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

world's treatment of, [464], 31
Excellences, deep hidden, [40], 33
Excellency, witness of, [207], 7
Excellent, persons, tortures of, [383], 31;
the, difficult, [39], 37;
the, how to treat, [536], 9;
the, rare and rarely valued, [426], 18;
the, unfathomable, [55], 2;
things rare, [328], 23
Exception, and rule, [96], 26;
going by the, [199], 39
Exceptions, according to order, [291], 6
Excess, a tendency of Nature, [94], 41;
every, a vice in end, [327], 49;
no, [170], 14; [271], 51;
nothing in, [242], 29;
of good, dangerous, [153], 38;
the evil of, [350], 10;
unstable, [94], 43
Exchange, as a means of life, [275], 3
Excitement contrasted with enthusiasm, [83], 38
Excitements, great, effect of, [426], 10
Exercise, benefit of, [90], 48;
bodily, St, Paul's estimate of, [31], 10;
defined by Johnson, [228], 34;
rules for, [6], 14
Exigencies, the science of, [97], 24
Exile, everywhere, [566], 4;
friendly face to, [496], 6;
no exile from self, [535], 6
Existence, a distracted, waste of, [569], 25;
a mystery to the greatest genius, [306], 41;
all earthly, a vapour, [368], 36;
contrasted with life, [487], 16;
disappointed, worse than none, [208], 39;
first delight of, [494], 43;
laws of, our knowledge of, [207], 22;
man's, secret of, [452], 47;
our, passed into words, [339], 38;
our, purpose of, [521], 26;
perfection of, [345], 47;
principle and end of, [521], 2;
source and destiny of all, [554], 31;
the healthy tenure of, [199], 4;
the only explanation of, [437], 14
Existent, the, its importance, [457], 21
Expectation, a retarding weight, [559], 10;
and uncertainty, as joys, [506], 1;
as regulated by desire, [173], 6;
effect of, on a blessing, [488], 10;
of good, effect on us of, [559], 5
Expectations, and non-preparedness, [523], 44;
extravagant, vain, [176], 1
Expecting nothing, blessedness of, [30], 51
Expense, our, the root of, [337], 45
Expenses, petty, effect of, on purse, [205], 32
Expensiveness, our, [340], 4
Experience, a light to truth, [467], 15;
a teacher, [78], 34;
and ability, possible effect of, [383], 37;
as a teacher, [220], 21;
as an educator, [323], 37;
as inducing fear, [97], 46;
authority of, [84], 30;
bitter, [34], 19;
bitter, advantage of, [532], 28;
by indulgence in passion, [144], 20;
contrasted with theory, [466], 20;
incommunicable, [63], 26;
its limited extent, [496], 17;
knowledge of, [114], 34;
like stern-lights of ship, [494], 35;
man's only school, [264], 34;
no antedating, [302], 55;
not equal to understanding, [269], 22;
one's own, and others', [75], 15;
others, no demand for, [308], 26;
our, of life, [337], 46;
painful, as a teacher, [81], 48;
perfect, [345], 48;
second-hand, [563], 22;
the fruit of life, [429], 31;
thrift in, [34], 5;
value of, [334], 22;
without thought, [529], 3
Experiences, common, instructive, [72], 45;
our chief, [337], 34
Experiments, subject of, [103], 26
Exposition of one another order of the day, [472], 1
Expression, clear, of difficult matters, [492], 19;
correct, the source of, [43], 56;
dependence of, on distinct thought, [284], 23;
how to attain facility of, [488], 40;
modest, virtue of, [281], 36;
purpose of nature, [462], 8;
test of thought, [253], 26;
varieties of, accounted for, [529], 11
Expressiveness, all, [478], 5
Exquisite, the, coy, [94], 47
External things, emancipation from power of, [559], 26
Extracts, necessity for, [444], 18
Extraordinary, the, how to treat, [536], 10;
only the, rebelled against, [265], 30;
to be looked at, [198], 3
Extremes, violent, temporary, [307], 38
Extremity, trier of spirits, [567], 34
Eye, a commanding, [15], 5;
a daring, [551], 28;
a steady good, [79], 9;
as an interpreter, [538], 4;
as an organ of speech, [534], 42;
by which one sees God, [426], 25;
first overcome, [186], 23;
importance of vision in, [417], 21;
interpreter of heart, [214], 11;
man's, not microscopic, [555], 7;
one, better than two, [269], 40;
only in forehead, [488], 38;
seeing, of the first times, [434], 30;
single, to be venerated, [18], 48;
soul in the, [416], 10;
the power of, [57], 26;
the, sayings about, [426], 26-42;
the, under distraction, [43], 16;
to be single, [439], 12;
to negotiate for itself, [240], 34;
versus ear, as vehicle of knowledge, [385], 21;
where love, [72], 34
Eyes, affected by our heart, [337], 47;
and the belly, [63], 52;
and ears, as witnesses, [63], 51;
and what they indicate, [7], 13;
effect of shutting, [205], 47;
homes of silent prayer, [154], 48;
how guarded from error, [300], 1;
importance of using, [202], 4;
more trusted than ears, [276], 43;
more trustworthy than ears, [324], 2;
never satisfied, [154], 36;
one man's, spectacles to another, [332], 57;
our, exorbitant, [524], 44;
our, misuse of, [521], 24;
posted as sentinels, [324], 1;
rather than ears, [158], 43;
speaking and betraying power of, [541], 12;
the feast of, [264], 35;
to be cared for, [409], 33;
to see withal, [520], 23;
to look right on, [243], 9;
weak, weakness of, [530], 12;
weakness of most, [325], 13;
without looking, [126], 5
Eye-witness, and hearsay, [350], 13;
one, value of, [332], 14
F
Fable, Love's world, [64], 13
Face, a handsome, [112], 36;
and the mind, [426], 43, 44;
as revealing the heart, [190], 33;
expression of, contrasted with tongue, [458], 10;
full impression of, [205], 11;
God hath given you one, [126], 11;
like a benediction, [142], 36;
not deceptive, [204], 21;
the index of age, [98], 42;
the, of labour, Carlyle on, [512], 10;
two sides of, [302], 33
Faces, expressive, [466], 38;
that most charm us, [482], 29;
variety in, [206], 3
Facility, how to acquire, [539], 31
Fact, and speech, gulf between, [401], 1;
goodman, plain-spoken, [130], 39;
not law, [5], 27;
significance of a, [5], 25, 26; [287], 46;
stranger than fiction, [99], 9;
the question for jury, [4], 50;
the importance of, [457], 21
Faction, effect of, [381], 31
Factor, rule of, and minister compared, [140], 31
Facts, all enfolded in first man, [264], 22;
and the truth of reason, [421], 32;
beadrolls of, insignificance of, [556], 33;
dissipated by time, [486], 35;
downright, our need of, [529], 36;
modelled by the man, [51], 48;
plainest, men blind to, [161], 8;
stubborn things, [33], 7;
the emphasis of, [425], 4;
the great, [431], 19
Faculties, a delight to exercise, [313], 1;
man's, no inventory of, [475], 8;
our, and their exercise, [521], 16;
our, their last perfection, [438], 7;
the soul's, a misnomer, [413], 5
Faculty, indispensability of, [105], 51;
not to be forced, [293], 6;
the logical, [313], 6;
the imaginative, [313], 6
Fail, no such word as, to youth, [190], 48
Failing at all, [492], 20
Failings, how regarded by heaven, [474], 5;
lean'd to virtue's side, [156], 51
Failure, a chief cause of, [105], 22;
as a teacher, [525], 15;
bright side of, [252], 48;
fruit of, [104], 14;
in a great object, [472], 38;
sure road to, [456], 29;
the only, to fear, [446], 1;
the parents of, [193], 9
Failures, a cause of, [386], 2;
a lesson to us, [329], 17;
how to regard, [373], 8;
no, where no efforts, [144], 50;
not to daunt us, [206], 20;
often successes, [526], 21
Fair day's wages, a, Carlyle on, [5], 28
Faith, a great, [285], 27;
a lively, wages of, [506], 33;
all in all of, [415], 50;
alternation of periods of,
with denial, [187], 49; [447], 28;
an audacious, [530], 6;
and doubt contrasted as to their origin, [233], 25;
and hope, differences about, [186], 49;
and knowledge, difference between, [186], 50;
approved, reward of, [105], 58;
as fashion, [149], 29;
commended, [243], 32, 33;
demand of love, [353], 53;
desire of, faith enough, [176], 34;
disowned when questioned, [242], 8;
essence of, [425], 38;
essence of all, [427], 6;
fanatic, and falsehood, [99], 62;
in an omnipresent God, denial or mere lip-assertion of, [427], 6;
in days of sorrow, [523], 43;
in whom alone, [104], 3;
knowledge in, [383], 10;
lesson of, [462], 6;
loss of, [146], 33;
narrow, power of, [14], 26;
necessary to faithful doing, [152], 41;
once lost irreparable, [172], 8;
only, that wears well, [446], 2;
orthodox, defined, [60], 4;
our slavery from want of, [485], 39;
plain and simple, [467], 37;
power of, [111], 26; [114], 3; [185], 52; [279], 32; [448], 37; [492], 34; [558], 26;
principal part of, [449], 24;
proper power of, [449], 41;
resting on authority, [427], 8;
right, if life right, [110], 23;
right, defined, [474], 15;
sister of justice, [216], 39;
steps of, [455], 12;
strengthened by knowledge, [504], 23;
the great trial to, [384], 26;
the one thing needful, [110], 17;
the only sure foundation, [9], 1;
the power of, [200], 44; [312], 23; [319], 11;
the proper object of, [240], 14;
the root of, [340], 15;
want of, [110], 17; [507], 11; [558], 26;
want, at present, [423], 44;
wilful, confirmed by absurdity, [544], 37;
with centre everywhere, [554], 4;
wonder essential to, [560], 4;
Voltaire's definition of, [481], 40
Faithful, in little, [147], 8;
sure of reward, [105], 46
Faithfulness, commended, [28], 48
Faithless among the faithful, [100], 27
Faiths, in all, something true, [184], 31
Fallen, the, succouring, [371], 14
Falls, some, means to rise, [398], 7
False, in one thing, [101], 2;
knowledge of, a truth, [221], 18;
men, mischief done by, [312], 46;
the, evil influence of, [2], 49
Falsehood, a salve, [181], 9;
after falsehood, [100], 30;
adhesiveness of, [226], 12;
as weakness, [443], 31;
at touch of celestial temper, [301], 49;
evil of, [502], 6;
goodly outside of, [322], 31;
how regarded, [223], 21;
in kings, [494], 3;
man fire to, [92], 30;
obstacle to happiness, [56], 27;
path of, [447], 8;
soothing, [181], 9;
the success of, [512], 5;
to be renounced, [501], 40
Falsehoods, that are not lies, [466], 39
Falsities, all, to be alike treated, [71], 34
Falsity of things, more seeming than real, [480], 33
Fame, a thin web, [174], 7;
common, rarely wrong, [45], 13;
complacency in, [312], 29;
course of, [514], 39;
exceptional, [323], 24;
how one earns, [330], 32;
in no hurry for, [172], 14;
insignificance of, [155], 31; [533], 44;
lessened by acquaintanceship, [280], 2;
law of, [439], 31;
lust of, and wise men, [440], 10;
modestly enjoyed, [28], 20;
obtained and deserved, [398], 36;
Pope on, [311], 49;
posthumous, a vain desire, [555], 3;
rage for, [538], 23;
the price of, [443], 32;
the struggle for, [97], 48;
thirst for, [260], 7;
true, like our shade, [499], 48
Familiar, by proxy, [311], 7
Familiarity, lowering effect of, [181], 28
Families, and their best members, [176], 4;
only two, [72], 3
Family, a happy, [140], 14;
bargaining in, over the pottage, [442], 43;
home of peace, [190], 35;
heroism in the, [432], 32;
in the bosom of one's, [336], 51;
Burns' prayer for a, [545], 17;
virtue, importance of, [427], 13
Famine, effect of, on heart, [530], 18;
evil of, [101], 31
Fanaticism, contempt of, [90], 9;
defined, [90], 9;
effect of, on a man, [407], 5
Fancy, charm of, [442], 7;
compared with reason, [369], 34; [526], 20;
contrasted with imagination, [183], 2;
exacting, [292], 13;
fantastical, [395], 1;
giving way to understanding, [431], 5;
how bred, [411], 40;
over reason, what, [10], 19;
sugar of life, [69], 9;
the tyranny of, [201], 36;
turned necessity, [539], 18;
versus fancy, [522], 33;
without taste, [315], 41
Fancying in harmony with the fact, [369], 20
Fantasies, lightest, two meanings of, [503], 44
Fantasy, compared with understanding, [459], 33;
exorbitant demands of, [386], 46;
function of, [66], 5;
the age of, gone, [53], 25;
the power of, [266], 11;
the ripened fruit of, [387], 3
Far-away things, attractiveness of, [76], 11
Farces, seeming, tragedies, [268], 31
Farewell, hard to say, [555], 10;
Macpherson's, [317], 30
Farewells should be sudden, [244], 17
Farthing, a good, [31], 28
Farthings, valued, [480], 20
Fashion, a bad rule, [170], 23;
a maxim of, [88], 31;
a tyrant, [226], 13;
dominancy of, [526], 22;
effect of, [427], 14;
fool in, and one out of, [314], 19;
glass of, [322], 32;
imperious, [567], 1;
old and new, how regarded, [91], 1;
out of the, [19], 15;
power of, [385], 19; [440], 15;
tyranny of, [21], 16
Fashions, change of, a tax, [39], 45;
following the, [477], 10;
invented by fools, [108], 53
Fastidious, the, unfortunate, [238], 11
Fastidiousness to be avoided, [526], 27
Fatalism, faith of men of action in, [284], 10
Fate, all thralls of, [212], 21;
a mystery, [218], 12;
action of, on willing and unwilling, [73], 41;
and dreams of the past, [240], 47;

and the heart, [370], 24;
and the willing, [102], 47; [103], 3;
and the unwilling, [102], 47; [103], 3;
a pedagogue, [54], 25;
a, to be evaded, [217], 4;
best use of, [205], 50;
Cæsar's belief in, [34], 34;
certainty of, [111], 46;
cuffs of, on good and resolute man, [422], 22;
how to conquer, [491], 5;
in drawing of heart, [62], 3;
irresistible, [478], 11;
master of his, cannot complain, [60], 25;
most wretched, [415], 20;
not to be interrogated, [503], 1;
no evading, [308], 32;
no striving against, [264], 33;
our, what we make it,231, 8;
ordinations of, [517], 17;
our, how to overcome, [366], 12;
overloading of, [440], 16;
quarrelling with one's, [554], 37;
responsibility of, [33], 34;
scale of, lightest in, [550], 6;
shunned, embraced, [74], 8;
stars of, in the breast, [191], 44;
the book of, hidden all but a page, [154], 2;
the sorrowfulest, [454], 17;
to be submitted to, [535], 7;
under temptation, [412], 8;
undue respect to, [483], 9;
what we may make of, [523], 18
Fated, the, and the feared, [54], 37
Fates, our, like rivers in their rise, [33], 19;
the, work of, [427], 22
Father, banker provided by nature, [505], 31;
a, deceiving, [363], 43;
affection of, for daughter, [38], 29;
a, function of, in a family, [174], 27;
and his house, scorning, [494], 19;
and son, respect of, mutual, [148], 50;
and mother, indebtedness to, [65], 34; [66], 1;
a priest, [252], 46;
duty of, in training son, [158], 10;
when old and daughter, [489], 21;
words of, to his children, [463], 47
Fatherland, before life, [86], 6
Fathers, our, objects of pity, [186], 30;
our, to be as good as, [490], 8
Fatigue, most wearisome, [472], 36;
the best nightcap, [138], 10
Fault, a, denied, [506], 37;
a, virtue out of, [332], 2;
avoiding one, and rushing into another, [117], 8;
condemned ere committed, [46], 10;
every, at first monstrous, [93], 13;
excusing of a, [14], 49;
in every, folly, [186], 33;
man's grand, [266], 32;
which needs a lie, [314], 4
Fault-finders, nothing safe from, [315], 39
Fault-finding, not always safe, [508], 36;
of fools, [409], 2, 3;
our, [521], 11;
to be avoided, [283], 38;
without mending, [268], 58
Faultless, nothing, [553], 29
Faults, advantage from, [204], 17;
allied to excellences, [468], 13;
as taints of liberty, [32], 26;
committing and permitting, [428], 17;
confessed, half mended, [46], 16;
deception as regards our, [550], 23;
difficult to weed out, [398], 8;
effect of a call to give up, [344], 55;
Goethe on, [205], 20;
greatest of, [432], 30;
hard to cure, [523], 25;
how corrected, [34], 9;
in honest and dishonest, [69], 21;
lie gently on him, [395], 15;
men moulded out of, [28], 36;
mended, not to be referred to, [276], 30;
nature of, [9], 27;
none exempt from, [92], 2;
of bad and of good men, [25], 43;
of others and our own, [8], 21, 22;
of others, instructiveness of, [98], 16;
often corrected by chance, [39], 38;
of the player and the man, [10], 41;
one's own, best known, [169], 9;
one's own, easily pardoned, [101], 32;
others' zeal in amending, [315], 15;
our, not to discourage, [296], 41;
our own, and our neighbour's, [91], 53;
our relation to, as our own or others, [529], 16;
pleasure in others', [390], 26;
seeing only others', [50], 12;
seeking only for, [480], 17;
that kill us, [206], 22;
that look handsome, [322], 35;
to be thankful for, [93], 10
Faust, in a dilemma, [169], 41;
Goethe's, without fruit, [314], 34
Favour, a, against one's will, [28], 2;
a, what it consists in, [5], 32;
a, when to ask, [296], 3;
asking for, [149], 31;
how to confer a, [529], 4
Favours, injudiciously conferred, [27], 56, 57;
from the great, [116], 5;
refusing, [341], 46, 47
Fear, a bad preserver, [261], 39;
a, daily surmounting, value of, [142], 45;
an inventor, [227], 4;
and reverence contrasted, [492], 21;
desponding, effect of, [62], 30;
early and provident, [75], 31;
effect of, [121], 55; [492], 22;
effect of, on speech, [81], 46;
getting rid of, a first duty, [428], 14;
how bred, [387], 54;
incompatible with love, [255], 1;
incompatible with wisdom, [504], 38;
inconsistent with love, [146], 13;
of the Lord, [427], 26-29;
perpetual, evil of, [272], 46;
persuasive power of, [180], 33;
sign of low birth, [57], 15;
slavery to, [302], 18;
stages of, [457], 48;
cold, that freezes, [102], 20;
those who dwell in, [483], 7;
to be suppressed, [160], 22;
unknown to Germans, [14], 21;
unlimited, [70], 47;
unreasonableness of, [537], 15;
who has no, [264], 6
Feared by many, fearing many, [294], 7
Fearless man, a, [532], 32;
the, [150], 19
Fears, our effects of, [545], 1
Feast, constituents of a, [394], 19;
what constitutes, [206], 4
Feasts, by whom made and by whom eaten, [108], 56
Feather, incapable of momentum, [455], 37
Feeble, in work unhelpful, [305], 7;
the, to be supported, [488], 24
Feeling, an unpleasant, a warning, [95], 5;
and thought, [484], 42;
as opposed to thinking, [8], 58;
by whom induced, [33], 26;
compared with seeing, [384], 41;
delicacy of, [11], 8;
how to awaken, [483], 23; [401], 47;
importance of, [119], 26;
in reality keener than in song, [268], 38;
man of, fate of, [427], 19;
not attained by hunting for it, [531], 47;
not man's end, [266], 18;
one's, to be trusted, [184], 45;
power of, [264], 30;
strong, tendency of, [404], 5;
the analogy of, [44], 30
Feelings, at meeting and farewell, [338], 1;
by which we live, [525], 20, 21;
duration of, [497], 32;
fine, without vigour of reason, [106], 27;
fineness of, not given to every one, [217], 7;
great, like instincts, [135], 20;
our most exalted, [338], 37;
the, hid in man, [539], 16
Feet, her, beneath her petticoat, [155], 1
Feigned, the, never lasting, [315], 7
Felicity, from self alone, [162], 30;
greatest, [432], 11;
or infelicity, a man's, how to know, [544], 3;
in the soul, [163], 19
Fell, Dr., I do not love thee, [165], 47
Fellow, a lucky, [36], 40
Fellow-feeling, effect of, [5], 33
Fellowship, a, to cultivate, [542], 3;
founded on truth, [150], 24;
the end of existence, [312], 30
Fetters, a burden, [304], 29;
when one wishes to be in, [544], 44
Feud, an old, easily renewed, [47], 27
Fibres, tension of all, [427], 36
Fiction, compared with truth, [501], 48;
contrasted with fact, [369], 19, 20;
inferior to fact, [99], 12;
more potent than fact, [338], 2
Fictions, to resemble truth, [105], 31
Fiddlestick, the power of, [539], 8
Fidelity, among rebels, [370], 11;
but a name, [308], 45;
compared with justice, [569], 40;
contrasted with love, [246], 11;
gone, [67], 5;
importance of, [501], 25;
in small things, [3], 25;
to be practised, [504], 15
Field, a large, to ear, [166], 43
Fields, and cities, [70], 5;
holy, over whose acres, [158], 26;
where joy for ever dwells, [102], 21
Fiends, absolute, [2], 18
Fight, no, no victory, [174], 43;
to, and die, [492], 24;
to, with stronger, no obligation to, [473], 38
Fighting, an affair of the heart, [313], 10;
and being beaten, compared, [173], 10;
does not feed men, [294], 44
Fights, that, and runs away, [109], 51; [146], 14
Figure, a pleasing, value of, [16], 40
Finding, not the possession, sweet, [298], 1
Fine Art, as defined by Ruskin, [106], 23
Fine, characteristic of everything, [427], 39, 40;
thing, expense of buying, [547], 12
Finesse, a great step in, [198], 41;
hovers between virtue and vice, [225], 21;
recourse to, mark of incapacity, [227], 18
Finger-posts, authentic, few, [377], 41
Finished-off, man, no satisfying, [531], 17;
versus becoming, [281], 5
Finite, and infinite, respective conditions of, [205], 26;
let alone infinite, too much for man, [262], 21;
shadows forth infinite, [261], 45
Fire, a mighty, to quickly kindle, [482], 48;
a neglected, [294], 30;
a slow, [19], 53;
and wind, [484], 19;
its power, [27], 12;
little, to be trodden out, [8], 42;
matter for the, [541], 3;
no extinguisher, [179], 33;
sayings about, [427], 46, 47; 428, [1], 2;
slumbering in ashes, [233], 27;
the only, worth gauge or measure, [264], 20;
who walks through, [552], 45;
wind-fed and wind-extinguished, [320], 1
Fires, violent, [157], 10
Fireside, my own, an Eden, [540], 20
Firm, legal, advantage of two attorneys in, [476], 34
Firmament, unseen support of, [311], 26
Firmness, and rashness, [543], 24;
with pliability, [179], 8
Fitting, the, right, [540], 6
Flame and smoke as passing into each other, [203], 10
Flash, not the thunder, [206], 13
Flatterer, and tyrant, compared, [465], 35;
at whose expense he lives, [498], 36;
Latin word for, [438], 10;
Steele on, [165], 25;
the greatest, [474], 26;
to be avoided, [324], 44
Flatterers, why so obnoxious, [450], 45
Flattery, a visor to villany, [307], 39;
and censure, [347], 22;
attractive, [23], 10;
benefit of, [421], 7;
easier than praise, [275], 10;
how harmful, [390], 27;
ill-manners, [315], 49;
inconsistent with love, [303], 35;
to cajole fools, [301], 52;
to fools and wise men, [487], 50;
what is wanting to be pleased with, [539], 37
Flaws, where they abound, [427], 39, 40
Flesh to be sacrificed to spirit, [440], 8
Flock, no, without one dead lamb, [472], 39
Flogging before better than afterwards, [200], 9
Flower, a, despising, as a weed, [538], 26;
and seed, relation of, [428], 49;
born to blush unseen, [117], 23;
of humanity, and the slime it springs from, [429], 18;
of sweetest smell, [429], 1;
petal of, and granite boulder, [191], 12;
mystery included in a, [251], 16;
tender, with head elate, [457], 8;
thoughts from a, [494], 27
Flowers, as symbols of nature, [44], 33;
as preachers, [568], 32;
contrasted with weeds, [408], 22;
fair, by the wayside, [382], 15;
the sweetest, our treatment of, [529], 39;
Wordsworth on, [127], 18
Fluency, often scarcity, [421], 13;
secret of, [538], 42
Flunkeyism, [271], 19
Flush of health and of death, [469], 33
Flute, a beginner on, [192], 31;
and lyre, with voice compared, [429], 3;
blowing on, not playing, [30], 40
Fly, not without spleen, [89], 15;
those that, [482], 45;
Uncle Toby to the, [125], 1; [482], 21
Foe, no, no friend, [144], 27;
service of, [412], 52
Foes, our greatest, within, [187], 14;
what they teach, [115], 13
Folk, old and young, compared, [213], 15
Folks that stand on their heads, [478], 3
Follies, in relation to wisdom, [92], 39;
committed out of complaisance, [165], 12;
greatest of, [432], 31;
our own and others, differently regarded, [529], 9;
reasoning us out of our, [483], 2
Folly, a characteristic of, [87], 25; [195], 31;
compared with wisdom, [557], 5;
disdainful of itself, [329], 5;
greatest and commonest, [494], 20;
how alone to conceal, [404], 29;
in every one, [212], 10;
learned at college, [211], 43;
sayings about, [429], 5, 6;
shoot, as it flies, [98], 20;
the short, best, [227], 12;
universal, [172], 15;
without remedy, [80], 34
Fondness, fostered by time, &c., sure, [406], 1
Fontaine, La, epitaph of, [211], 44
Food, though given, to be wrought for, [125], 39
Fool, a great, [179], 7;
a, how to win, [45], 1;
a learned, [505], 36;
a, mark of, [404], 34;
a, when silent, [89], 16;
a witty, and a foolish wit, [29], 7;
a thorough, [144], 34;
according to Wm. Blake, [153], 19;
and his hobby, [2], 60;
and his opinions, [359], 29;
and learning, [236], 34;
and wise, [10], 39;
and wise contrasted, [252], 10;
and wise, diverse conduct of, [538], 40;
as he grows richer, [443], 22;
as regards reason, [148], 53;
at forty, [30], 2;
conscious of his folly, [151], 4;
effect of praising, [355], 13, 14;
familiarity with a, [32], 59;
getting rid of a, [31], 45;
hard arguing with, [333], 23;
hard to discover, [208], 23;
his sorrows and fears, [466], 25;
in his devotions, [504], 8;
in his own house, knowledge of, [349], 7;
kind, the worst, [437], 28;
let me play the, [241], 34;
mark of, [333], 1;
may be knave, [164], 31;
never changes his mind, [180], 41;
no, without admirer, [505], 37;
of virtue, be, not of vice, [108], 36;
old and young, [239], 35;
once a, always, [363], 18;
rather than saddening experience, [166], 26;
the conceit of, [404], 27;
the, sayings about, [429], 7-11;
to self worse than being fooled, [563], 12;
truths of a, [425], 26;
without the stuff of success, [505], 35
Foolish, man, aversion of, to the wise, [108], 38;
ever, never wise, [151], 48;
once very, never wise, [150], 30
Foolishest man, no, without a knowledge all his own, [472], 40
Foolishness, the thought of, [457], 35
Fools, all, [9], 62; [482], 20; [498], 23;
behaviour to, characteristic of a man, [315], 13;
deliberate, the wisdom of, [322], 17;
favoured by fortune, [113], 19;
favourites of women and fortune, [124], 36;
gabble of, evil of, [420], 6;
dependence of knaves on, [174], 47;
in majority, [89], 49; [239], 27;
indispensable to wise men, [118], 14;
intelligible only to God, [66], 48;
learn by experience, [89], 40;
learned, [236], 10;
many, [404], 28;
necessary to wise men, [127], 38;
old, [398], 32;

our feelings towards, [343], 54;
rush in where angels fear to tread, [109], 39;
safety in number of, [444], 23;
sayings about, [5], 54-68; 6, [1], 2; [90], 50-52;
talk of, [238], 39;
taught by experience, [97], 34;
that boast, [399], 14;
their company saddening, [421], 15;
to be first won, [11], 41;
trade by the eye, [219], 50;
unpitied by heaven, [154], 14;
with wit insufferable, [108], 17
Foot, had music in't, [157], 17;
slip of, and of tongue, [81], 18
Footway, rule of, [452], 13
Fop, described, [6], 2;
Diogenes on a, [186], 18;
one, plague to another, [292], 8
Forbidden, the, man's hunger for, [506], 17;
the, striven after, [300], 35
Force, affects action, not will, [225], 23;
and right, power of, [201], 47;
brute, as social bond, [32], 49;
contrasted with opinion, [335], 38;
even in a righteous cause, [89], 25;
giant for weak, [212], 42;
man of, virtue in, [471], 3;
no honestly exerted, lost, [302], 29;
personal, [347], 1;
when legitimate, [228], 18;
with and without judgment, [516], 11
Forebodings of evil, [114], 36
Foreign, rule insecure, [8], 25;
the, not to be shunned, [264], 32
Foresight of what is to come paralysing, [421], 4
Forest, planting and uprooting, [509], 26
Forethought, value of, [221], 34;
favours brave, [113], 39;
manly, [216], 48
Forfeited, the, irrecoverable, [305], 21
Forgetfulness contrasted with memory, [273], 14, 25
Forgetting, expediency of, [88], 16
Forgiven, the, duty of, [5], 18
Forgiveness, a source of weakness and strength, [94], 57;
natural, [163], 41;
rule of, [513], 30;
too ready, [364], 23;
with God and Christ, [471], 28
Forgiving, and forgetting, Schopenhauer on, [492], 31;
Schiller on, [513], 31
Forgotten things insignificant, [325], 23
Form, mathematical, versus living, [271], 2
Forms, our social, [339], 17;
their tendency to corrupt, [21], 17
Formulas, essential, [262], 4;
value to man of, [473], 31
Forsaking all, the profit of, [552], 9
Fortitude, as a virtue, [460], 42;
commended, [122], 45;
defined, [432], 27;
the root of, [340], 15;
true, defined, [499], 49;
value of, [471], 17
Fortunate, better than wise, [81], 13;
the always, [441], 14
Fortune, a better, to desire, [495], 51;
a broken, man of, [340], 27;
a fickle jade, [257], 45;
a goddess, man-made, [312], 4; [318], 30;
a great, [259], 13;
a great, making and keeping, [208], 10;
alternation of, with misfortune, [444], 7;
a man's best, [54], 5;
a man's, on his forehead, [414], 33;
a match for, [495], 3;
an expensive mistress, [353], 49;
and her gifts, [225], 26;
and her arrows, Dryden on, [240], 48;
and ruin, [269], 8;
and the prudent, [342], 23;
and wisdom, [557], 1;
a self-sufficing, [537], 32;
an unsuitable, [50], 49;
bad, may be changed to good, [455], 20;
bad, virtue for, [187], 15;
boast of, [473], 2;
choice of, [494], 37;
companion of valour, [516], 9;
dependent on the character, [39], 46;
diminished, how to behave under, [172], 17;
does not change nature, [245], 51;
effect of good and bad, [416], 44;
everywhere, [549], 29;
fatal lures of, [22], 34;
fatal obstructions to, [467], 33;
favoured of, at home, everywhere, [113], 32;
favourite of, [22], 48;
footsteps of, [257], 34;
frowns of, not to daunt, [242], 16;
frustrating power of, [38], 8;
Goethe on effect on him of good and bad, [154], 26;
good, [564], 5;
good, a cloak, [530], 8;
good, accompanied by good, [538], 7;
good and bad, a necessity, [224], 22;
good and bad, as elements of virtue, [136], 45;
good and bad, how to act in, [182], 34;
good, and good sense, [523], 28;
good, folly of not embracing, [143], 6;
good, from our endeavours, [129], 29;
good, hard to sustain, [527], 15;
good, mother of, [401], 20;
good or bad, to whom it falls, [232], 49;
good or bad, ill to determine, [523], 34;
good or bad, to what we ascribe, [520], 40;
good, our stomach for, [339], 23;
good, preferred to wisdom, [137], 42;
good, to the soldier, [350], 16;
good, to be seized, [158], 21;
good, virtue for, [187], 15;
her aim in her gifts, [172], 18;
how to behave under change of, [172], 16;
how to manage, [528], 36;
how to make, a friend, [177], 40;
how to overcome, [541], 9;
indifference to, [503], 17;
inequalities of, Burns' lament over, [253], 19;
large, misery of keeping, [280], 23;
loom of, and the webs, [439], 39;
making, mistress, [202], 54;
maligned, [207], 24;
man maker of his, [92], 17;
neither to elate nor depress, [390], 10;
not to be mistress, [296], 40;
not to be yielded to, [565], 4;
one's, in one's self, [75], 13;
one's, no fleeing from, [107], 37;
ounce of, value of, [279], 10;
ever with industry, [549], 27;
partiality of, [53], 42;
power of, [163], 25;
power of, by whom alone confessed, [448], 38;
power of, limited, [299], 2;
present and past compared, [240], 25;
question about, [450], 25;
reverse of, Horace in, [231], 6;
ruler of life, [201], 48;
smiling or frowning, [394], 36;
surest passports to, [115], 3;
the arbiter of, [157], 9;
the favoured of, [68], 29; [307], 10;
the goal of, attained, [541], 42;
unstable, [331], 13, 33;
vanity of seeking, [480], 9;
vicissitudes of, [225], 25; [514], 2;
visit of, [473], 25;
the, which nobody sees, [429], 17;
what the benefits of, require, [541], 18;
when she means most good, [543], 26;
with the fortunate, [185], 13;
without an enemy, [413], 18;
without fairness, [326], 30;
without prudence, [318], 30.
See Fortuna.
Fortune's fool, [164], 42
Fortunes, and husbands, [518], 48;
how made formerly and now, [112], 34;
large, sayings about, [230], 15, 16
Forwards, the great thing, [431], 41;
the word, [517], 33
Fought all his battles o'er again, [399], 37
Fountain, smallest, heaven in, [301], 54
Fowls, far-off, Burns on, [102], 14
Fox, and hedgehog, tricks of, [18], 31;
and his captor, [285], 27;
and his knavery, [59], 55;
and lion compared, [519], 6;
cunning of, [30], 14;
once caught, [505], 34;
one, more than enough, [79], 8;
sayings about, [429], 21, 22;
skin of, sewed to the lion's, [52], 14;
taken in by a fowl, [160], 4
France, in, nation not corporate, [226], 25;
in the van, [225], 28;
inconsistencies in, [498], 31;
indebtedness of, to Corneille, [498], 51;
monarchy in, [225], 27
Francis I. after his defeat at Pavia, [498], 32
Franklin, motto on bust of, [84], 36
Frankness, entire, permitted only to a few, [105], 10
Fraud, defined, [70], 48;
detected in a, distrusted, [365], 24;
first and worst, [428], 3;
in generalities, [70], 52;
to conceal, [114], 15
Frederick the Great, a king, [179], 25;
his indifference to criticism, [166], 14;
last words of, [226], 17;
social ideal of, [188], 7;
tired of ruling slaves, [169], 40;
two sides of his character, [5], 48
Frederick William I. of Prussia's boast, [170], 9;
in reference to his son, [156], 27
Free, country, life in, [184], 11;
creature, a perfectly, [472], 11;
man, according to Klopstock, [152], 29;
man, the, defined, [429], 24;
man, the only, [143], 48;
no man, not lord of himself, [298], 28;
not all, who mock their chains, [86], 35;
settled in heaven, [393], 30;
the, man, [366], 32;
to be, what it is, [490], 15;
who thinks himself, without being free, [298], 29;
who to be deemed, [304], 22;
who would be, [155], 21; [220], 7
Freedom, [265], 17;
abroad versus slavery at home, [28], 29;
absolute, [2], 19;
and cultivation, [48], 45;
and peace, [481], 36;
but a name, [281], 16;
civil, home of, [549], 14;
conceded, [167], 36;
condition of, [554], 9; [556], 29;
dependence of, on knowledge, [220], 36;
dependent on law, [53], 38;
enough, [171], 17;
essential to existence, [114], 35;
from woman's bonds, [84], 34;
her quiet eye, [313], 31;
human, [61], 1, 2, 5;
in chains, [264], 31;
in bonds, [331], 44;
native to man, [172], 42;
no barriers to, [154], 30;
no, without justice, [182], 24;
often imaginary, [267], 14;
only in obedience, [96], 22;
on the mountains, [23], 9;
perfect, the condition of, [483], 32;
popular, Mephisto on, [54], 38;
real, condition of, [205], 28;
sayings about, [64], 16, 17;
spiritual, attainable by all, [245], 50;
the basis of, [335], 6;
the condition of, [267], 20; [306], 8;
the height of, [304], 13;
the measure of, [394], 51;
the only possible, [193], 11;
the only, worth the name, [446], 4;
the seat of, [67], 12;
the secret of, [190], 39;
true, in self-command, [90], 54;
when abused, [344], 46;
which we cannot use, [534], 13;
who deserves, [334], 52;
who has sufficient, [15], 16;
with despotism, [495], 14;
without self-command, [304], 6; [306], 8
Freedom's battle once begun, [109], 41
Freemen, corrupted, [48], 25
Free-will, necessity of, [265], 13;
source of slavery, [393], 34;
the function of, [95], 35
French, and English, contrasted, [222], 21;
Mme. de Staël on, [359], 5;
Revolution, first watchword of, [114], 12
Frenzy, effect of, compared with reason, [258], 44
Fretting, vanity of, [69], 2
Friend, a constant, [3], 26;
a, defined, [298], 41;
a desirable, [169], 22;
a faithful, Napoleon on, [5], 30;
a far-off, effect of tidings of, [423], 50;
a good, [6], 41;
a good, value of, [270], 48; [505], 16;
a, love for, [30], 29;
a necessity for a man, [171], 18;
a reconciled, [17], 43;
a reserved, danger of, [472], 2;
a stranger, not an estranged, [29], 2;
a, to all, [146], 61;
a true, [513], 20;
a, value of, [384], 30;
a virtuous, casting off, [491], 16;
a, with world shut out, [386], 20;
an agreeable, Horace's preference for, [299], 37;
an imprudent, dangerous, [376], 53;
an old, not easily lost, [187], 42;
and his faults, [13], 29;
as nettle, not echo, [29], 10;
admonition of, value of, [419], 21;
difficulty of helping, in trivial matters, [315], 46;
essential to happiness, [289], 5;
everybody's, nobody's, [222], 9;
faithful and just to me, [149], 24;
from enemy, [97], 8;
great service of, [432], 5;
having no need of, [143], 2;
how to approach, [243], 22;
how to keep a new, [70], 18;
how to live with, [252], 3;
how to treat, [486], 2;
ignorant, danger from, [315], 45;
man to spurn as, [169], 28;
mindfulness of, when happy, [490], 28;
mistaken zeal for, [145], 51;
no, without fault, [207], 25;
only way to have, [446], 26;
only if proved, [301], 55;
only, self, [78], 6;
rule for choice of, [57], 50; [80], 26;
rule in choosing a, [62], 4;
the candid, Canning's aversion to, [123], 17;
the service of a, [412], 52;
the, to trust, [499], 4;
the wounds of, [100], 26;
to be steadfast, [544], 41;
true, value of, [81], 21;
turned enemy, [398], 4;
want of true, misery of, [199], 3;
what most endears a, [314], 18;
who does not befriend, [149], 39;
who cannot bear foes, [149], 38;
who flatters and detracts, [405], 42;
who not needs, [157], 44;
without, no good enjoyable, [318], 22;
worth dying for, hard to find, [423], 35;
wronging, penalty of, [149], 10;
Zeno's definition of, [10], 12
Friendly relations, how to keep up, [334], 3
Friends, after wine-casks drained, [68], 4;
a hundred, not too many, [79], 8;
a necessity, [529], 35; [538], 13;
a thousand, not too many, [150], 28;
absent, in the memory, [442], 1;
among, or enemies, [381], 7;
and enemies, [242], 15;
and foes, space for, [14], 53;
and their characteristics, [6], 5-12, 41;
and their purses, [124], 12;
being without, [42], 29;
better than grateful dependants, [200], 29;
but a name, [308], 45;
by choice, [235], 16;
choice and change of, [28], 25;
community among, [45], 26;
created by transactions, [473], 36;
dead, a magnet to next world, [75], 6;
Emerson on his, [288], 7;
essential to enjoyment, [318], 22;
failings of, how to treat, [85], 36;
faithful, falling out of, [427], 11;
false, [100], 41, 42; [398], 11;
feeling at misfortune of, [53], 7;
good, man good, [566], 29;
grapple, to thy soul, [429], 28;
hard task to make, of all, [327], 55;
having many, [321], 35;
how to choose, [185], 29;
in adversity, [13], 28; [39], 1;
in distress, [514], 15;
in need, having, [143], 2;
indispensability of, [559], 33;
lightly cast off, [142], 15;
like fiddle-strings, [114], 30;
misfortunes of, not displeasing, [181], 25; [190], 12;
mutual property, [12], 60;
no true, his who fears to make a foe, [153], 14;
not four, in world, [210], 44;
not to be suspected, [179], 13;
old, [327], 14, 15; [361], 39;
old, best, [77], 47;
our, and our faults, [338], 4;
our estimate for, [96], 57;
preferable to wealth, [37], 54;
prudence of gaining, [202], 11;
real, the value of, [369], 12;
reticence with, [71], 33;
sayings about, [237], 46, 47;
test of, [329], 21;
thou hast, [482], 31;
three good, [148], 46;

true, hard to distinguish, [239], 8;
true, to one another, [499], 51;
wealth, [504], 24;
when wealth goes, [160], 29;
with change of fortune, [71], 15
Friendship, a selfish, [104], 45;
compared with love, [114], 49;
a, that is binding, [315], 11;
a useless, [413], 9;
after love, [141], 11;
and little gifts, [219], 38;
and love, [254], 3, 18;
and love, incompatible, [253], 42;
and passion, contrasted, [6], 11;
and pity, incompatible, [348], 49;
as a pleasure, [246], 36;
attractive power of, [90], 57;
attributes of, [13], 30-37;
basis of, [350], 19;
being without, [479], 45;
belated, [470], 38;
by proxy, [311], 7;
chastity of, [384], 5;
comfort of, in adversity, [25], 16;
compared with hatred, [141], 21;
contrasted with love, [255], 22;
defined, [222], 10; [377], 11;
despised, [182], 16;
double effect of, [481], 30;
effect of distance and absence in, [69], 39;
essence of, [425], 39;
experience of those who cultivate, [483], 17;
fate of, [568], 40;
faults notwithstanding, [11], 47;
female, growth of, [104], 30;
forgiving, [224], 7;
fruit of, [452], 39;
genuine, a test of, [413], 8;
gifts of, [511], 24;
grass on path of, [242], 20;
greatest blow to, [314], 24;
how kept green, [7], 20;
ideal of, [436], 12;
imperilled through money, [27], 17;
imperilled by pecuniary favours, [103], 25;
in dividing inheritance, [190], 25;
judgment before, [214], 3;
lasting, basis of, [170], 30;
light of, [439], 11;
no, without virtue, [392], 46;
not at too heavy a cost, [172], 20;
not based on feasting, [103], 59;
not to be cheap, [260], 32;
often due to weakness, [219], 7;
our, and charity, [337], 22;
that has to be constantly bought, [209], 21;
the claims of, [247], 47;
the first law in, [138], 49;
to be mutual, [168], 21;
tried in need, [128], 37;
true, [413], 22; [499], 52; [500], 1-3;
true, a feature of, [88], 29;
true, how possible, [163], 1;
true, indissoluble, [145], 39;
true, without ceremony, [38], 24;
unfitness for, [554], 36;
value of, [392], 35;
without weakness of, without strength of, [150], 45
Friendships, broken, no repairing, [32], 46;
dissolved by silence or neglect, [286], 5;
for eternity, [284], 1;
new, not at expense of old, [317], 26;
not founded on affinities, [315], 16;
of years, the depth of, [337], 44;
schoolboy, [470], 8;
when real, [543], 30
Frog, a, if it had teeth, [89], 17
Frost, God's plough, [429], 29
Froth, not beer, [382], 18
Frugality, a small, often no economy, [12], 35;
an estate, [309], 30;
and fortune, [193], 35;
and parsimony, [558], 39;
with contentment, [70], 13
Fruit, forbidden, [112], 9;
from labour, [324], 28;
late, keeps well, [230], 38;
present in the seed, [37], 12;
test of a tree, [116], 42;
the latest, ripens, [55], 24;
the worst, [474], 48
Fruits, the test, [564], 21
Fulness, all, here, [155], 6;
lapsing in, [494], 3
Function defined, [3], 52
Fury of a woman scorned, [154], 3
Future, a form of, [519], 5;
a happy, predicted by George Sand, [433], 13;
a, open to all, [537], 2;
always to be provided for, [173], 36;
and past compared, [447], 3;
anxiety about, [71], 30;
concern for, bootless, [66], 20;
construed from past, [1], 5;
duty with regard to, [495], 39;
for whom, [234], 38;
greatness of, [440], 19;
how to face, without fear, [220], 11;
how to see farthest into, [528], 13;
how to treat, [501], 15;
ignorance of, [253], 25;
improvidence in regard to, [326], 12;
in the porch of, [429], 40;
judged of by past, [167], 28;
learned from past, [169], 5;
not our concern, [296], 48;
not to be desired, [165], 40;
not to be feared, [103], 47;
solicitude about, [399], 16;
state, effect of uncertainty regarding, [69], 20, 50;
thought of, elevating, [94], 49;
veiled by God, [359], 23;
what it hides, [67], 21;
wisely hidden, [384], 47
Futurity, uncertainty regarding, [528], 14
G
Gaiety, a medium in, [477], 46
Gain, at expense of credit, [52], 47;
effect of greed of, [183], 19;
lust of, [258], 5;
scent of, good, [257], 42;
unjust, [356], 6;
unjustly distributed, [77], 53;
worldly, and loss, [20], 52
Gains, evil, losses, [271], 31;
light, profit of, [149], 10;
not all gains, [309], 24;
small, profit of, [219], 34;
unjust, instances of, [399], 8
Galba, the emperor, Tacitus on, [260], 9
Galileo and his "Yet it moves," 84, 12
Gall, a little, effect of, [505], 33
Gallant, the, motive of, [386], 18
Gambler, a young, [214], 43
Gambling, and travelling, compared, [499], 10;
gain by, a loss, [551], 23;
nature of, [565], 31;
pedigree and progeny of, [233], 37
Gamester, keep, from dice, [217], 15
Gaming-table and fortune, [549], 27
Garb, makes not the monk, [223], 17
Garden, the first, [127], 50
Gardener, business of, [494], 39;
grand old, and his wife, [116], 35
Garibaldi to his soldiers, [397], 11
Garrulousness, disesteem of, [484], 36
Gatherer and disposer of other men's stuff, [164], 38
Gay, the, disliked by the sad, [324], 5
Gear, gathering, for independence, [491], 17
Geese for swans, [9], 53
Gem, why so small, [19], 49
Gems, valueless as food, [403], 20
General, a, in prosperity, [370], 17;
a, the qualities of, [368], 32;
influence of good, on his men, [31], 61;
the best, [551], 40
Generalising resented by Nature, [292], 33
Generality, how to win over the, [491], 12
Generalship in good fortune and bad, [73], 37
Generation, cursing one's, [303], 39;
each, a duty laid on, [199], 51
Generosity, after justice, [27], 26;
and justice combined, power of, [429], 47;
charm of, [129], 31;
easier than justice, [162], 6;
in train of high birth, [225], 30;
rare, [269], 23;
versus business, [169], 12;
virtue of a man, [163], 40;
with what is another's, [98], 45
Geniality defined, [133], 28
Genius, a characteristic of, [198], 15;
a common fate of, [510], 27;
ages of, superseded by theories of, [466], 19;
a fine, criticism of, generally false, [176], 33;
after the philosophic ideal, [405], 43;
always melancholy, [540], 46;
a mark of, [491], 8, 15, 46;
a necessity for triumph of, [48], 65;
and education, [77], 11;
and wit, functions respectively of, [53], 36;
and fortune's favours, [113], 40;
and taste, why seldom together, [554], 45;
and the world, [464], 24;
as such, unconscious, [169], 47;
at its rising, [377], 31;
a true, natural, [289], 19;
a truly great, mark of, [22], 6;
by outstripping reason, [239], 6;
capacity for patience, [233], 28, 29;
characteristics of, [492], 36;
connection of, with childhood, [90], 24;
contrasted with mediocrity, [272], 3;
contrasted with talent, [409], 44, 45, [47], 49, 50; [410], 1;
contrasted with wit, [223], 4;
dependent on attention, [22], 13;
defined, [195], 20; [513], 14; [546], 4;
distinctive mark of, [489], 29;
development of, condition of, [490], 9;
effect of adversity on, [194], 10, 11;
effect of prosperity on, [194], 11;
endowments peculiar to, [6], 25;
every great, and his vocation, [91], 15;
every work of, characteristic of, [93], 53;
fine, envy of, [207], 31;
great, how formed, [6], 66;
greatest, most indebted, [432], 13;
greatest works of, acquaintance with, [493], 13;
honour done to, [194], 7;
how often dumb, [269], 10;
human, its limitations, [333], 44;
idleness, the blight of, [5], 20;
in what its greatest power, [91], 3;
its indebtedness, [526], 25;
often without talent, [269], 11;
lamp of, [37], 45;
man of, how ruined, [217], 18;
man of, one consideration for every, [549], 41;
men of, all workers, [450], 39;
men of, as men of business, [276], 5;
men of, generosity of, [276], 4;
men of, in advance, [563], 9;
men of (see Men of Genius);
men of, two divisions of, [496], 19;
men of, unregarded, [176], 4;
mistake and regret of, [71], 41;
nature in league with, [280], 52;
no great, quite sane, [318], 27;
no lonely son of, to despair, [241], 46;
no, without madness, [472], 50;
noblest function of, [416], 20;
not attainable by labour alone, [315], 47;
not to be constrained and urged, [12], 45;
of light, [429], 48;
often hid under rude exterior, [21], 48;
often of slow growth, [268], 19;
often without talent, [269], 11;
on the summit of the ideal, [206], 7;
pith of, contracted, [395], 17;
privilege of, [206], 41;
selection a test of, [521], 13;
self-defended, [91], 4;
subject to gloom, [466], 35;
superior to intellect, [137], 38;
test of, [494], 23;
the bestower of, [494], 3;
the death of, [424], 18;
the first qualification of, [53], 33;
the great nursery of, [289], 46;
the highest, characterised, [434], 39;
the patrons of, [28], 22;
the power of, [190], 44;
the pride of, [400], 33;
the purpose of, [201], 45;
the school of, [47], 42;
the stern friend of, [397], 29;
the three requisitions of, [325], 15;
three things that enrich, [485], 26;
tendency of, to eccentricity, [76], 32, 33;
true, sign of, [22], 4; [542], 32;
two kinds of, [468], 35;
unconsciously developed, [92], 31;
under misfortune, [379], 24;
vain sigh of, [488], 50;
versus talent, [54], 32;
warped by education, [77], 21;
what forms, [396], 7;
without a heart, [536], 14;
without moderation, [281], 24;
without power, [548], 25;
without taste, [380], 17;
without training, [78], 7;
works and words of, [474], 47;
work of, a child of solitude, [3], 35
Geniuses, great, biographies of, [133], 29;
those that look like, [478], 13
Genoese, proverb about, [450], 1
Gentil man, according to Chaucer, [143], 25
Gentility and vulgarity, [102], 34
Gentle, world gentle to, [121], 38;
yet not dull, [484], 11
Gentleman, a, characteristics of, [6], 27, 28;
a, outfit of, [137], 11;
a true, rare, [275], 44;
a questionable, [6], 29;
an original, [529], 10;
best dressed, [143], 46;
by nature, [149], 37;
contrasted with clown, [181], 10;
Horace's characteristics of, [86], 42;
how formed, [77], 7;
manners of, defined, [346], 15;
mark of, [49], 4;
sphere of, [81], 3;
the badge of a, [373], 46;
the best, [143], 47;
the first and the last, [199], 13;
the word of, [463], 42
Gentlemen, rare, [520], 35
Gentleness, antidote for cruelty, [22], 2;
commended, [400], 33;
connection of, with firmness, [205], 22;
more pleasing than strength, [283], 33
Gentry, rabble amongst, [470], 22
Genuine, hard to eliminate, [331], 46;
the, and the spurious, [536], 15;
the durability of, [519], 20
Geologist, an antiquarian, [233], 30
Geometry, road to, [474], 17
German God, the, the temple of, [298], 9
Gethsemane, victory of, attainable, [524], 38
Getting, and getting by renouncing, [201], 39;
easier than keeping, [122], 14;
no, what we don't bring, [305], 42
Ghost, a, never visible to two, [63], 15; [302], 1;
raising one, effect of, [177], 9
Ghosts, the only genuine, [473], 39;
whom they visit, [122], 1
Giant, on the shoulders of, [37], 55;
strength of, tyrannous to use, [201], 34
Giant's strength, how excellent, [326], 2
Gift, a, dearer than a purchase, [535], 47;
a, in each for all, [57], 17;
a rare, [495], 12;
a, we can receive, [522], 46;
an acceptable, [145], 1;
better than a prayer, [79], 31;
every good, from God, [91], 8, 9;
smallest, how made great, [91], 6;
that destroys liberty, [53], 6;
the only, [446], 6
Gifted man, the, defined, [430], 7
Gifts, against Nature's law, [377], 13;
an enemy's, [76], 39;
effect of, on freedom, [544], 27;
evil effects of, [430], 4;
gate of, closed at birth, [543], 22;
God's, [125], 38, 39, [42], 44, 45, [46], 48, 54; 126, [1], 2, 4, 10;
of God, how to treat, [522], 25;
of God to man, [262], 7;
often losses, [401], 36;
power of, [52], 30;
receiving, a loss, [245], 28;
the best, least admired, [417], 38;
to receive, [495], 13;
when givers prove unkind, [496], 11;
who can be trusted with, [334], 51;
winning power of, [286], 34;
without election, [326], 30
Girl, education of, Ruskin on, [417], 18;
proper confidant of, [449], 39;
qualities we love in a, [525], 30
Girls, beauty and deformity in, Ruskin on, [302], 2;
morality of, [443], 6
Giver, a cheerful, [127], 12;
and receiver, rules for, [241], 9;
love of, not gift of lover, [151], 41
Giving, an honour, [80], 18;
and receiving, [191], 16;
Bismarck's maxim on, [72], 29;
business of rich, [119], 11;
contrasted with receiving, [492], 41;
effect of, [525], 5;
for one's gratification, deemed a merit, [544], 22;
hand, a, [6], 33;
not receiving, our gain, [95], 11;
prompt, [30], 26;
to poor, Diderot on, [71], 21;
without bottom, [230], 18
Gladiator, the wounded, [381], 3
Gladness, alternates with sadness, [379], 17;
peculiar to man, [416], 9;
sown for the upright, [249], 18
Gladsome thing, the most, [443], 46
Glance, a, significance of, [150], 15
Glances, progeny of, [109], 42
Glass, first to fourth, [428], 19
Glasses, cracked, easily broken,

[118], 50
Glib and oily art, [169], 1
Glitter, not gold, [10], 29;
the fascination of mere, [407], 32
Glitters, what, temporary, [535], 9
Gloaming, wooing in, [64], 3
Globe, the mad-house of universe, [168], 45
Gloomy temper, foolish or worse, [540], 26
Glory, a spur, [195], 47;
after death, [43], 19;
ambition for, [552], 20;
bewitching power of, [117], 20;
false, [100], 43;
inveteracy of desire of, [88], 18;
in rising after a fall, [430], 11;
love of, Talleyrand on, [256], 7;
mixt with humbleness, [132], 3;
no, without danger, [88], 48;
our greatest, [338], 8;
paths of, [447], 13;
popular, a coquette, [352], 44;
rejection greater than conquest of, [78], 39;
shadow of virtue, [124], 19;
that is unreal, [124], 18;
the custody of, as a task, [155], 36;
the path to, [22], 40;
the torch of, [103], 27, 28;
to him who despises it, [124], 21
Gluttony, effect of, on heart, [530], 18;
effect of, on mind, [186], 17
Goal, how to attain, [118], 52;
our, a riddle, [539], 19;
our political, [313], 22;
steps to, [203], 42
God, a, all mercy, [6], 35;
a blank tablet, [130], 49;
a conception of, [497], 17;
a, over and behind us, [470], 19;
a, the hypothesis of, Laplace on the, [393], 3;
acknowledging, [169], 48;
acts of, [183], 11;
alive to misery, [308], 31;
all-avenging, [38], 26;
all-pervading, [87], 17;
all things full of, [57], 30; [213], 25; [214], 47; [406], 49;
an absentee, [197], 29;
and existence, [437], 14;
and heaven, as gifts, [488], 12;
and His laws, [292], 36;
and His word, Koran on, [492], 46;
and Mammon, service of, incompatible, [564], 11;
and soil, as creditors, [202], 8;
and St. Edmund, for sole friends, [518], 24;
and the right, [192], 32;
as builder, [91], 27;
as His worshipper, [19], 44;
as the only just, [84], 25;
as working and suffering, or reposing, [205], 26;
barred by our idolatries, [546], 36;
before or in, state of feeling, [170], 11;
being of, encompassed with difficulty, [324], 29;
believing and acknowledging, different, [169], 48;
better deal with, than saints, [200], 32;
cannot be recompensed, [131], 6;
cause of, and emancipation of reason, [227], 23;
condition of knowing, [525], 8;
denying, evil effect of, [479], 37;
effect of living with, [542], 14;
eternity, His vindication, [123], 7;
existence of, absurdity of proving the, [82], 17;
existence of a personal, [87], 24;
existence of, proving or doubting, [495], 8;
fear of, effect of, [484], 7;
folly of proving existence of, [358], 2;
for all, [93], 15;
forgotten and prayed to, [284], 17;
found twice, [524], 5;
geometries, quoted, [524], 34;
gifts of, all good, [9], 49;
give to, his due, [375], 5;
glory of, present in all things, [485], 35;
good and just in all life, [399], 46;
goodness of, infinite, [9], 34;
helpful to the helpless, [130], 47;
here or nowhere, [426], 6;
His dwelling-place, [192], 17;
His omnipresence and omniscience, [492], 46;
how best discerned, [153], 54;
how He is to be found, [526], 19;
how to attain knowledge of, [220], 4;
how to honour or insult, [476], 4;
how to lose, [384], 44;
image of, in man, [539], 29;
in Christ, rational acknowledgment, Browning on, [168], 23;
in history, [150], 23;
in nature and man, [321], 29;
in relation to universe, [481], 17;
in the bosom, [430], 17;
in the breast, [6], 36;
in the breast, limited power of, [60], 5;
in the depth of the soul, [130], 48;
in the heart, [131], 2; [556], 11;
in the heart of him who longs for Him, [324], 48;
in the living and becoming, [422], 47;
in the mouths of philosophers, [347], 36;
in the whirlwind, [376], 35;
in the will, His condescension, [294], 33;
inscrutable, [498], 9;
irreverence towards, [529], 27;
kindness of, [99], 23;
kingdom of, how to enter, [512], 52;
kingdom of, popularly and figuratively, [495], 4;
knowledge of, [437], 40;
knowledge of, identified with justice, [144], 7;
living to, alone, [144], 23;
love of, test of, [147], 52;
man needs, [203], 28;
man, the key to, [478], 30;
men of, have always been, [276], 1;
misplaced trust in, [176], 8;
name of, not to be taken in vain, [185], 3;
nature of, not to be searched into, [288], 46;
near to man, [395], 19;
necessary to invent, [390], 7;
no, agreeable to every one, [546], 29;
no repose out of, [483], 30;
not found in soul, not found anywhere, [152], 33;
not waiting in churches, [535], 10;
of this world, [430], 16;
of traditional believers, [430], 15;
omnipresence of, [130], 50; [131], 8; [172], 30;
only to be left for a better master, [112], 40;
original and end, [116], 25;
our, a household God, [338], 5;
our being in, [187], 27;
our conception of, [520], 38;
power of contrasted with man's, [262], 14;
presence-chamber of, [202], 40;
promises of, [449], 36;
purposes of abstruse, [214], 27;
record of appearances of, [418], 24;
secondary, no God, [151], 50;
seeking, outside the soul, [385], 8;
sense of a, [211], 15;
Son of, embraced by faith, [404], 9;
sovereign, [89], 39;
supreme, [174], 6;
supreme over stars, [21], 1;
the art of, [421], 41;
the great proof of, [460], 41;
the greatness of, [173], 20;
the impossibility of proving non-existence of, [223], 35;
the, of the Koran 472, 45;
the living garment of, [292], 2;
the love of, [484], 13;
the love of, breadth of, [439], 50;
the, of our time, [282], 39;
the portion of those that love, [98], 19;
the power of, [299], 7;
the provider, [63], 12;
the soul of all, [9], 6;
the true physician, [130], 52;
the true, spirit of, [556], 22;
the, within, [87], 3, 4; [469], 37;
thy convoy in storm, [230], 27;
to be acknowledged, [313], 14;
to be obeyed, rather than man, [527], 37;
true honouring of, [142], 54;
true love of, [147], 48;
trust in, [105], 25;
trust in, and do right, [242], 57;
trust in, commended, [547], 19;
trust in, Cromwell's, [360], 35;
universal conception of, [141], 38;
unlimited and all containing, [493], 18;
unlimited by space and time, [486], 26;
unnamable, [532], 8;
veiled and unveiled, [292], 31, 32;
ways of, just, [215], 29, 30;
web of, without beginning or end, [472], 7;
what alienates from, [540], 31;
what comes from, destiny of, [534], 35;
what is meant for, sacred, [520], 2;
where and how to know, [472], 6;
where men weep, [382], 17;
where to seek and find, [567], 18;
who seeks, in the dark and cold, [552], 25;
who would find, must bring, [554], 28;
wisdom and judgments of, [322], 15;
with us, everything, [371], 12;
without, nothing but darkness, [326], 26;
without to be sought for within, [288], 2;
word of, [520], 7;
word of, near, [463], 41;
work of, character of, [519], 21;
work of, first and last, [428], 11;
works of, a book, [469], 22;
works of, still glorious, [66], 43;
worshipped, if known, [63], 5
God-forsaken, cry of the, [422], 21
Godlike, the, sadness of, [475], 20;
thing, one, in world, [191], 43
God-protected people, [66], 34
God's council chamber, no key to, [137], 16;
delight, [325], 28;
elect, called to be sad, [127], 51;
gifts to man, [306], 45;
goodness, implied in His being, [130], 40;
help, helpless without, [156], 35;
laws, omnipresence of, [306], 39;
life, in man, [420], 18;
light for all, [543], 31;
love, no falling out of, [456], 23;
mills, [131], 9;
name not to be taken in vain, [409], 26;
operations contrasted with man's, [273], 44;
plan unfathomable, [141], 33;
presence, the real, [547], 38;
promise, a pillow, [306], 38;
Sabbath work, [428], 11;
voice, the true, [458], 43;
work and man's contrasted, [197], 38;
work, full of Himself, [298], 39;
work, perfect, [127], 15, 27; [541], 29
Gods, avenging, feet of, [68], 17;
effect of adoring, [480], 7;
fate of favourites of, [330], 33;
gifts of, misintelligence of, [321], 27;
ground of faith in, [270], 26;
how to draw near, [556], 32;
how to resemble, [217], 36; [427], 35;
joy of the, [532], 5;
mills of, [335], 35;
not to be tempted, [61], 11; [242], 11;
rural, familiarity with, [113], 33;
sayings about, [430], 20-31;
secrets of, no prying into, [242], 11;
tempting the, [506], 7;
the, among men, [545], 33;
the, and their gifts, [68], 13;
the existence of, how suggested, [356], 52;
the, the lavishness and stinginess of, [320], 22;
the, man dear to, [289], 28;
the, mother of, [400], 8;
the patience of, [430], 21;
the, the path of, [402], 32;
the, to be reverenced, [183], 52;
the, under law, [406], 51;
the, voices from, [467], 9;
their life sad, [438], 52;
their silence, [556], 13;
their avatars, [489], 4;
unjustly blamed, [183], 55;
when they arrive, [543], 37;
whom they love, fate of, [363], 3
Goethe, and Schiller, compared, [532], 22;
Carlyle's defence of, [272], 31;
greatness of, Carlyle on, [311], 19;
how he is to be read, [506], 15;
inspiring idea of, [123], 14;
of his inherited nature, [517], 26;
on his studies, [166], 40;
sphere-harmony of, [454], 29;
treatment of, [349], 20
Goethe's, devotion to truth, [172], 39;
greatest gain, [420], 27;
motto, [326], 27;
refuge from world, [114], 32
Going, and sending, difference between, [42], 37;
back rather than going wrong, [29], 23;
slowly, going safely, [42], 36
Gold, a chimæra, [209], 47; [224], 10;
and dirt, [128], 38;
and silver, self-commended, [160], 1;
carrying only, [148], 49;
evil effect of, [162], 19;
lust of, evil of, [365], 45;
object of ambition, [109], 43;
power of, [9], 55;
power of, limited, [131], 28;
the power of, [13], 26; [288], 45;
to gild refined, [492], 39;
to have and to want, [493], 7
Golden, age, before us, [222], 2;
age, never such to itself, [203], 3;
age, not of gold, [222], 1;
age, the, Goethe on, [430], 32, 33;
key, that, [413], 11
Goldsmith, Johnson on, [305], 3; 318, 31;
inspiring idea of, [123], 14
Good, ability of doing, good, [25], 41;
absolute, unknown to us, [317], 11;
action, one, condoning power of, [111], 22;
alone capable of conservation, [313], 48;
and better, fate of, [30], 16;
all, basis of, [94], 19;
all, from heaven, [11], 56;
all, save God's, limited, [9], 34;
all things for, [174], 36;
and evil, difference between, [475], 7;
and evil, mixed, [406], 46;
and evil, only opposed, [95], 22;
and evil, unexpected, [137], 39;
and great, [94], 21;
and ill, how to treat, [200], 26;
angel, warning of, [29], 74;
antagonism to, a constant necessity, [477], 11;
association with the, [20], 32;
at last to all, [165], 16;
balance of, [67], 22;
beauty of, to be regarded, [71], 37;
bought with toil and tears, [458], 44;
calling, bad, [172], 32;
compared with evil, [228], 14;
deed, ennobling, [150], 2;
deeds, man's wealth hereafter, [91], 7;
deeds, noiselessness of, [30], 19;
do, a universal rule, [98], 29;
doing, sayings on, [70], 35-37, 40;
doing, teaching good, [150], 4;
doing, to the bad, [261], 26;
doing, without occasion of evil, difficulty, [201], 7;
done slowly, [232], 40;
due to exercitation, [283], 23;
easier to be, than to seem, [320], 36;
easy to be, with no hindrance, [86], 31;
ever near, [556], 27;
everywhere, [549], 29;
extreme of, to be avoided, [305], 46;
faith, importance of, [117], 36;
for evil, [340], 8;
for one, not for another, [31], 18;
fortune and good sense, rare, [274], 20;
fortune hard to bear, [179], 24;
fountain of, within, [253], 11;
from bad, discrimination of, rare, [328], 39;
from freely opened hand, [338], 10;
from God, [94], 33;
from seeming evil, [116], 19;
from within, [52], 20;
greatest, by whom wrought, [285], 22;
growth of, amidst evil, [161], 32;
habitual enjoyment of, [31], 19;
how to do most, [522], 35;
humour, a happiness, [207], 43;
impossible to wicked, [126], 22;
in the thinking, [315], 2;
in the vilest, [110], 27;
knowing, and not doing, [493], 19;
known or pursued, [253], 3;
lament over lost, [508], 10;
man, a, defined, [37], 50; [514], 37;
man, a, of talent, character of his work, [541], 38;
man always a tiro, [31], 62;
man, needs room, [60], 9;
man, rule of a, [1], 27;
man, satisfied from himself, [6], 48;
man, striving in the dark night, [6], 47;
man, the death of, [55], 44;
man, the loyal heart of, [66], 28;
man, the mark of, [206], 35;
man, unenvious, [151], 9;
man, unknown, work of, [463], 48;
men, all things becoming in, [328], 6;
men, duty of, when bad combine, [543], 8;
men, helplessness of, at present, [557], 38;
men, need of, [64], 28;
men, treatment of failings of, [426], 48;
men, value of, [464], 46;
misconstruing, a treble wrong, [494], 29;
name, carelessness of, [152], 44;
name, once tainted, [118], 50;
native and foreign, how to treat, [217], 17;
news, bringer of, [144], 10;
no, from what is not natural, [298], 16;
no pure, in man's offer, [302], 8;
not to be mistaken or censured, [333], 17;
nothing, by itself, [314], 45; [315], 1;
nothing so, as not to suffer from abuse, [317], 1;
of others, securing, [152], 47;
of others to be sought, [385], 1;
old rule, the, [430], 44;
on the highway, [94], 20;
only from self, [80], 10;
or evil as we take it, [190], 40;
our highest, [519], 37;

out of season, evil, [510], 40;
people, far apart, [116], 37;
promised, gain in being bereft of, [399], 23;
public and private, [359], 39;
qualities, unserviceable to one's self, [166], 45;
rarity of, [183], 12;
report not so easily spread as ill, [177], 25;
sense and expression, [87], 29;
sense and good nature, [129], 56;
sense, how we estimate, [317], 13;
sense, indignant, [193], 19;
sense, road to, [498], 29;
slow in developing, [314], 25;
source of, [126], 34;
thing, a disappointment at first, [302], 4;
that is done for us, [476], 39;
that is possible, [340], 8;
the, behaviour of, [184], 39;
the, easy to rule, [98], 43;
the end of all, [10], 54;
the genuinely, hard to know, [343], 40;
the goal of ill, [323], 3;
the internal source of all, [402], 29;
the, in man, [537], 22;
the only, that profits, [335], 10;
the public, to be sacrificed to, [124], 20;
the really, for ever, [298], 22;
the really, hard to attain, [67], 32;
the, sayings about, [430], 35-37, [39], 42, 45-47;
the sovereign, according to Bacon, [436], 41;
the, those who forward, to be honoured, [325], 12;
thing out of Nazareth, [35], 26;
things illusory, [154], 31;
things in threes, [9], 36;
those who do most, [482], 40;
though small, sufficient, [406], 14;
to be defined and held fast, [158], 24;
to be, and disagreeable, [490], 16;
to be done unconsciously, [242], 24;
to be left to heaven's disposal, [403], 2;
to be sought for, [99], 37;
to be willed, [519], 14;
to circulate, [29], 71;
to him who serves the state, [564], 25;
to men, condition of doing, [176], 10;
to whom good, [364], 52;
turn, a, merit of, [1], 14;
undying, [475], 25;
when it thrives best, [94], 18;
while asleep, [1], 3;
who best knows, [144], 11
Good-breeding, how attained, [216], 19;
never affectation, [489], 35;
power of, [130], 7;
want of, [452], 27
Good-fellowship, ground of, [73], 45
Good-for-nothing, a, [532], 21;
the, Goethe on, [430], 38
Goodness, a benefit to all, [304], 32;
a characteristic of, [515], 3;
and beauty, [433], 7;
an end, [135], 35;
a test of, [304], 7;
better than wealth, [31], 55;
Burns' criterion of, [541], 11;
departed, mourned over a possession, [539], 1;
first and second condition of, [428], 10;
God's, and His providence, [128], 6;
in one's friend's esteem, [565], 14;
in the eye of law, [97], 3;
love of, [151], 39;
not famous for, infamous, [175], 27;
often mere harmlessness, [268], 28;
pride of, [567], 21;
real, rare, [376], 52;
rewarded, [19], 64;
self-evolved, [303], 6;
tendency of, [514], 49;
test of, [276], 13;
the sin-bearing power of, [385], 24;
thoughts of, [484], 34;
timid shyness of, [105], 18;
unconcentrated, [465], 32;
united with greatness, [319], 36;
why snarled at, [274], 49;
without edge to it, [568], 20
Goods, common, none, [119], 36
Good-will, best gift, [279], 44;
everything in morals, [60], 9
Goose, a, that lays golden eggs, [91], 54;
that lays the golden egg, [430], 50
Gospel, contrasted with law, [438], 19;
in nature, as in Bible, [128], 2;
of Christ, all great and goodly things symbols of, [476], 2;
the, value of, [430], 51
Gospels, only edifying use of, [489], 30;
only two possible, [468], 34;
the, contradictions in, [538], 3
Gossip, a vice, [183], 39;
effect of, if circulated, [172], 12;
superseded by books, [139], 16;
the town's, insignificance of, [564], 23
Gossips, quarrelling of, [377], 23
Gothic cathedral, Emerson on, [430], 52
Gotten easily, gone easily, [38], 15
Govern, men, how to, [492], 47;
they that, the most, [479], 41
Governing, class, conduct at present of, [431], 1;
fundamental art of, [494], 4;
men, Danton on, [29], 11;
powers, the only, [335], 16;
man's prerogative, [373], 7
Government, a, how to judge of, [526], 38;
a lazy, Butler on, [316], 48;
a merely business and bread-protecting, [6], 60;
as a science, Rousseau on, [227], 33;
best, defined, [277], 11;
by wisest our goal, [313], 22;
contract of, dissolved by despotism, [233], 10;
democratic, among whom possible and impossible, [378], 46;
despotic, [361], 44;
difficulty in, [550], 46;
essence of, among good men, [425], 32;
forms of, futility of, [277], 29;
forms of, how determined, [429], 14;
good, beginning of, [9], 33;
good, condition of, [396], 34;
in what it resides, [301], 35;
never originative, [90], 10;
no dissension to hinder, [317], 35;
not to waver, [6], 61;
of England, [431], 3;
of men, only by serving them, [330], 14;
of world, [464], 5, 35, 41;
officers of, [131], 19;
overthrowing and creating, two different things, [566], 37;
parliamentary, defined, [341], 45;
qualification for, [474], 8;
real, our need, [312], 44;
representative, defined, [233], 31;
representative of order; [250], 48;
republican, Tacitus on, [371], 22;
the miracle in, [315], 24; the best, [65], 7; [109], 40; [417], 39;
the burden of, Cromwell on, [169], 25;
the first object of, [359], 34;
the only safe, [302], 10;
to be in advance, [431], 2;
where men are selfish, [477], 42;
wisdom that suffices for, [15], 47;
without self-government, [2], 24
Governments, a duty of all, [549], 16;
all, a compact with devil, [9], 37;
bureaucratic, the fatal disease of, [423], 43;
cause of decay of, [224], 34;
free, tyrannies of, [114], 28;
how far good, [9], 31;
monstrous absurdity in modern, [475], 45;
secret of success in, [216], 14
Governors, our, [522], 7;
the life of all, [72], 17
Grace, a day of, [4], 1;
contrasted with nature, [290], 34; [291], 38;
divine, power of, [145], 5;
essential, [305], 34;
fascination of, [63], 48;
given, as needed, [60], 15;
helpless by itself, [301], 11;
in contrast with gifts, [122], 36;
in movement, [182], 5;
melancholy, [81], 4;
power of, [66], 10;
purpose of, [240], 54;
source of, [319], 4;
stronger than nature, [132], 17;
the soul of complexion, [433], 7;
to be seized at once, [60], 15;
to whom given, [366], 19
Graceful, the, defined, [540], 43
Gracefulness, from one's self, [315], 3
Graces, effect of teaching of, [360], 22;
the, and Venus, [512], 31
Grain, value of one, [332], 28
Grammar, above kings, [225], 33;
lordship claimed over, [78], 12
Grammarians, and troubles of world, [227], 10;
not subject to Cæsar, [34], 35
Grandeur, a mark of, [511], 41;
and comfort, incompatible, [565], 27;
to be kept ever before us, [529], 6;
to be shunned, [117], 10
Granite, block of, as an obstacle and stepping-stone, [418], 39;
from, to immortality of the soul, [198], 45
Grapes, where sweetest, [66], 22
Grasp, a hearty, good, [167], 41
Grasping, at too much, [42], 33; [364], 51
Grass, and flowers, [529], 26;
ilka blade of, [181], 32
Gratification, unbridled, evil of, [245], 44
Gratitude, a burden, [227], 27;
and love incompatible, [253], 43;
commended, [122], 15;
less potent than fear, [103], 36;
of small commercial value, [440], 22;
protestations of, [528], 8;
the root of, [340], 15
Grave, an early, [346], 16;
a lonely, sigh for, [312], 12;
as bed of rest, Carlyle in view of the, [323], 2;
from, to gay, [139], 35;
the, honours at, [387], 9;
the, our meeting-place of rest, [564], 33;
voices from the, [274], 39;
wicked and weary in, [477], 30
Graves of the hamlet, [27], 52
Gravity, from thought and from dulness, [469], 24;
less wise than it looks, [244], 38;
too much, shallowness of, [497], 37
Gray hairs, Jean Paul on, [133], 3
Great, and good, [94], 21;
and little, on Fortune's wheel, [238], 24;
becoming, and being born, [203], 29;
deeds, by whom done, [199], 31;
folk, secrets of, like wild beasts in cages, [453], 3;
from smallest, [23], 39;
master, how great, [7], 2;
mind, character of labours of, [91], 17;
name, hard to earn, [180], 24;
no, or small, to the soul, [472], 49;
sacrifices to make one, [538], 9;
thing, always done easily, [171], 7;
thing, how and by whom done, [7], 8;
thing, no, without meaning, [535], 15;
wax, by others waning, [168], 30;
what is, effect of, on cultivation, [540], 45;
why such, [238], 27
Great man, a, and his reputation, [567], 38;
ability to perceive, [208], 3;
a, in midst of the crowd, [201], 24;
according to Emerson, [143], 126;
and his age, [431], 23, 24;
and his descent, [87], 42;
and his talk, [7], 9;
and human nature, [431], 25;
a subject only for one as great, [325], 1;
characteristic of, [302], 16; [307], 32;
first test of, [428], 39;
heavenward path of, [434], 19;
his love of justice, [151], 3;
house of, flagstone at, [304], 4;
Landor's test of, [6], 60;
living for high ends, [6], 70;
mark of, [206], 26;
no, dies a natural death, [217], 8;
no, without inspiration, [295], 27;
quotes bravely, [7], 1;
secret of, anticipated, [292], 17;
speaking always or rarely, [469], 20;
the faults of, [427], 24;
unique, [91], 16;
vacancy he leaves behind, [544], 32;
who entitled to praise, [333], 34
Great men, age of, gone, [415], 40;
and little, difference between, [423], 34;
and world, [464], 6; 465, [2], 5;
characteristics of, [198], 2; [306], 50; [431], 26;
devotion to, [387], 31;
difficulty of believing in, [496], 16;
effect of evil fortune on, [208], 1;
errors of, [301], 39;
fame of, to what due, [225], 15;
great mountains, [285], 2;
how linked to their age, [64], 31;
how we estimate, [523], 41;
importance of, [559], 36;
late appreciation of, [206], 10;
men of faith, [381], 44;
mission of, [212], 1;
mutual isolation of, [63], 14;
necessary, [398], 28;
never limit themselves, [238], 25;
of different moulds, [290], 42;
perverse worship of, [162], 21;
popular, [238], 26;
seldom scholars, [465], 24;
tender-heartedness of, [15], 42;
treatment of, and fate, [209], 49;
unbelief in, as a sign, [307], 5;
unconscious, [285], 22;
when the lion roars, [394], 20
Great souls, effect of gold on, [128], 39;
effect of tranquillity of, [316], 32;
in collision, [73], 36;
not common, [308], 12;
sign of, [205], 49;
still exist, [67], 20;
talk of, [259], 40;
the composure of, disconcerting, [376], 54;
the fate of, [492], 3;
virtue of, [460], 39
Great, the, an unhappiness of, [205], 5;
connection between, and the little, [281], 4;
dependence of, [431], 10;
dependence on, [163], 4;
favourites of, [166], 5;
friendship with, [74], 1;
hard to win, [314], 26;
intimacy with, without servility, [149], 37;
neighbourhood of, dangerous, [228], 13;
only, [144], 51; [153], 27;
on the wave of humanity, [534], 7;
pride of, how to humble, [514], 13;
ruled rather than ruling, [322], 28;
truly, according to à Kempis, [143], 56
Great things, all from above, [306], 45;
by whom alone producible, [303], 19;
by whom done, [38], 38;
how to achieve, [353], 43;
made up of littles, [251], 13, 14;
not to be sought, [385], 7;
the element of all, [391], 39
Greatest, in these times, [463], 27;
man, according to Ward Beecher, [143], 51;
man, the, [144], 51;
men, world's treatment of its, [314], 34;
the, the briefest, [432], 12;
unknown, [338], 7
Greatness, aggregate of minuteness, [135], 38;
and prudence, contrary counsels of, [359], 18;
an essential attribute of, [303], 42;
Christian, condition of, [554], 41;
condition of attaining, [467], 40;
despised, mark of greatness, [259], 22;
essence of, [425], 40;
first step to, [428], 38;
growth and decay of, [102], 19;
how attained, [434], 25; [482], 39;
in need of defence, [22], 27;
in one's self commended, [28], 39;
insecurity of, [23], 12;
man's, proof of, [9], 57;
men capable of, [311], 22;
no, without inspiration, [477], 20;
not to be aimed at, [385], 3;
of man, how to comprehend, [200], 21;
our relation to, [524], 39;
penalty of, [490], 17;
potentiality of, [167], 4;
qualifications for, [490], 18;
root of, [278], 21;
self-evolved, [303], 6;
solitary, [75], 29;
tendency of, to calm, [14], 34;
the condition of all, [152], 39;
true, mark of, [207], 16; [500], 4;
various ways to, [397], 42;
whom to thank for, [175], 30
Greece, and the world, [556], 6;
Byron of, [229], 25;
but living Greece, no more, [405], 51;
her conquest, [131], 47;
nothing without freedom, [326], 25;
seven wise men of, ground of their fame, [453], 16
Greed, craving of, [83], 12;
how to overcome, [240], 16;
insatiableness of, [122], 33
Greeks, and Romans, the only ancients that continue young, [63], 47;
sayings about, [432], 44-46;
their dream of life, [508], 32
Green spot, our final inheritance, [41], 53
Greeting, the stranger's, to be returned, [455], 22;
to be with noble feeling, [221], 28
Gregory VII. on his death-bed, [68], 23
Grief, and excess of it, [398], 13;
after gladness, [98], 1;
and its shadows, [75], 24;
a symbol of Christianity, [524], 42;
bitter and calm, [524], 46;
capable of counsel, [413], 14;
effect of time on, [66], 7;
effect of imparting, [473], 24;
expression of, [97], 57;
great, effect on mind of, [133], 32;
how to conquer, [142], 17;
hard to master a, [93], 9;
limited, [70], 47;

limit of, [540], 7;
love plus grief, [109], 46;
man's, [266], 33;
moderate and immoderate, [281], 20;
pleasure of, [379], 14;
sayings about, [432], 48, 49;
shallow, [446], 22;
softened with time, [473], 6;
tamed with time and thinking, [486], 27;
that can be advised, [244], 35;
to be private, [189], 19;
unedifying, [166], 16;
unseen, sincere, [181], 51;
wail of, [461], 13
Griefs, ended with remedies, [545], 12;
from evils that have not happened, [398], 31;
great, dumb, [166], 15;
great, effect of, on less, [133], 33;
never stated too lightly, [303], 33;
when fresh, not to be dispelled, [550], 15
Grievances, old, not to be repeated, [296], 57
Grin, power of a merry, [36], 14
Groove, moving in the same, [315], 50
Grose, Captain, Burns on, [174], 49
Grotesques, no, in nature, [467], 31
Grow, ceasing to, [149], 41
Growth, contrasted with decay, [48], 9;
fast and slow, [334], 19
Growths, natural, pleasing, [191], 4
Grub and butterfly, [471], 22
Grumbler, wise, a benefactor, [462], 33
Grumblers, benefactors, [417], 29
Grumbling, elevating power of, [417], 29;
essential to progress, [566], 42;
evil effect of, [144], 41;
philosophy of, [447], 36;
room for, [205], 40;
too much, [492], 5
Guard, who keeps no, on himself, [552], 3
Guesses, Goethe on, [171], 30
Guest, a, rank of, [549], 37;
a welcome, [146], 54
Guests, how viewed, [428], 12;
unbidden, [505], 46
Guide, a true, [145], 36
Guiding-star everywhere, [190], 43
Guilt, chief earthly ill, [247], 49;
communion in, levelling, [99], 3;
confession of, [103], 6;
conviction of, better than severity of punishment, [406], 19;
counsels of, infatuated, [320], 9;
danger of first step in, [241], 49;
dependent on station, [327], 43;
diversely rewarded, [182], 6;
greatest incitement to, [271], 18;
hard not to betray, [155], 35;
indelible, [10], 46;
misery of, [321], 25;
sure to be punished, [178], 48;
yoked to misery, [126], 13
Guilty, evil of sparing, [279], 29;
heart, greatest terror to, [475], 39;
the, what is due to, [496], 8
Guinea, power of, [429], 13
Gullibility, and quackery, [361], 4;
man's, not his worst blessing, [357], 34
Gunpowder, genuine use of, [430], 1
H
Habit, bad, when to overcome, [261], 35;
effect of, [366], 44;
force of, [46], 59, 60;
importance of, in youth, [4], 10;
only motive, [269], 14;
power of, [111], 33; [259], 11; [475], 36;
the chains of, [419], 36;
use doth breed, [162], 42
Habits, bad, effect of, [292], 16;
how formed, [1], 24;
ill, grow apace, [181], 44;
rule in formation of, [82], 18
Hades, the descent to, easy, [98], 48
Haggis, a, charging downhill, [89], 18;
Burns to a, [99], 36
Hair, a, casts a shadow, [89], 19
Hair-splitting, [142], 18
Half and whole compared, [399], 22
Half-man, a, [145], 7
Hallow'd spot, a, why crave, [555], 24
Halves, all things, [75], 25
Hame, best, [76], 10
Hamlet, Shakespeare's, how composed, [388], 12
Hammer, better, than anvil, [181], 5
Hand, a cold, [216], 53;
a hard, [472], 10;
and its own work, [486], 3;
disfigured by toil, [268], 23;
from, to mouth, [116], 6;
Napoleon's, connected with his head, [287], 48;
shakes of, characteristic, [475], 32;
the instrument of instruments, [264], 15;
the, of toil, Carlyle on, [512], 10;
the touch of a vanished, [33], 20;
to be educated, [95], 20
Handicraft, good, foundation of, [128], 22
Hands, before knives, [106], 35;
clean, with gloves on, [394], 33;
folding and opening, [213], 11;
power of, [535], 17;
work of the, [519], 23
Handsome figure, effect of, [283], 50
Hanging, as a correction, [523], 29
Hannibal, Maherbal to, [514], 22
Happiest, man, the, [150], 42; [443], 47; [551], 41;
man, according to Goethe, [143], 27;
men, the, [448], 5;
of men, George Sand on, [433], 8
Happiness, a, better than, [495], 38;
a condition of, [12], 6; [61], 17; [488], 20;
a rare, [368], 5;
always exaggerated, [330], 5;
and attainment of a wish, [332], 41;
and misery, kinship of, at the root, [540], 23;
and misery, contrasted, [353], 8;
Aristotle on, [304], 34;
as a proportionate quantity, [273], 43;
a, that never leaves us, [171], 25;
at present, or nowhere, [175], 39;
Burns' ideal of, [271], 27;
but one solid basis of, [471], 18;
centered in heart, [172], 22;
claim to, mischief of, [206], 44;
condition of,81, 44;
confined to no spot, [107], 13;
constancy in, [479], 18;
contrasted with sorrow, [476], 38;
determining element of, [313], 24;
dependent on renouncing the world, [217], 6;
dependent on restraint, [250], 13;
destroyed by envious fortune, [22], 34;
discovery of a new, [203], 7;
domestic, [70], 54, 55;
earthly, experience of, [170], 1;
earthly, in dreams, [319], 26;
essence of, [541], 18;
ever near, [335], 3;
from change, illusory, [268], 55;
from moderation, [23], 48;
greatest, in existence, [494], 13;
health, [536], 17;
how to obtain, [373], 47;
how to weigh, [53], 41;
how we lose, [527], 22;
imaginary, [521], 43;
in anticipation, [93], 46;
independent of prosperity and adversity, [286], 21;
independent of wealth and greatness, [297], 46;
in feeling one with the whole, [173], 2;
in sufficiency for self, [77], 34;
in the heart, [185], 52;
in what to be sought, [12], 25;
love of, higher in man than, [471], 33;
made dependent on chance, [200], 4;
main thing for, [457], 22;
matrimonial, condition of, [353], 46;
matter of feeling, [180], 1;
meaning of, [490], 21;
negatively defined, [492], 28;
never perfect, [86], 29; [210], 21;
no, without a friend, [289], 5;
no, without love, [364], 4;
not dependent on congruity of opinion, [331], 42;
not promoted by argument, [173], 38;
not the purpose of life, [490], 20;
not to be boasted of, [333], 11;
of others, hard to taste, [381], 39;
offered to all, [290], 4;
one good way to, [332], 28;
one's, not to be thought of, [329], 28;
only personated, [521], 21;
or unhappiness, what determines, [533], 34;
our desire for, [530], 5;
power of, to swell heart, [326], 8;
purpose of nature, [516], 52;
pursuit of, [524], 16;
rather than full purse, [81], 15;
real, cheap enough, [369], 13;
real, defined, [459], 35;
Ruskin's definition of true, [267], 2;
sayings about, [232], 43-50; [433], 9-12;
seat of, [154], 7;
secret of, [452], 41;
seekers for more than, [483], 18;
seen through another's eyes, [160], 52;
sinful and natural, [478], 38;
solid, in the heart, [174], 3;
source of, [202], 1;
the basis of, [338], 12, 13; [349], 33;
the highest, [434], 41;
the one condition of, [87], 12;
the only, worth while, [446], 7;
the principle of, [366], 21;
to be deserved, [175], 34;
to be found at home, [567], 32;
to fill the hour, [492], 26;
to attain, [532], 19;
true, [87], 2;
two foes of, [459], 25;
unexpected, [132], 18;
untasted, [60], 13;
utmost possible, [493], 12;
what it consists in, [12], 62;
what most contributes to, [533], 32;
within narrow bounds, [541], 13;
without self-control, [192], 24
Happy, apology for being, [487], 15;
day, a, foretold, [433], 14;
days, a succession of, hard to bear, [298], 18;
days bygone, misery of recalling, [295], 44;
man, insensible to lapse of time, [58], 17;
man, the, [433], 14, 15;
man, the only, [142], 3;
presence of, to wretched, [449], 8
Hard times not rare, [35], 2
Hardened, the, with time, [124], 38
Hard-heartedness, who prone to, [238], 31
Hardships, our own and others', [433], 18;
stimulating effect of, [563], 35
Harm, no, but from one's self, [295], 11; [314], 6
Harmony, as accepted by the crowd and the musician, [445], 7;
hard to restore, [67], 35;
in which things are reconciled, Gœthe on, [285], 26;
inner, everything, [151], 16;
the condition of, [511], 39
Harness, die with, on back, [31], 3;
necessary for a man, [12], 44
Harper, a, on one string, [376], 37
Haste, and prudence incompatible, [313], 44;
but not hurry, [484], 16;
evil of, [133], 34;
evil of an excess of, [481], 1;
raw, [75], 37;
unreasonable, evil of, [508], 21;
vulgar, [315], 27
Hat, man in pursuit of his, [469], 5
Hate, a grief, [473], 5;
deadliest, from deepest desire, [116], 24;
drop of, in cup of joy, [79], 37;
effect of one shriek of, [344], 4;
that blossomed into charity, [491], 41
Hater, a good, [167], 37
Hatred, a form of love, [436], 29;
alien to a true man, [22], 5;
avowed, [196], 40;
contrasted with pity, [348], 52;
deprecated, [71], 44;
effect of, [381], 31;
effect of, on worth of a man, [141], 3;
effect of one drop of, [332], 10;
effect of time on, [487], 18;
grafted on extinct friendship, [433], 21;
greatest, characterised, [432], 15;
how provoked, [105], 15;
how to overcome, [117], 14;
in life alone, [319], 6;
our, reason and effect of, [524], 18;
poisoning power of, [332], 10;
the bitterest, [2], 53;
too keen, effect of, [545], 2;
unproductive of good, [30], 5
Haughtiness from birth, [398], 33; from work, [206], 40
Havelock's fidelity to principle, [167], 22
Having, dependent on using, [122], 9
Hazard, motive for, [276], 37;
of the die, [167], 11
Head, a great, the function of, [184], 27;
a witless, [25], 4;
and heart, difficult to unite, [398], 35;
big, witless, [1], 28;
contrasted with heart, [433], 24;
empty, conceited, [58], 39;
figure, mere figurehead, [198], 37;
hoary, to be honoured, [377], 30;
inferior to heart, [433], 25, 30;
one good, value of, [332], 24;
stupid, with good heart, [87], 40;
that wears a crown, [140], 22;
the hoary, [435], 23;
to be held up, [158], 25;
without moral sentiments, [433], 23
Headache, effect of a, [390], 3
Heads, grey, [380], 29;
in hearts, [398], 35;
little and long, [467], 6;
may differ when hearts don't, [153], 48
Healing, in health, [184], 14;
by medicine, lance, or fire, [326], 41
Health, a recipe for, [217], 27;
a sign of, [453], 32;
and exercise of, [534], 12;
and sickness, rules for, [187], 20;
before holiness, [452], 9;
better in Nature's hand than doctor's, [29], 50;
chief condition of, [224], 30;
compared with money, [282], 40;
dependence of, on cheerfulness, [40], 48;
from labour, [387], 13;
from temperance, [260], 36;
good, wealth, [41], 30;
how to promote, [81], 42;
importance of, [245], 32;
life, [309], 38;
necessary for holiness, [12], 22;
of citizen, bodily and spiritual,
concern of all governments, [549], 16;
sacrifice of, [432], 31;
secret of, [2], 47;
sign of, [433], 27;
source of, [116], 12;
text for a sermon on, [533], 10;
the flower of, [40], 51;
the best preservative of, [417], 55;
the sphere melody, [435], 3;
the use of, [537], 20;
the value of, [123], 13; [428], 43;
true wealth, [492], 35
Healthy, man, and the seasons, [433], 28;
the, sweet-tempered, [9], 42
Hear, who will not, [532], 29
Hearing, and obeying God's word, merit of, [30], 46;
and seeing, [521], 32;
before speaking, [83], 42;
man, compared with the speaking, [140], 19;
mere, and learning, [525], 12;
not always believing, [64], 1;
no, without understanding, [85], 39;
not followed by faith, [32], 15;
rather than sacrifice, [217], 33;
value of, [116], 7
Hearsay, as a basis of communion, [472], 16
Heart, a bleeding, only healer of, [125], 11;
a child's, without sorrow, [165], 35;
a great, qualities of, [477], 23;
a heavy, effect of beauty or music on, [545], 36;
a man's, his honour, [54], 4;
a merry, [147], 15;
a noble, an open hand, [167], 18;
a noble, immovable, [48], 6;
a poor, and a rich purse, [198], 39;
a product of, test of, [565], 22;
a pure, to be prayed for, [135], 18;
a saddened, inconsolable by words, [54], 27;
a, untainted, [538], 37;
an empty, [435], 37;
an oracle of fate, [62], 3;
an ungrateful, no melting, [107], 46;
and its divine motions, [527], 19;
and mind, methods of, different, [22], 45;
and the Muses and gods, [548], 33;
as an oracle, [64], 29;
as sound as a bell, [142], 50;
carrying, on tongue, [149], 40;
compared to ocean, [287], 51;
contracting power of, [556], 12;
contrasted with head, [433], 24;
doors of, shut, [382], 9;
effect of fire in, [106], 40;
effect of purification of, [541], 15;
endowments of, [392], 49;
everything, [279], 34;
female, like new indiarubber shoe, [427], 33;
fountain of life, [217], 34;
free and fetterless, [326], 13;
germs of all things in, [430], 2;
gifts of, [122], 39;
glowing, power of, [297], 26;
God's voice in, [458], 43;
good, value of, [549], 39;
great, the function of, [184], 27;
hardening of, measure of, [190], 15;
higher, the warmer, [250], 5;
human, a tablet on which all things are writ, [292], 48;
honest, free frae guile, [435], 26;
human, sayings about, [435], 42-44;
in prosperity and adversity, [401], 24;
its history, [222], 13;
its place of rest, [103], 62;

its romance, [222], 13;
its yearnings, [536], 46;
known only to God, [154], 21;
light, vitality of, [8], 31;
less inflexible than head, [233], 4;
life of, [75], 26;
like a millstone, [54], 3;
like the sea, [272], 24;
literature of the, [262], 24;
loving, willing, [103], 43;
makes us right or wrong, [289], 12;
man's, insatiable, [266], 35;
meditative, [441], 43;
must have an object to rest on, [123], 12;
my, leaps up, [287], 49;
native soil of thoughts, [54], 36;
noble, noblest task of, [122], 32;
no traitor, [80], 17;
not to be controlled, [315], 8;
not to be dictated to, [218], 9;
not to be too much trusted, [528], 41;
not to cling too much to things, [297], 52;
open not, to every one, [232], 24;
place of, [549], 4;
product of, its quality, [540], 28;
pure, strength of, [288], 24;
reflective of world, [75], 8;
sayings about the, [433], 30-46; [434], 1-13;
secrets of, how revealed, [222], 7;
sensitive, an unhappy possession, [385], 23;
simplicity of, healing and cementing, [121], 44;
stout in, never God-forsaken, [131], 5;
sincere and tranquil, characteristic of, [545], 38;
sovereign over head, [433], 25;
standard of worth, [271], 42;
sunny spots in, without light, [126], 6;
teaching of, compared with reason, [370], 3;
thankful, prayer for, [321], 17;
the, allurements that draw, [68], 3;
that has gone through no sorrow, [452], 1;
the great in, [144], 51;
the, has its own religion, [91], 3;
the, impulse of, [267], 3;
the, that is most like God, [484], 8;
the, speech of, [556], 1;
the true sun-flower, [268], 59;
true as steel, [566], 3;
true greatness of, [500], 30;
to keep up, difficult, [208], 14;
uneasy, effect of, on our view of things, [320], 32;
unpurified by woe, [59], 52;
virtues of, underrated, [276], 21;
wear my, upon my sleeve, [169], 17;
what comes from the, test of, [323], 7;
what goes to, [534], 36;
when at peace, [53], 27;
when it leads the way, [548], 32;
who has most, [150], 37;
who touches our, as with a live coal, [142], 48;
with Divine love in it, [383], 45;
without error rare, [106], 17;
wrinkles of, [465], 41;
wrong, effect of, on head, [176], 19
Hearth, a, of one's own, value of, [54], 31; [77], 45
Heart's bitterness, control, [30], 5
Hearts, bad, effect of gold on, [128], 39;
everywhere the same, [274], 24;
fellowship with, to be cultivated, [549], 12;
few, rightly affected to heaven, [154], 4;
full of grief, masked, [117], 24;
great, like great mountains, [252], 29;
hard, how to win, [396], 45;
highest, temper of, [207], 1;
how to win, [70], 25;
in heads, [398], 35;
kind, value of, [163], 5;
kind, more than coronets, [218], 34;
loving, parted, sorrows of, [546], 27;
muffled drums, [18], 35;
not to be alienated, but united, [277], 25;
of different moulds, [92], 19;
property of, inalienable, [538], 41;
reasons of, [233], 3;
toying with, [496], 29
Heaven, a plain road to, [35], 32;
ascent to, [485], 36;
at once far and near, [314], 46;
blue of, and the cloud, [418], 44;
communion with, condition of, [217], 31;
compensation from, [60], 16;
conversing with, as a task, [488], 3;
demand of, [483], 24;
door of, lowly, [154], 19, 23;
everywhere overhead, [473], 43;
face to face in, [203], 19;
fire of, source of, [458], 41;
gates of, battered by prayers, [25], 64;
going to, alone, [207], 13;
going to, by force of habit, [398], 37;
help of, [176], 12;
has its thorns, [298], 12;
how to purchase, [360], 5;
how to respond to, [123], 6;
impenetrable to prayer, [118], 10;
in a dewdrop, [225], 32;
in earth, [76], 6;
in proportion to earth, [371], 39;
life of, from soil of earth, [109], 37;
near us, [154], 40;
nearness of, [116], 3;
nothing true but, [482], 19;
old and new road to, [479], 9;
once in, better than often at the door, [28], 44;
only in the eye, [27], 13;
road to, [515], 22;
still open, as of old, [403], 6;
teachings of, [456], 43;
the ladder of, [458], 48;
the miles to, [99], 32;
the, of the soul, [545], 47;
the question as regards, [450], 29;
the way to, [392], 32;
treasures of, [458], 20;
unthinkable, [33], 39;
way to, [461], 29;
when deaf, [103], 49;
who excluded from, [304], 1;
worth much, [184], 46
Heavenly, and earthly counterparts, [475], 43;
powers, sovereign ways of, [434], 15;
powers, who knows not, [532], 33;
things, love of, [198], 7
Heaven's, appointments to be accepted, [526], 24;
judgment, just, [488], 29
Heavens, a way through, remains, [375], 4;
not to be scaled, [127], 28;
sayings about the, [434], 16-18;
the silent, [453], 38
Heavenward progress, our, [338], 15
Heaviness that's gone to be forgotten, [243], 40
Hector, fame of, and the fall of Troy, [154], 27;
love of, [154], 28;
sad look of, [154], 38
Hegel on Christianity, [42], 54
Height, and depth, correlative, [560], 10;
how to attain a, [526], 33;
the, and the steps to it, [434], 23
Heights, other, ahead, [336], 40
Heir, an, weeping of, [139], 5
Helicon, rills from, [116], 8;
the fountain of, [429], 20
Hell, a fierce, [472], 38;
better to reign in, [29], 51;
feeling, [27], 13;
for the inquisitive, [51], 41;
getting to, hard work, [186], 5;
proof of existence of, [191], 24;
scroll over gate of, [230], 20;
the fear o', [427], 25;
the, of these days, [434], 26;
which way I fly, [550], 9
Hellas made strange by time, [316], 53
Help, before preaching, [144], 31;
man's, to man, [494], 28;
mutual, importance of, [450], 32;
no effectual, from another, [306], 21;
no help, [150], 7;
not at needful moment, [551], 11;
only in union, [15], 39;
only source of, [304], 36;
our power of, small, [488], 17;
slow, [394], 14;
spontaneous, in need, [30], 27;
the rule of, [158], 8;
the, to be given, [368], 44;
who alone gives, [334], 53;
worthlessness of, Goethe on, [169], 23
Helper, a willing, does not wait, [83], 59
Helpers in distress, [514], 15
Helpful, the only permanently, [315], 33
Helpfulness, man's, [193], 50
Helps, as a thinker, [453], 7
Henry IV. of France, wish of, [211], 23;
to his soldiers at Ivry, [397], 8
Heraldic arms, the noblest, [172], 23
Heraldry, in what contained, [461], 12
Hercules and his work, [555], 8
Here, and now, as interests, [524], 41;
or nowhere, our aim, [155], 48
Hereafter, witness to a, [488], 49
Heredity, in families, [419], 33;
no escape from law of, [162], 25
Heresies, in Church, root of, [452], 8
Hermits, a virtue in, [199], 24
Hero, a bore at last, [91], 23;
all that is necessary to make, [477], 17;
and his valet, [205], 44;
death of, [395], 25;
desire of, to meet hero, [86], 11;
dust in the balance, [190], 13;
every, property of, [206], 42;
faith essential to, [202], 35;
glory of, [205], 35;
merit of biographer of a, [142], 48;
mock, under misfortune, [260], 1;
no, without enemies, [520], 32;
no, without humanity, [519], 35;
none a, to his valet, [303], 49;
proof of a, [538], 21;
source of his inspiration, [569], 39;
such only in heroic world, [134], 22;
the first characteristic of, [392], 27
Hero-arm without hero-eye, [534], 19
Heroes, and poets, akin, [351], 35;
as dead and as alive, [488], 47;
effect of history on, [228], 15;
legacy of, [438], 34;
literary, Johnson on, [434], 29;
many, too long lived, [44], 36;
moral, in the field, and heroines, [349], 9;
without poet, [517], 7
Heroic, act, a triumph at last, [91], 24;
deeds, the greatest, [432], 32;
heart, of the first times, [434], 30;
when mask drops, [234], 1
Heroine, and hero, [302], 28
Heroism, in domestic life, [465], 23;
the essence of, [386], 14;
true, [500], 5
Hero-worship, defect in our, accounted for, [175], 40;
our, effect on us of, [338], 14;
the corner-stone of society, [190], 34
Hid, what cannot be, disclosing, [325], 32
Hierograms, sacred, [99], 17
High, and low, independent of place, [315], 4;
and low, pleasures of, contrasted, [238], 29;
apprehension of the, rare, [419], 26;
looks and mean thoughts, [274], 42;
man, the, a failure, [482], 4;
place, men in, thrice servants, [275], 18;
rank not same as discernment, [233], 34;
station, effect of, [238], 22;
the, low origin of, [23], 46;
things, effect of converse with, [328], 26;
things, exposure of, to danger, [379], 31;
things, mind not, [279], 35
Higher, a, acknowledgment of, necessary to man, [61], 10;
reverence for a, [340], 45
Highest, attainable by the lowest, [116], 27;
not to be spoken of in words, [188], 27;
the, exemplar of each, [28], 12;
the, in God's esteem, [434], 43;
the, to be loved, [527], 17;
the, to be reverenced, [375], 29;
things, above control, [189], 26
Highway, not to be deserted, [71], 46;
sowing in, [148], 21
Highways, public, to be kept clear, [450], 8
Hill, going down, [171], 31
Hills, seen far off, [31], 4;
steep, climbing, [244], 12
Hindus, the, vow of, [64], 34
Hint, enough for the wise, [235], 3
Hip, catch one upon, [172], 33
Historian, a, a species of prophet, [435], 15
Historical genius, the true, [458], 46
History, a great, an epical, [287], 32;
a satire on humanity, [121], 54;
all, a Bible, [9], 44;
always a pleasure, [157], 20;
and biography, identical, [476], 24;
and conscience, [204], 5;
effect on, of heroes, [228], 15;
God in, [150], 23;
how to read, [455], 40;
interest of, [462], 9;
laws of, Cicero's, [366], 29;
man's, summarised, [266], 37;
of every man, [435], 18;
our best, [337], 14;
our, Cromwell on, [534], 3;
problems of, confronted, [207], 33;
study of, profitlessness of, for self-culture, [304], 31;
temporal, meaning of, [455], 1;
the best benefit from, [53], 30;
the facts of, [457], 33;
the only poetry, [446], 12;
the only true, [30], 22;
the two pinions of, [402], 37;
the verdict of, when possible, [207], 27;
Voltaire's view of, [223], 19;
what constitutes, [335], 42
Hoard, and heart, [338], 17;
to be moderate, [340], 10
Hoarding, and enjoying, [539], 45;
forfeiting life, [144], 53
Hobbes' thesis, [157], 47
Hobby-horses, expensiveness of, [402], 31
Holdfast, the only dog, [110], 29
Hole, a, in a' your coats, [174], 49
Holiness, different effects of, and liberty, [245], 38;
no, without health, [12], 22
Holy, give not, to dogs, [123], 21;
prior to unholy, [94], 22
Holy Land, the, [482], 32
Home, a golden milestone, [75], 16;
a good, man unworthy of, [304], 1;
a man's starting-point, [163], 8;
a necessity, [105], 5;
a palace, [36], 32;
a source of joy, [174], 3;
being far from, [102], 9;
good of, [12], 4;
happy at, advice to, [71], 1;
how made attractive, [165], 30;
how regarded in England, [82], 44;
no longer cared for, a bad sign, [543], 5;
no place like, [279], 2;
not here, [414], 16;
of one's own, and a good wife, value of, [78], 48;
place of peace, [325], 48;
returning under good omens, [300], 13;
sacredness of, [474], 18;
safest refuge, [71], 11;
staying at, commended, [533], 1;
the dream of, [551], 30;
value of, enhanced by travel, [95], 1;
where a true woman is, [549], 11
Home-life, backbone of a nation, [305], 26
Homer, art of, [534], 10; Carlyle on Iliad of, [158], 37; [436], 17;
dead, rivalry for, [387], 49, 50;
ground of our interest in, [70], 32;
nods, [8], 38;
rank as poet, [503], 48;
the praise of, [368], 46
Homers, how made great, [489], 1
Homes, how, thrive, [45], 29;
why unhappy, [275], 2
Honest, heart, disadvantage of, [445], 43;
I dare to be, [165], 38;
man, an, [15], 17;
man, Burns on, [16], 65;
man, the, [435], 27, 28;
man, unaffected, [443], 16;
people, chief misfortune of, [333], 25;
to be as this world goes, [490], 22
Honesty, a powerful fetter, [21], 44;
a true, single-hearted, [536], 32;
as a legacy, [302], 44;
as policy, [35], 9;
before riches, [521], 17;
cheaper than hypocrisy,533, 15;
contrasted with knavery, [219], 42, 43, 47;
if pawned, never redeemed, [229], 29;
indispensableness of, [304], 24;
lasts longest, [78], 25;
not safe, [409], 27;
often goaded to ruin, [4], 47;
out of world of knaves, how, [123], 41;
rare, [25], 38;
recommends itself, [106], 31;
strong in, [474], 33;
the importance of, [428], 38;
the value of, [370], 48;
to be practised, [504], 15;
who pauses in, [441], 19
Honey, a waste of, [200], 41;
who would gather, [152], 52
Honey-bees, so work the, [395], 36
Honour, acme of, [460], 18;
and duty, the post of, [541], 19;
and glory, [463], 11;
an earnest of more, [223], 31;
an upholding power, [415], 12;
as reward, [159], 46, 47;
before fear of death, [173], 7;
before
life, [406], 38;
bound by, [170], 13;
call of, to be followed, [172], 25;
effect of, on arts, [159], 49; I
love the name of, [167], 47;
in the meanest habit, [20], 53;
in what it lies, [3], 59;
incompatible with ease, [76], 8;
loss of, [78], 22; [172], 40;
lost, all lost, [105], 55; [106], 1;
man worthy of, sure destiny of, [68], 10;
mine, my life, [279], 43;

more precious than life, [246], 30;
new-made, doth forget men's names, [207], 29;
not merely to be wooed, [384], 34;
once lost, [7], 29;
our true, the seat of, [338], 42;
post of, Carlyle on, [448], 35;
public, effect of, [357], 8;
reward of action, [272], 8;
stintedness in, [532], 3;
the place of virtue, [199], 38;
the post of, [47], 25;
titles of, [489], 16, 17;
to only two sets of men, [503], 45;
to whom due, effect on, [22], 11;
true and false, [199], 15;
undeserved, delight in, [101], 3
Honourable, nothing, without justice, [299], 11;
praiseworthy, [159], 36;
the, defined, [535], 45
Honours, and manners, [238], 37;
dearly bought, [238], 38;
effect of, on manners, [159], 48;
great, great burdens, [133], 35;
hereditary, value of, [155], 22;
how to render remote, near, [474], 16;
men's, [312], 13
Hood, a page of, Lowell on, [130], 23
Hoof, a clattering, [155], 29
Hook, to be always baited, [386], 37
Hope, a helmet, [118], 22; a long, [79], 22;
a too dear, [476], 42;
a waking dream, [110], 4; [222], 44;
against fortune, [552], 29;
air-castles of, still in the air, [140], 24;
all men's, [223], 18;
all-pervasive, [405], 50;
cherisher of life, [49], 52;
deceitful, [320], 23;
enjoyment, [495], 7;
evil of want of, [548], 42;
fed by fancy, [119], 9;
good, the effect of, [401], 29;
he who lives by, [441], 18;
indulgence in, [509], 41;
last stay to give way, [227], 36;
living in, [147], 43;
man's great, [265], 21;
man's greatest happiness, [110], 41;
man's only possession, [263], 48;
never comes, [548], 23;
never lose, [382], 6;
no extinguishing of, [311], 45;
no, no fear, [548], 15;
often illusory, [3], 9;
persistency of, [224], 15;
persuasive power of, [180], 33;
power of, [173], 13; [525], 20;
prayed for, as a blessing, [37], 27;
sayings about, [400], 31-33;
our inclination to, [521], 31;
term of, [5], 4;
the phœnix, [447], 39;
the power of, [319], 16;
to be cherished, [112], 42;
true, [500], 6;
vain, gain in loss of, [20], 25;
worse than despair, [563], 13
Hopes, a bad investment, [401], 22, 23;
as causes of ruin, [102], 11;
high, [82], 41;
our, defined, [338], 18;
vain spending on, [78], 10
Horace, his aim in life, [279], 20;
on his muse, [63], 31
Horace's, prayer, [158], 1;
thanksgiving to the gods, [63], 30
Horizon, a property in the, [470], 21
Horse, a willing, [32], 58;
and his rider, [117], 7;
bridled, ear of, [84], 20;
even a, will stumble, [89], 20;
grown fat, [37], 19;
sayings about the, [435], 30, 31;
what makes a good, [36], 1
Horses, buying, [185], 18;
in England and Italy, [82], 45;
to be fed, not pampered, [84], 16
Hospitable heart, who owns, [403], 27
Hospitality, a, not to be refused, [399], 2;
genuine, effect of, [471], 8;
not impoverishing, [168], 9;
what it consists of, [242], 19
Host, the, characterised, [435], 32
Houndsditch, the exodus from, when possible, [523], 11
Hour, darkest, [422], 38;
past, never returns, [292], 48;
that brings pleasant weather, [484], 27;
the call of, [71], 31;
the, God's, [223], 18;
the morning, [283], 47;
the transient, to be seized, [36], 53
Hours, all, to be improved, [406], 7;
happy, [435], 36
House, an empty, [435], 37;
divided against itself, [171], 8;
full of guests, [36], 31;
one's own, one's real root-room, [317], 44;
ornament of a, [446], 31;
the, what it may be made, [333], 2
Household as home, [435], 39
Households, kingdoms, [251], 22
House-keeping, hard, [270], 45;
vice of our, [460], 34
House-mother, a good, [389], 7
Houses, high, upper storey of, [156], 31;
repairing old, cost of, [327], 19
How, question of, [518], 25
Human, affairs, their risings and sinkings, [451], 46;
countenances, sympathetic, [510], 26;
element in man, [533], 45;
face, Sir J. Reynolds on, [435], 41;
kindness, full o' the milk o', [564], 36;
mind, the disease of, at present, [423], 44;
mind, saying of, [498], 5;
nature, everywhere the same, [332], 17;
nature, how to distort, [152], 40;
nature, its derivation, [65], 34;
nature, rules applicable to, [189], 52;
nature, strength of, under wrong, [468], 12;
nature, the peculiarity of, [3], 65;
nature, two ruling principles in, [504], 2;
race, character of, [100], 36;
race, daring of, [22], 45;
race, the, its best condition, [436], 3;
race, the, task of, [421], 17;
strength, to be exerted against fate, [404], 17;
things, frail support of, [328], 32;
worth, reverence for, the essence of all religions, [375], 28
Humanism contrasted with Christianity, [42], 56
Humanity, a common property, [524], 22;
and education, [65], 34;
as an invention, [261], 53;
as a whole, the only true man, [173], 2;
divinity of, [475], 42;
due to education, [163], 28;
grandmother and daughters of, [396], 32;
grows dearer, [402], 48;
how to elevate, [490], 41;
imitated, so abominably, [167], 14;
in deeds, [517], 28;
its designs and hopes, [206], 5;
joy of, [431], 30;
mistrust of, evil of, [151], 46;
only true principle of, [446], 23;
our goal, [163], 32;
our limit, [253], 8;
the battle of, [215], 46;
the essence of, [198], 43;
the sacred law of, [84], 14;
to be esteemed, [517], 28;
true, in the fields, [567], 33;
what to seek for, [527], 10;
who lives for, [554], 19;
without God, [338], 20
Humble, only, to rule, [169], 10;
sanctuary of, [422], 17
Hume and Johnson, if combined, [554], 24
Humility, a noble, how possible, [334], 42;
and knowledge, [356], 29;
as an ornament, [432], 33;
before God, effect of, [319], 35;
idea of, [428], 39;
modest, beauty's crown, [281], 37;
the Christian doctrine of, [420], 16;
too much, [569], 32;
want of, [518], 32
Humour, and pathos conjoined, [547], 33;
contrasted with wit, [558], 3;
essence of, [425], 41;
enough of a kind, [262], 26;
good, effect of, on weak spirits, [118], 18;
men of, men of genius, [276], 6
true, [231], 16;
true, defined, [500], 8-10
Hunger, a teacher, [259], 2; [285], 39;
best sauce, [180], 6;
effect of, on temper, [101], 30
Hurry, effect of, [104], 48, 50;
evil of, [536], 6;
man in a, Whately's advice to, [441], 16;
sign of incompetency, [553], 22
Hurting and healing, [513], 8
Husband, and wife, qualities of, [190], 45;
and wife, as economists, [492], 19;
the hen-pecked, and the tyrant wife, Burns' anathema on, [52], 1
Husbandman, and his labours, [436], 6;
happiness of, [320], 27;
unselfish labour of, [17], 29;
Virgil of, [371], 19
Husbandry, good, good divinity, [129], 34
Huss, John, at the stake, [322], 3
Hymen contrasted with war, [518], 38
Hymn-book not a panacea, [467], 14
Hypocrisy, homage to virtue, [223], 32;
intolerable, [468], 29;
in managing another, [93], 47;
where it begins, [91], 44
Hypocrite, Bishop Hall on, [436], 7;
Burns' aversion to, [127], 10;
worse than open sinner, [29], 47
Hypocrites, Satan's dupes, [174], 1
Hypotheses, lullabies, [164], 27;
repudiated by Newton, [164], 25
Hypothesis, power of a good stout, [122], 5
Hyssop in chink of wall, raison d'être of, [555], 4
I
Icicle, image of chastity, [40], 37, 39
Idea, a single, devotion to, [168], 37;
a single, possession by, deprecated, [169], 18;
an idle or distracting, evil of, [110], 18;
an infinite religious, power of, [421], 38;
and fact compared, [464], 28;
devotion to an, [379], 7;
fixed, danger of, [5], 47;
manifestation of, as beautiful, fleeting, [65], 28;
men possessed with an, [276], 18;
new, hard to instil, [491], 11;
power of an, [186], 34;
risk of sacrificing all to, [289], 37;
superior worth of, [538], 33;
the, and its manifestations, [65], 5;
the, that is once spoken no longer ours, [436], 8;
to be acted on, if it cannot be uttered, [217], 47
Ideal, accompaniments of, [559], 6;
better than actual, [91], 55; [92], 9;
attained, a low one, [149], 45;
describable only when conceived as real, [448], 40;
every one has his, [26], 58;
from duty, [116], 31;
in actual, [415], 33;
now insisted on, not natural, [112], 32;
ousted by the real, [415], 28;
pursuing one's own, [173], 29;
the, an illusory vision, [72], 40;
the, for every one, and how to realise it, [124], 7;
to grow in the real, [436], 9
Idealist, the, and his body, [315], 23
Ideals, extinct, [65], 4;
our, defined, [338], 21
Ideas, ancient, entertainment by moderns of, [174], 9;
change of, pleasure in, [315], 43;
confining, controlling power of, [524], 31;
delusive, prevalence of, [58], 10;
hard to discern, [391], 26;
having, and thinking, compared, [493], 9;
how realisable, [302], 34;
like pieces of money, [207], 34;
made flesh, [399], 21;
mistaken, the stupefying and pauperising effect of, [201], 35;
new, daring and inspiring, genesis of, [297], 26;
not measure of a man, [312], 32;
our, like pictures, [338], 22;
our want, not facts, [524], 45;
power of, [546], 30;
the shells of, [89], 38;
those who build on, [479], 23;
to assume a visible form, [91], 30;
world of, a refuge, [492], 14
Idioms, in language, [91], 11
Idiots, only, twice cozened, [116], 22;
the greatest, [478], 13
Idle, always busiest, [180], 20;
always dodge work, [108], 7;
chagrins of, [467], 28;
man, character of, [333], 8;
man, according to Socrates, [143], 41;
people, and their ennui, [345], 8;
the, and the devil, [423], 28;
the, characteristic of, [238], 20;
their intentions, [436], 13
Idleness, a reproach, [490], 23;
a tempting of the devil, [178], 52;
better than a bad trade, [29], 13;
busy, [268], 40;
evil of, [15], 19; [34], 3; [287], 29; [306], 42;
evil of encouraging, [175], 11;
fly, [108], 1;
harder work than industry, [97], 20;
in youth, penalty of, [25], 37;
its hopelessness, [187], 32;
mischief of, [224], 14;
strenuous, the toil of, [403], 35;
the blight of genius, [5], 20;
the evil of, [12], 48;
the toil of, [153], 17;
too much, effect of, [497], 38
Idler, a young, [214], 42;
like a handless watch, [15], 20
Idlers, great talkers, [345], 16
Idolater, the true, [363], 32
Idolatry, a mad, [488], 19;
the, that is condemnable, [46], 9
"If," comprehensiveness of, [24], 37;
the inventor of, [60], 30;
virtue in, [568], 22
Igdrasil, the tree, [399], 46
Ignorance, a modest confession of, [13], 51;
and unconsciousness of it, [147], 36;
as support of priestcraft, [377], 26;
audacious, versus timorous knowledge, [546], 22;
comfort of, [116], 10;
contrasted with error, [84], 50; [85], 4; [85], 10;
evil of, [306], 42; [436], 14;
happiness, [83], 45;
honest, [471], 1;
human, Goethe on, [320], 29;
in action, [315], 25;
life-long, a tragedy, [414], 3;
man's, [483], 25;
of good from bad, effect of, [178], 21;
of self, [175], 5;
our, fatal, [539], 26;
rather than falsehood, [28], 56;
sense of, from greater knowledge, [443], 28;
sense of, mark of wisdom, [175], 5;
that marks a superior nature, [469], 32;
the only darkness, [472], 20;
true, [146], 2;
unconsciousness of, [147], 37;
voluntary, blameworthness of, [148], 41
Ignorant, man, an, according to the Hitopadesa, [151], 14;
the, most violent, [477], 24
Iliad, and wayside incidents, [436], 16;
Homer's, Carlyle on, [158], 37; [436], 17
Iliads, no formulæ for making, [467], 32
Ilium, sacred, fate of, [86], 33
Ill, a solace under, [184], 35;
patiently borne, [442], 41;
reports, credit given to, [274], 7;
saying and thinking no, [208], 41;
to do, who fears, [551], 18
Ill-bred man, mark of, [447], 30
Ill-done, the, no concern of ours, [554], 29
Ill-fortune, the, inexperienced in, [551], 32;
without power on him whom good fortune deceives not, [181], 41
Ill-humour, protection from, [517], 31
Illiterate man, mark of, [447], 30
Ill-luck, fascination of, [398], 34;
how to avert, [31], 27
Ill-mannered, manners of, to whom odious, [441], 26
Ill-manners, three sources of, [356], 32
Ill-natured man, and public spirit, [202], 33
Ills, imaginary, Burns on, [33], 11;
in relation to blessings, [31], 17;
the, we have to be borne, [424], 19;
why ills, [139], 17
Ill-thought of, to be, sometimes a good, [490], 24
Ill-tidings, let, tell themselves, [123], 31
Ill-usage, effect of, [292], 16
Illusion, and after remorse, [61], 32;
its extent, [482], 19;
men's fondness for, [275], 9;
no end to, [72], 50;
power of, [349], 33;
that gladdens contrasted with truth that saddens, [80], 2;
the attractive power of, [320], 20;
the danger of, [422], 34;
which pervades life, [533], 23
Illusions, unmasking of, disliked, [502], 16
Illustrious, men, the sepulchre and the memorial of, [325], 5;
the most, [197], 15
Ill-will, the force of, [426], 48
Images, things expressed through, [480], 44
Imagination, a need of, [397], 22;
and reality, the worlds of, [465], 7;
appeals to, [263], 43;
as wings of ostrich, [157], 2;
contrasted with judgment, [223], 34;
death of, in love, [472], 27;
free, as nothing else, [315], 19;
in the poet, [448], 18;
madcap of the brain, [223], 33;
man's ruling and divine power, [403], 38;
more sensitive than heart, [200], 54;

Napoleon on the power of, [39], 8;
necessary to recognition of truth, [105], 12;
no imagination, [150], 8;
power of, [525], 21;
sayings about, [436], 20-23;
science indebted to, [382], 27;
strong, tricks of, [405], 53;
subject only to art, [78], 37;
surpassed by reality, [369], 21;
the element of, [397], 22;
to be kept sane, [217], 31;
under the affections, [545], 22;
want of, a grave defect, [16], 14;
without learning, [150], 32;
without taste, [78], 37;
without truth, [105], 33
Imbecility, man's, effect of, [436], 24
Imitation, a source of all apprenticeship, [138], 9;
easy, [34], 19;
long step to, [470], 5;
more potent than precept, [200], 46;
not discipleship, [490], 8;
of another's style, [493], 23;
of evil contrasted with that of good, [150], 49;
of good and of bad, [223], 15;
power of, [475], 36;
rule in, [362], 8; [529], 29
Immaterial things essential to life, [468], 26
Immortality, balked of, [144], 42;
effect of disbelief in, [544], 38;
essence of, [425], 33;
faith in, to be enjoyed in silence, [243], 12;
Horace's assurance of his, [310], 21;
how we forfeit, [529], 39;
our faith in, [523], 27;
the blazing evidence of, [337], 38;
the interest in, [66], 46
Impatience, Burns on, [340], 17;
difficult to conquer,
167, 1;
the evil of, [343], 11;
to right one's self to be curbed, [402], 10
Imperial spirits, rare prerogative of, [492], 43
Imperfections, our, the secret of, [306], 22
Impious to be feared, [166], 6
Importance, airs of, deceptive, [7], 38;
effect of imagination on, [565], 15;
in matters of, trust unsafe, [184], 19
Impossibilities, created by idleness, [202], 28;
faith laughs at, [100], 21
Impossible, everything at first, [92], 11;
no binding to the, [8], 34;
possible only to man, [261], 47;
proof of certainty, [38], 32;
the, [540], 10
Imposture, evils of, [9], 46;
probably for good, [357], 34
Impression, moral, when strongest, [338], 36
Impromptu test of wit, [223], 16
Improvement, means of, [531], 14;
not every, virtue, [298], 70;
secondary to invention, [98], 44
Improvements, resistance to, as innovations, [480], 16
Improvidence of life, [550], 42
Impudence, a god, [466], 24;
how to avoid imputation of, [461], 26;
mistaken for confidence, [289], 30;
the acme of, [440], 41
Impulse, the inner, power of, [475], 44
Impunity, evil effect of, [184], 6
In and out, in spiritual world, [191], 19
Inability, moral, and guilt, [283], 13;
suspends law, [183], 48
Inaction, accursed, [292], 6
Inanimate, the, to speak and reason, [265], 9
Inanity, alone endless, [314], 44
Incapable aping capable, [194], 39
Incapacity, the first proof of, [428], 33
Incense, a little, effect of, [505], 32;
ashes, and burning of, [301], 9;
on altar, obscuring effect, [421], 1
Incivility, from a superior, [506], 38
Inclination, and will, in the matter of virtue, [6], 42;
conquering, benefit of, [503], 8;
determining power of, [480], 39;
natural, to be controlled, [212], 7;
undue regard for one's own, [467], 16;
with habit, impossible to conquer, [491], 22
Incomprehensible, comprehensible, [61], 9
Incongruous, the, displeasing, [314], 31
Inconstancy man's one fault, [320], 35
Increase, the end of, [94], 40
Incredible, how to treat, [538], 43
Incredulity, a religion like the others, [223], 36
Independence, apostrophe to, [486], 10;
commended, [11], 28;
evil of loss of, [277], 4;
fruit of injustice, [224], 2;
rebellious, painful, [340], 45;
the best, [417], 40;
the glorious privilege of, [491], 17;
the secret of, [204], 24
Independent mind, Burns to, [483], 43
Index, an, a saving, [487], 1
Indian, the poor, faith of, [252], 12
Indies, wealth of the, [461], 41, 42
Indifference, prevalence of, now, [317], 42;
two kinds of, [131], 10
Indigence, man in, [542], 10
Indigestion, cause of dreams, [41], 52
Indignation, source of inspiration, [390], 24;
that makes verses, Carlyle on, [436], 27;
weaker than love, [255], 9
Individual, always moving, [436], 28;
as a private door to the divine, [125], 35;
first period of, [428], 28;
most important period in life of, [444], 1;
no, for his own sake, [91], 45;
no bridge between one and another, [472], 12;
the measure of an, [210], 28;
the, in society, [396], 17
Individualism, absolute, [2], 20;
adverse to welfare of the whole, 95,14;
preservative of power, [75], 18
Individuality, at a discount, [526], 22;
one's, his limit, [303], 26;
one's, sacred, [304], 43;
planted in instinct, power of, [174], 32
Individuals, easily dispensed with, [522], 42;
singly and corporately, [212], 11
Indolence, a perpetual holiday, [177], 48;
an end of, [334], 37;
king for life, [325], 9;
mistaken for patience, [330], 44;
our mental, [524], 33;
that voluntary debility, evil of, [414], 23
Indolent man, in love, [202], 55
Indulgence, how we learn, [205], 20;
rarer than pity, [187], 11
Industrious, first need of, [494], 1
Industry, as a defence, [99], 5;
building upon Nature, [544], 8;
condition of God's gifts, [125], 38;
dependence on one's own, [200], 36;
gifts that crown, [194], 4;
its support, [186], 41;
mistress of, [549], 27;
mother of, [518], 26;
the power of, [394], 7;
unfortunate condition of, [396], 21
Inevitable, arguing with, [472], 47;
folly of fearing or lamenting, [534], 28;
the, folly of distress about, [404], 33;
the, hard to bear, [54], 35;
to be yielded to, [551], 44
Infant, crying in the night, [15], 41;
those who have lost an, [480], 8
Infant's faith, sacredness of, [151], 47
Inference compared with observation, [323], 36
Inferior, finding one's, a first duty, [428], 15;
the, of nothing, worthlessness of, [147], 23
Infidelity, associated with bigotry, [407], 9;
general, as soil for religious ideas, [119], 39
Infinite, an epitome of, in every man, [266], 47;
how to attain to, [556], 28;
how to express, in art, [185], 10;
in finite, [495], 28;
nearness of, [116], 3;
seen in finite, [261], 45;
surest of facts, [436], 32;
the, how to read, [384], 37
Infinity, the chosen for, [507], 7
Infirmity, the badge of, [287], 33;
that last, of noble minds, [101], 23
Influence, defined, [9], 50;
over men, how to attain, [560], 27;
secret of, [436], 34;
true, [500], 11
Influences, man needs, [264], 1
Infortune, worst kind of, [110], 31
Ingratitude, a curse on, [403], 40;
evil of, [491], 14;
hatefulness of, [166], 31;
man's, [31], 2;
our suffering from, [524], 3;
the worst of vices, [132], 35
Ingle-nook, men must leave, [275], 39
Inheritance, as citizens, value of, [260], 8;
anticipated, [176], 23;
from our sires, [525], 3;
man's, [288], 6
Inherited, the, how to profit by, [519], 15
Inhumanity, man's, [266], 38
Iniquity, Burns' measure of, [541], 11;
sowing, penalty of, [148], 22
Injuries, benefit of, [436], 35;
best remedy for, [194], 31;
disregard of, mark of a great mind, [259], 21;
effect of slighting or being angry at, [194], 29;
not to be avenged, [154], 42;
our sense of, [385], 20;
revenging, costly, [198], 5;
to be expected, [97], 23;
to wilful men, [497], 3;
unexpected, [244], 34
Injuring to benefit, [483], 12
Injurious under injury, [311], 32
Injury, a galling, [155], 37;
avenging, easy, [522], 41;
better receive than do, [2], 48;
by a noble man, how to treat, [531], 45;
ghost of an, [472], 44;
how to meet an, [171], 29;
how to recompense, [370], 32, 33;
meditated, done, [194], 30;
mistake in avenging, [550], 25;
scorning to avenge, [427], 4
Injustice, committed, versus injustice suffered, [149], 46;
effect of, on its perpetrator, [485], 31;
effect of sight of, on temper, [209], 6;
greatest, [432], 28;
height of, [158], 38;
Jacobi's definition of, [216], 11;
no man means an, [302], 50;
no success, [405], 29;
not to be borne, [85], 16;
rather suffer than do, [169], 30;
to individual, [436], 36;
unbearable, [526], 31
Inmost things melodious, [194], 34
Inner, and outer, [446], 32;
sacrifice of, to outer, [198], 36
Innocence, a heroic, [469], 41;
silent, persuasiveness
of, [453], 36;
and obscurity, advantages of, [323], 30;
and mystery, incompatibility of, [210], 18;
badge of, [87], 38;
coerced, like a caged lark, [44], 18;
eloquence of, [15], 43;
friend of, [66], 45;
from misfortune, [329], 22;
greatest prerogative of, [492], 2;
how regarded by guilty, [151], 5;
in whom alone, [104], 3;
power of, [66], 10;
prior to guilt, [94], 22;
to be protected at any cost, [29], 44;
to eye of vice, [496], 39;
true, mark of, [365], 19;
within, good armour, [153], 23;
youth-preserving power of, [319], 8
Innocent, as doves, [399], 27;
sleep of the, [436], 40;
the, what is due to, [496], 8
Innovations, crude at first, [20], 45
Inquirers, Goethe's dislike to, [272], 23
Inquiries, numerical, [318], 39;
scientific and learned, Mephisto on, [512], 50
Inquiry, before judgment, [27], 47;
beginning of, [417], 22;
default of, [174], 47;
fundamental, [174], 46;
the proper subject of, [288], 46
Inquisitive person to be shunned, [345], 42
Inquisitiveness, penalty of, [147], 28;
implying ill-will, [51], 47
Insanity, a certain, necessary, [304], 11;
common, [300], 16;
contrasted with inspiration, [255], 14
Inscriptions, lapidary, [187], 39; [230], 8
Insect, an, an insect on a queen, [305], 19
Insensibility, and anguish, the mean between, [528], 33;
too much, [497], 46
Insight, before eloquence, [162], 10;
clear, its compass, [164], 13;
deep, tendency of, [56], 51;
effect of, [525], 14;
indispensableness of, [391], 26;
reckoned final, [262], 16;
worth a life's experience, [13], 52
Insincerity, Carlyle on, [471], 20
Insinuations, Devil's rhetoric, [73], 38
Insolence from contemptible people, [471], 10
Inspiration, contrasted with insanity, [255], 14;
from above time, [486], 38;
from indignation, [99], 4;
in the dullest, [190], 26;
necessity for, [326], 24;
of the Almighty, [206], 21;
possibility of, [471], 5;
the word, [463], 25;
to be enjoyed while it lasts, [243], 31;
to be waited for, [503], 2
Inspired, the truly, [417], 4
Instability, cause of, [540], 37;
of things, [19], 35
Instant, the, to be taken by forward top, [244], 18
Instinct, as substitute for reason, [111], 11;
contrasted with reason, [369], 35, 42;
mere, no guide for a man, [212], 7;
our, most sacred, [54], 2;
to be trusted, [501], 11
Instincts, who speaks to the, [553], 35
Institutions, aim of all, [440], 26;
ancestral, to be respected, [289], 25
Instructed, the, a time coming for, [501], 13;
the half and the wholly, Goethe on, [151], 17
Instruction, divers agents of, [557], 34;
effect of, [70], 30;
even from an enemy, [102], 27;
methods of, [462], 30;
of merely clever men, [437], 2;
the only solid, [446], 19;
valuable as life, [409], 17
Instrument mistaken for agent, [73], 43
Instruments that boast, [399], 14
Insult, harder to bear than wrong, [432], 3;
how to treat, [538], 35; [540], 24;
polite, its keenness, [453], 46
Insurrection, how to foment, [90], 1
Insurrections, dangerous, [204], 25
Integrity, Cromwell on, [405], 24;
reputation for, forfeited, [542], 6;
sayings about, [357], 37, 38
Intellect, a large, mark of, [14], 23;
a man's, measure of his worth, [163], 20;
all, moral, [10], 27;
and experience as lights, [94], 32;
and heart, connection of, [520], 16;
better than Nature, [291], 41;
different forms of, and their relation to the ridiculous, [61], 30;
dweller in, lonely, [472], 19;
endowments of, [392], 49;
error of, measure of, [190], 15;
function of, [458], 42;
heroism of, [100], 17;
inflexible, [233], 4;
life of, [75], 26;
man of, his proper place in affairs, [440], 26;
man of, lost without energy, [440], 27;
men of great, not of the world, [276], 3;
occupied in splitting hairs, [416], 31;
our ideal of, [416], 5;
sayings about the, [437], 4-6;
superior, always self-conscious, [305], 49;
march of, [441], 28, 29;
timid, loss to world from, [550], 45;
without energy, [12], 32
Intellectual men, when at their best, [202], 48
Intelligence, a man of large, [37], 52;
as a social bond, [32], 49;
characteristic of, [1], 31;
clear, the great point, [240], 27;
dependence of, on misfortune, [136], 33;
educating, [492], 6;
men of limited, censure of, [238], 14;
movements of, characterised, [404], 41;
natural, power of, [292], 44;
self-conscious, illusory, [162], 44;
without energy, [31], 1
Intelligent, the, right of, [437], 7
Intemperance in feeling, [199], 50
Intent, secret, betrayed by outward act, [3], 44
Intention, a pure, [272], 30;
evil, guilt of, [140], 41;
fixed upon God as end, [413], 17;
of things never clear, [451], 19
Intercourse, our social, [339], 9;
social, good effect of, [396], 2
Interest, as a teacher, [64], 30;
lessening fatigue, [178], 25;
limit of, in people, [274], 43;
minus self-interest, [94], 15;
power of, in settling doubts, [111], 43;
private, no such thing as, [172], 44
Interests, great, apt to clash, [189], 45;
man's, an augury of him, [411], 41;
renounced, not tastes, [275], 35
Intimacies, to be sparing in, [526], 23
Intolerable things, three, [468], 29
Intolerance, fierce, as a symptom, [412], 22
Intolerant man, the, [437], 8
Intoxication, habitual, criminality of, [138], 23
Intrepidity, commended, [243], 39
Introspection, no, [483], 46
Intrusion, prying, [551], 22
Invent, how to learn to, [200], 43
Invention after truth,