks, [503], 37;
the, Voltaire on, [362], 34;
when free, [234], 25;
well of, undefiled, [52], 51
Englishman, a true-born, [549], 8;
pluck of, [537], 43
Englishmen, for friends, [169], 20;
freedom a necessity for, [526], 29
Enigmas, wise men's partiality for, [199], 20
Enjoying and hoarding, [539], 45
Enjoyment, and Christianity, [420], 19;
and endurance, rules for, [120], 7;
and usefulness 360, 6;
highest, dependent on education, [77], 5;
how secured, [81], 43;
in want, [182], 32;
no help in, [519], 25;
our best, [523], 40;
rule for, [82], 57;
unrestrained, evil of, [553], 6
Enlistment for labour commended, [273], 39
Enmities, for time, [284], 1
Enmity, death, [488], 6;
man's, [193], 15;
not to be provoked, [383], 20
Ennui, a good condiment, [229], 36;
born of uniformity, [222], 41;
mark of manhood, [28], 45;
the brother of repose, [234], 42;
the effect of, [407], 34;
those who suffer from, [460], 7
Enough, and too much, [20], 22; [524], 10;
better than too much, [11], 10;
evil in more than, [92], 47;
excels a sackful, [121], 41;
misfortunes not withstanding, [190], 1;
more than, an anxiety, [146], 31;
never a small quantity, [38], 14;
where there is 20, 32;
who has, [553], 7
Enslavement, how to escape, [177], 46
Enterprise, in the young, [331], 12;
man of, aim of, [24], 26
Enterprises, great, wrecked by trifles, [78], 21;
how to carry on, [36], 28;
indiscreetly urged, [328], 13
Entertainment, ability to give or receive, [306], 11
Enthusiasm, as test of a man, [490], 6;
higher, of man not extinct, [434], 32;
how generated, [21], 47;
our love in our, [338], 31;
political effects of, [450], 5;
the enemy of, [376], 38;
vulgar, [299], 25
Enthusiast, better than timid thinker, [421], 21;
effect of opposition on, [335], 52;
the wild, zeal of, [307], 44
Envied, the, [425], 22;
the, rather to be pitied, [383], 36;
the, when dead, [97], 58
Envious man, the, [425], 23
Environment, enslaving power of, [522], 24;
importance of, [75], 1;
the tyranny of, [11], 57
Envy, a kind of praise, [108], 57;
a step from, to love, [141], 19;
a gnawing moth, [215], 31;
Burns on, [340], 17;
characteristic of, [34], 32;
distinct from emulation, [81], 50;
honour's foe, [160], 42;
human, [294], 35;
ignorance, [470], 37;
its malevolence, [25], 57;
passive disgust, [141], 19;
rather than pity, [181], 6; [246], 13;
sayings about, [196], 16-22;
singularity of, [311], 33;
the aims of, [406], 32;
the envious contrasted with, [238], 13;
the last stage of perversion, [438], 8;
the life-time of, [342], 22;
to be lived down, [389], 34;
tooth of, against the solid, [114], 6;
when harmless, [59], 5
Epic, future, of world, on whom it depends, [429], 39;
our, now and henceforth, [449], 40;
true, of our times, [458], 39
Epicurean maxim, [158], 18
Epicurism of reason, [378], 41
Epigram, should be like a bee, [327], 46;
the power of, [14], 57
Epoch, a glorious, which few reach, [284], 20;
an, most significant feature of, [444], 6;
great determining element in, [186], 34;
great, mark of, [211], 46;
our, dominant drift of, [491], 32;
the present, [331], 9
Equality, as bond of love, [124], 9;
among men, a figment, [274], 1;
condition of, [554], 9;
establishment of, by law, [226], 8;
holy law of humanity, [124], 10;
not true, [394], 52;
the condition of, [147], 23;
unknown to nature, [292], 5
Equanimity, happiness of, [140], 20
Equity, sundered from law, [231], 28;
to be respected, [188], 38
Equivocation and evasion, [89], 13
Era, a new, advent of, unannounced, [337], 26;
the present, [521], 9
Eras worthy of study, [264], 1
Err, to, human, [163], 42
Erring, Cicero on kindness to, [159], 22
Error, a mistake of judgment, [220], 17;
a way back from, [23], 47;
an old and new, [315], 20;
an old, mischief of, [489], 23;
and ignorance, [178], 14;
confessing, no disgrace, [58], 36; [304], 40;
consolation from, [421], 30;
containing some truth, dangerous, [14], 59;
contrary forms of, [182], 10;
dependence of glory on, [390], 25;
easier to recognise than truth, [203], 13;
freeing from, [492], 33;
from selfishness, [275], 6;
happiness of hoping to escape from, [320], 29;
human, misery of, Tennyson on, [321], 39;
in youth and in age, [60], 21;
insignificance of throttling one, [217], 14; [550], 19;
matter of endless talk, [324], 46;
natural to us, [501], 28;
not always harmful, [381], 51;
not every, folly, [310], 20;
of opinion, [85], 6;
old, evil effect of, [79], 3;
our great, [431], 17;
our love for, [420], 14;
our portion, [319], 13;
perennial, [197], 1;
perseverance in, folly, [51], 1;
prior to truth, [184], 37;
protestation against, its importance, [12], 40;
so long as one strives, [85], 40;
strengthening power of an, [268], 2;
the fate of, [501], 27;
the only, [319], 12;
to persevere in, folly, [159], 2;
treatment of, as sign of wise or fool, [54], 30;
utility of, [531], 44;
where freedom, [560], 13;
with a master, [280], 51
Errors, deliverance from, hard, [265], 16;
effect of diversion on, [468], 32;
ever renewed, [75], 11;
not to be built, [175], 33;
of a great mind, [425], 25;
of a wise man, [425], 26, 27;
our, dear to us, [114], 39
Errs, who, in tens, errs in thousands, [41], 19;
who never, [417], 46
Eruptions, superficial, when the heart is threatened, [304], 35
Establish one's self, how to, [354], 3
Establishments, old, when to abolish, [546], 1
Estate, one's, while in debt, [481], 11;
the third, [360], 38
Estates, how often spent, [268], 57
Esteem, and love, never sold, [214], 14;
commended, [243], 47;
often from ignorance, [181], 13;
our desert of, [522], 9;
without love, [19], 52
Eternal, in man's soul, [262], 28;
no hastening births of, [236], 59;
presence of, in time, [449], 7;
the, no simulacrum, [426], 6
Eternities, masquerade of the, [457], 47
Eternity, and time, [486], 47; 487, [2], 10;
depending on time, [126], 10;
effect of hope of, [302], 41;
feeling in man of, [186], 38;
in time, [495], 28;
looking through time, [55], 44;
manifest in time, [265], 2;
the spot in, ours, [426], 8;
unsurveyable, [297], 20;
vision of, indispensable, [150], 41;
youth, [466], 3
Ethics, right, the nature of, [377], 13
Ethiopian, the, and his skin, [35], 25
Eulogy, the assumption in, [12], 39
Euphemy contrasted with blasphemy, [30], 41
Europe, bewildered, the goal of, [313], 22;
fifty years of, [29], 22;
the glory of, gone, [415], 38
Evangel, our ultimate political, [440], 37
Evangelicals, Carlyle on, [443], 42
Evening, and its day, [520], 9;
as an emblem, [89], 26;
hushed to grace harmony, [162], 36
Event, great, for world, [431], 18;
out of our power, [34], 20;
to be mastered at the time, [90], 44
Events, all, of importance, [94], 46;
all part of a divine plan, [94], 45;
coming, foreshadowed, [44], 56;
fitfulness of, [252], 11;
gravest, noiselessness of, [431], 8;
greatest, of an age, [432], 9;
in life, their connection not understood at first, [569], 23;
mighty, turn on a straw, [279], 15;
no being beyond power of, [565], 16;
our relation to, [522], 4;
source of, [472], 32;
tutors, [434], 14
Everything, importance of attempting, [439], 10
Everywhere, nowhere, [222], 8
Evidence, one's own, not enough, [303], 37;
to be weighed, [352], 21
Evidences like weights, [437], 21
Evil, a source of good, [401], 35;
absolute, unknown to us, [317], 11;
all, as a nightmare, [9], 25;
all, at bottom good, [10], 7;
all, within, [475], 16;
anticipation of, [222], 32;
as well as good from God, [388], 22;
at its strongest, [26], 61;
better in youth, [200], 31;
beginning of every, [188], 30;
by thinking of it, [6], 4;
deed, curse of, [482], 2;
defined, [95], 35;
doing, for good, [150], 3;
effect of concealment on, [8], 50;
from God, [197], 27;
from thoughtlessness, [33], 6;
greatest, for a man, [35], 44;
he that doeth, [93], 33;
how to avoid, [461], 25;
how to overcome, [33], 47; [240], 16;
how to scare away, [24], 47;
inability to bear, [519], 36;
knowing and speaking, [493], 30;
latent in heart, [471], 25;
most common source of, [444], 5;
none all, [311], 8;
necessary for good, [401], 46;
no absolute, [472], 34;
no, felt till it comes, [301], 42;
no, without compensation, [301], 43;
not constant, [86], 13;
not doing, and not intending, [491], 43;
not struck at the root, [468], 23;
not to be traced, but extinguished, [547], 22;
how to overcome, [113], 6;
of the day, enough, [406], 16;
one, St. Paul of, [521], 45;
only hiding of, [473], 11;
overcoming, two ways of, [494], 44;
patiently borne, [301], 41;
reaction of, on self, [80], 33;
report, how to treat, [172], 13;
resisted, a benefit, [90], 45;
sense of filthiness of, a foil, [152], 15;
speaking, defence against, [171], 38; [172], 1;
that goeth out of one, [426], 12;
that men do, [426], 13;
the beginning of, [69], 29;
the root of, [170], 40;
theories of, helpless against evil, [62], 41;
thing, judgment of, often delayed, [214], 17;
things, goodness in, [476], 33;
to be overcome, [28], 14;
to be simply borne, [541], 31;
to come, better unknown, [38], 30;
wishing no, merit of, [298], 15
Evils, easily crushed at the birth, [327], 48;
extreme, alike, [9], 26;
great and little, effect on one of, [133], 24;
great and small, how to oppose, [492], 49;
great, impotence to overcome, [175], 15, 44;
guards against, [409], 16;
how to shield one's self from, [300], 21;
imaginary, [96], 23;
imaginary, how made real, [182], 36;
imaginary versus real, [243], 41;
man's fear of, [206], 45;
neglect of small, [111], 38;
not imaginary, [10], 13;
origin of, [261], 4;
our, source of all, [201], 50;
real and possible, compared, [325], 11;
shunned, fallen into, [104], 40;
silently bearing, [523], 24;
which of two, to choose, [547], 2;
which we feel, [330], 28
Evil-disposed, the, [482], 49
Evil-doer and the light, [146], 5
Evil-doers, fear of, [532], 2
Evil-speaker compared with evil-doer, [261], 17
Evil-speaking, evil of, [553], 15
Evil-wishing, evil of, [553], 15
Evolution, only worthy of regard, [445], 44
Exaggeration, common, [473], 37;
weakening effect of, [329], 14
Exalted, station, ornament to merit, [222], 36;
who shall be, [146], 57
Example, and precept, [252], 43;
force of, [171], 36;
noble, force of, [78], 44;
potency of, [96], 49;
the effect of, [276], 43;
the power of, [375], 6;
value of, [158], 43
Examples, good, power of, [129], 27, 28;
perfect, evil effect of, [89], 28
Excel, daring to, [301], 29
Excellence, source of, [92], 23;
the appreciation of, value of, [297], 37;
to be studied, [338], 35;
uniformity of, tiresome, [507], 94;
what we must risk to attain, [489], 32;