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

[105], 33;
and memory, [273], 20;
highest, characterised, [434], 38;
the difficult achievement, [98], 44
Inventions, adding to, [179], 1;
and society, [396], 32;
daughters of humanity, [121], 56;
perfection of, slow, [299], 18
Inventor, a borrower, [334], 46
Investigators, quibbling, [444], 4
Invisible, embodied in visible, [266], 11;
the, garment of, [457], 24;
world, in and about us, [437], 11
Iron, hand, in velvet glove, [15], 44;
striking the, [527], 2
Irregularities as signs, [184], 40
Irremediable, not to be lamented over, [37], 28
Irresolute man, pitiable, [475], 37
Irresolution, a proof of weakness, [474], 32;
effect of, [201], 10;
rebuked, [161], 37
Irretrievable, the, how to treat, [114], 44
Isolation, no such thing as, [188], 24;
of man from man, impossible, [274], 41;
to be avoided, [527], 30
Italy, seasons in, [156], 17
J
Jack and gentleman, [392], 19
Jackdaw, the Welshman's, [484], 14
Jackdaws, how to escape the scream of, [397], 31
Jargon, dogmatic, [70], 34
Jealous, with what possessed, [437], 16
Jealousy, cancer of, [419], 24;
how to get rid of, [176], 14;
ineradicable, [49], 19;
its malignant nature, [437], 17;
love of self, [181], 14;
that may make better, [480], 28;
the fruit of, [78], 28;
the green-eyed monster, [29], 63
Jean Paul of his early poverty, [449], 27
Jehovah, Jove, or Lord, [103], 7
Jeer, effect of one, [332], 43
Jericho, go to, [125], 2
Jest, a, expected, [437], 18;
and earnest, treatment of, [172], 34;
rather lose, than friend, [29], 31;
preferring, to friend, [148], 51;
sundering, from earnest, [151], 26;
the prosperity of a, [7], 40, 41
Jester, little short of fool, [146], 45;
to be shunned, [108], 3
Jesting, danger of, with the great, [98], 28;
not understood by nature, [292], 30
Jests, he, at scars, [144], 6;
made and repeated, [108], 56;
wanton, [518], 36
Jesuit order described, [224], 3
Jesus, always with His own, [252], 9;
and Socrates, difference between, [423], 33;
His own sole witness, [1], 52;
of Himself as Son of man, [454], 9;
religion of, [451], 9;
the heart of, unpenetrated, [42], 50;
the teaching of, [529], 12
Jew, hath not a, eyes, [141], 16
Jewels, God's, how polished, [126], 12;
hid, lost, [156], 21;
merely to look at, [115], 2
Jews, the, Goethe on, [437], 15
Job, afflictions of, the record of, [447], 19
Job's faith, [169], 33
John Bull, advice to, [241], 22;
the vis inertiæ of, [312], 24;
the pride of, [424], 26
Johnny Pigeon's epitaph, [155], 12
Joke, a, love of, [124], 24;
among whom to risk a, [333], 49;
the worst, [474], 49
Jokes, laughter at one's own, [545], 5;
risk incurred by, [109], 34
Joking, incompatible with malignity, [497], 24;
rule in, [4], 16;
with ladies, [281], 2
Jollity and tranquillity, [499], 1
Journal, the learned, Emerson on, [207], 38
Journalist, Bismarck's definition of, [569], 22;
to whom he owes tribute, [498], 34
Jove, prayer to, [380], 56
Joy, amid misfortune, [22], 24;
and grief, in measure, [371], 25;
and pain, relative amount of, [471], 36;
and sorrow, [114], 48;
and weeping at, [162], 5;
as a teacher, [334], 47;
concealment of, [145], 30;
deep, awe in, [9], 20;
each present, absorbing, [75], 22;
effect of, as compared with that of grief, [136], 34, 35;
effect of excessive, on reason, [54], 1;
effect of imparting, [473], 24;
effect of, on mind, [133], 32;
effect of reflection on, [417], 3;
fellowship in, [460], 32;
great, after great change, [133], 45;
great, how earned, [133], 36;
how to find, [567], 41;
how we part with, [527], 45;
in Heaven, [532], 5;
man's, only in building up, [312], 36;
meaning of, [91], 37;
not in joys, [64], 18;
our face of, [529], 40;
profound, [357], 53;
seen only in a beautiful face, [379], 37;
shared, [20], 7; [92], 22;
shared, joy doubled, [122], 12; [385], 28;
sympathy with, [548], 40;
the greatest, [474], 14;
three parts pain, [28], 18;
true, [500], 12, 13;
true, a character of, [374], 26;
true, its origin, [499], 35;
unfelt, hard to feign, [154], 32;
vanishing, [519], 25
Joyousness, essential to all useful effort, [77], 37;
mother of virtues, [64], 19
Joys, concealment of, [149], 36;
connection of, with sorrows, [191], 41;
each condition its own, [82], 55;
highest, source of, [434], 44;
killed with love, [154], 1;
little and great, [251], 21;
not unmingled, [508], 11;
participation in another's, [152], 2;
purest, how obtained, [452], 20;
too high, not to be sought, [527], 33;
unfelt, hard to feign, [154], 32
Judas, equal to Jesus at the ballot-box, [33], 45;
even a, among the apostles, [89], 21
Judge, a lax, [310], 27;
a good and faithful, [31], 60;
an incompetent, [175], 6;
and jury, their functions, [4], 50;
and law, compared, [259], 4;
appeal to the heart of, [125], 4;
duties of, [214], 30-33;
duty of, [390], 19;
not, and reason why, [112], 6;
of others, how to, [527], 31;
others, how we, [523], 33;
our, he who made the heart, [552], 14;
who acquits a criminal, [214], 1;
who cannot punish, [7], 43;
whom no king can corrupt, [154], 5
Judges, cobblers, [279], 46;
function of, [237], 20;
good, rare, [129], 41;
should have two ears, [376], 31;
the duty and practice of, [233], 22;
virtue required in, [327], 58
Judging by the event, [493], 25;
defined, [493], 26;
men, golden rule of, [198], 27;
others, [41], 4;
well or evil, [551], 2
Judgment, a, well tried, [387], 52;
and wit, [557], 50; [558], 6;
and knowledge, [221], 6, 7;
as a mark of genius, [281], 22;
as the inner man, [405], 47;
at the helm, [544], 30;
contrasted with imagination, [223], 34;
contrasted with invention, [196], 13;
deceptive, [453], 13;
dependent upon feeling, [522], 20;
divine, [125], 22, 32, 33; [127], 47;
fled to brutish beasts, [321], 6;
haste in, [187], 36;
how to form, [27], 47;
lack of, danger of, [94], 17;
last, necessary, [7], 62, 63;
last, responsibility at, [568], 28;
like a pair of scales, [437], 21;
limit of, [539], 24;
of others, [93], 20;
of posterity and contemporaries, contrasted, [47], 7;
of the wisest, [463], 26;
one's own, as standard, [267], 4;
of man and woman, [267], 34;
private, Dr. Stirling on, [357], 9;
private, no standard of right, [286], 10;
right, rule for, [109], 9;
self-satisfaction with, [93], 10;
spoiled by imagination, [398], 22;
the world's, [384], 22;
to be according to law, [214], 24;
to be charitable, [163], 21;
trade on, [57], 41;
vulgar, of a great man, [422], 19;
weakness of, [66], 16;
which we have here, [530], 10;
word of, above man, [114], 13
Judgments, estimate of our, [489], 13;
to be weeded of opinion, [531], 7;
worthlessness of people's, [181], 26
Juggling, as governing world, [204], 7
Julian, his apostrophe to Christ, [514], 3
Juliet, love of, for Romeo, [123], 15
Jupiter, leniency of, [390], 33
Jurists, bad Christians, [215], 9
Jury, function of, [4], 50
Just, cause, defence of, [215], 42;
condition of being, [523], 5;
for unjust, [17], 38;
man may need help, [89], 32;
man, rising again of, [109], 4;
path of, [447], 11;
perfectly, or according to ability, [490], 33;
the actions of, [335], 12;
the, the little of, [439], 26;
the only, stern, [151], 18;
the, without law, [117], 43;
thing, the strong, [455], 35
Justice, a safe shield, [93], 49;
a source of wrong, [9], 24;
administrator of, qualities of, [152], 28;
ally of religion, [313], 45;
all-pervading, [431], 36;
and generosity combined, power of, [429], 47;
and just men, our love for, [525], 32;
and liberty, effect of separating, [547], 29;
as administered, [54], 23;
as bandaged, [22], 28;
at all risks, [105], 26, 27;
compared with severity and love, [285], 13;
defined, [113], 12; [408], 17; [432], 27; [536], 22;
defined and described, [216], 32, 34-38;
discernment of, a revelation, [546], 35;
divine, instant, [125], 31;
enforced in Bible, [384], 45;
essence of, [425], 42;
exact, mercifulness of, [95], 45;
extreme, evil, [98], 3;
first, [27], 25;
foundation of temple of charity, [40], 29;
God's, unfailing, [128], 9;
guide, [241], 23;
how preserved, [245], 46;
how to be loved, [151], 3;
impartial, truest mercy, [207], 6;
in judgment and action, defined, [225], 39;
in the eyes of God, [491], 42;
lawyer's, versus God's, [161], 40;
love of, [222], 12;
no, without generosity, [202], 36;
not to be sold, [344], 14;
one hour in the execution of, [332], 37;
orbs of, steadfast, [484], 29;
respect for the gods, [68], 53;
second to religion, [297], 39;
secure, [553], 14;
simple, [164], 26;
springs of, [283], 19;
subtlety of, [225], 40;
the administration of, [402], 45;
the chamber of, [46], 36;
the foundation of, [117], 36;
the, in fair round belly, [437], 23;
the only fountain of, [63], 46;
the reward of, [496], 13;
those who doubt or deny, [483], 19;
to man, desire of all, [273], 37;
uncompromising, [169], 8;
unfailing, [340], 19;
virtue of, [460], 39, 40;
virtue of great souls, [66], 30;
virtue of the man, [121], 50;
Westminster, and God's, different, [268], 50;
when too severe, [406], 39;
with the gods, [390], 12;
without recompense, [271], 30
Juvenal on his book, [365], 22
K
Keats', epitaph, [155], 13;
rank as poet, [503], 48
Keeping, and giving, rule in, [217], 40;
as a merit, [293], 40
Kepler's highest wish, [288], 2
Kernel, who would eat, [364], 54
Kettle, rusty, not to be tinkered, [568], 31
Key, a gold, power of, [6], 37
Kin, a little more than, [8], 46
Kind, only the, fair, [311], 9;
words, healing power of, [15], 27
Kindly spirit, a, the human element, [332], 16
Kindness, according to the Hitopadesa, [143], 31;
a sudden blaze of, [406], 1;
breaks no bones, [137], 35;
commended, [243], 47;
deeds of, how repaid, [440], 22;
defined, [536], 23;
exemplar in repairing, [189], 29;
how to recompense, [370], 32;
little deeds of, effect of, [251], 9;
prevalency of, [524], 19;
requiting, hard, [522], 41;
soon forgotten, [50], 51;
the joy of doing, [106], 21;
to grateful and to ungrateful, [132], 40;
to the good, not wasted, [31], 35
Kindnesses, misplaced, [531], 26;
the best, [408], 31
Kindred, love of, [107], 38
King, a clown at heart, [33], 46;
a good, [6], 44;
a, the look of, [430], 38;
attribute of a, [553], 23;
an anointed, no deposing, [312], 19;
and kingdom, relation between, [375], 39;
contrast between, and a father, [86], 10;
every inch a, [25], 34; [179], 25;
fitness of the name, [89], 48;
good, value of, [127], 11;
his limits, [80], 55;
morality of a, [443], 5;
not a creature of chance, [296], 35;
of England, legal mercy of, [438], 35;
Popinjay, [35], 15;
sayings about the, [375], 40-45; [437], 31-38;
the (see Rex);
what most becomes, [301], 17
Kingdom, a man's, [313], 23;
of God, condition of entering, [554], 40;
of God, in what it consists, [437], 39
Kings, a world of, [172], 11;
and people, [534], 38;
and people, relation of, [447], 23;
anger of, [132], 50;
bands of, [15], 46;
contrasted with shepherds, [123], 43;
courts of, composition of, [22], 1;
divine right of, [451], 36;
divine right of, settled, [479], 7;
eyes and ears of, [286], 2;
heaven-chosen for us, [35], 15;
knowledge of, [493], 31;
last argument of, [505], 1;
not without good qualities, [38], 36;
not without their virtues, [190], 2;
only eloquence in behalf of, [233], 15;
only privates plus ceremony, [535], 24;
powerlessness of, to kill or cure, [162], 30;
the art of, [381], 11;
the curse of, [206], 6;
the, of modern thought, [437], 37;
the politeness of, [223], 12;
the true, [478], 50;
the wealth of, [335], 34;
their misdeeds and the penalty, [57], 53;
wise, and their councillors, [557], 33
Kinship, spiritual, test of, [73], 44
Kiss, echo of the sound of a, [454], 28
Kissing, full of sanctity, [157], 1
Kitchen, fundamental institution, [45], 22;
vital part of the house, [555], 27
Kite, a carrion, [2], 37
Knave, a crafty, [3], 32;
a, how to win, [45], 1;
an old, [15], 57;
and fool, [5], 58;
found out, [81], 5;
one thoroughly, [91], 38;
once, [331], 21;
wit needed by, [109], 11
Knavery, and folly, excuse for, [102], 29;
baseness of, [200], 17;
defined and developed from cunning, [51], 28;
no, if no fools, [174], 47
Knaves, first of nine order of, [428], 27;
honourable in the mass, [238], 33
Knight, lying, in dark ages, [302], 49;
scarce a, [145], 7
Knights of chivalry, [42], 35; [260], 41
Know, seeking to, [40], 59;
three things to, [199], 27;
to, as an act, [493], 44
"Know thyself," as a precept, [76], 42;

[183], 43
Knowing, and doing, [525], 7;
compared with doing, [557], 49;
condition of, [525], 14;
difficult, [165], 6;
easier than doing, [175], 23;
meaning of all, [535], 41;
people, [99], 6;
the step from, to doing, [305], 13;
worth, not always knowable, [297], 51
Knowledge, a forbidden, [383], 48; [384], 47;
a burden, [506], 27;
a question of use, [203], 31;
a rare, [477], 28;
a steep, [110], 12;
all in all of, [415], 50;
all, useful, [166], 47;
and doubt, [482], 38;
and knowing it, [147], 34;
and thought, [485], 1;
as a helpmate to virtue, [515], 1;
as a test, [147], 31;
as a treasure, [324], 42;
benefit of, in use, [204], 26;
by rote, [493], 29;
by travelling and by reading, [413], 37;
Comte's stages of, [39], 53;
contentment in regard to, [199], 49;
contrasted with ignorance, [178], 7, 8;
crediting, to others, [62], 1;
death, [319], 12;
definition of, [547], 17;
diffused, [68], 5;
dissembling, not safe, [176], 37;
divorced from justice, [383], 5;
effect of, on faith, [504], 23;
essence of, [425], 43;
excellency of, [557], 6;
exclusively one's own, its value, [540], 48;
for imparting, [385], 32;
from enterprise, [269], 41;
from others' folly and wisdom, [413], 24;
gaining, a delight, [280], 8;
grades in, [469], 32;
great, an effect of, [431], 44;
great, without vanity, effect of, [133], 46;
growing in, happiness of, [413], 41;
highest, [493], 40;
how to acquire, [243], 10; [381], 25;
how to seek, [405], 55;
human, Goethe on, [320], 29;
in a disciplined mind, [508], 22;
in the purest sense, [469], 10;
increased, sorrow increased, [146], 59;
intimacy better than extent of, [102], 6;
irreverent, [15], 45;
its flowers and seed, [453], 5;
its price the drawback, [312], 9;
its quality main thing, [204], 31;
little, who has, [42], 25;
man of, mark of, [146], 49;
natural, how attained, [290], 14;
no, lost, [302], 40;
no, without thinking, [481], 24;
not enough, [203], 40;
obstacle to, [383], 17;
of causes, happiness in, [104], 24;
of wise and ignorant contrasted, [30], 13;
origin of, [73], 22;
our, at best, [521], 18;
our highest enjoyment, [489], 27;
our, often worthless, [539], 26;
our, an illusion, [319], 13;
possession of, a right, [308], 22;
question in regard to, [522], 44;
real, the nature of, [369], 14;
ripening and flowering of, [229], 38;
rising in, effect of, [546], 40;
sayings about, [493], 28-44; [494], 1;
seat of, [452], 37;
source of, [393], 20;
strength, [147], 35;
that is worth, [142], 4;
that suffices, [201], 31;
the beginning and end of, [100], 11;
the beginning of, [254], 50;
the best part of, [417], 52;
the condition of acquiring, [12], 24;
the desire of, an effect of, [423], 10;
the key of, [392], 5;
the only, we possess, [358], 7;
the pearl of the faith-sea, [23], 8;
the tree of, [136], 36; [458], 24;
thirst for, [443], 29;
thorough, test of, [445], 37;
three stages of, [90], 38;
to be heralded by reverence, [260], 28;
to be reverenced, [241], 24;
to many too costly, [269], 36;
true, [500], 14, 15;
true, defined, [374], 14;
true, for life, not debate, [547], 13;
vain pursuit of, [145], 43;
versus practice, [162], 18;
we need not travel to acquire, [496], 33;
when alone accurate, [525], 6;
when no longer a pleasure, [331], 28;
with limits of satisfaction in, [93], 58;
without energy, [12], 54;
without God 110, 11;
without integrity, [195], 16;
without knowing it, [147], 33;
without practice, [553], 5;
without religion, [371], 44;
without sense, [43], 17;
without virtue, [515], 1;
worth of, though others know it not, [510], 6
Know'st thou the land, [218], 28
Knox, John, Earl of Morton on, [144], 19;
gospel of, to the Scotch, [241], 39
L
Labour, a physician, [227], 37;
and health, [153], 36;
and rest, [478], 22;
as a teacher, [220], 22;
associated with pleasure, [125], 52;
but not soul, saleable, [568], 23;
captains of, to be honoured, [273], 39;
clamorous at gate of morning, [43], 44;
contrasted with luck, [257], 37;
cultivated, effect, [51], 6;
daughter of pain, [485], 5;
division of, division of men, [204], 38;
employed or unemployed, [544], 12;
endurable only in youth, [74], 21;
everlasting law of, [405], 49;
evil of, not regarding, [175], 11;
for other men, [167], 35;
habit of, lost, man lost, [253], 27;
hard, virtue of, [475], 23;
honest, face of, [159], 29;
how made happy, [205], 13;
how made light, [12], 65;
law of, [441], 27;
mostly skilless, [431], 31;
no disgrace, [84], 29;
no living without, [174], 20;
omnipotence and indispensability of, [314], 41;
prescribed by Christianity, [241], 7;
problem, the real, [565], 48;
relieving power of, [235], 24;
results of rising by, [387], 13;
sayings about, [228], 23, 24;
teachings of, [62], 13;
the end of, [425], 12;
to be loved, [255], 37;
to organise work for the wise, [547], 20;
vain, [96], 24;
virtue in, [17], 23;
we delight in, [437], 42;
when unavailing, [59], 5
Labourer, Jesus on rights of, [437], 43;
the true, and his hire, [458], 47
Labours, lingering, [129], 36;
past, recollection of, [213], 61
Ladder, how to climb, [152], 51; [532], 12; [567], 2;
mounting the, effect of, [565], 10
Ladders to heaven, [50], 26
Ladies, Johnson's liking for, [165], 7;
presence of at the play, [64], 2;
young, affections of, [415], 35
Lady, characteristic of, [6], 27;
every, queen for life, [276], 32;
mark of, [49], 4
Ladyism, fine, [560], 32
Lairds, Burns' advice to the, [326], 22
Laissez-faire, effect of, on masses, [123], 33
Lamb, a pet, [16], 33;
shorn, God's care for, [66], 42
Lambs, poor harmless, [550], 28
Lame, to be waited for, [179], 20
Lamenting, misery of always, [490], 4;
weakness of, [539], 15
Land, a, how God punishes, [543], 33;
a, where there is no singing, [531], 12;
at the disposal of fortune, [166], 10;
buying, [41], 11;
possession of, sole right to, [312], 26;
possessors of, duty of, [353], 12;
the, our mother, Carlyle on, [437], 47;
the owners of, [437], 48;
the, the proprietors of, [358], 14;
to hastening ills a prey, [181], 40;
where the cypress and myrtle, [220], 8
Landowner, honest, a servant, [304], 13
Landscape, charms of, [89], 44;
point of astonishment in, [186], 36;
property in a, [311], 34
Language, English, [82], 47;
merit in, [104], 21;
one, enough for a woman, [334], 27;
only symbolical, [527], 26;
secret of, [452], 42;
the finest, [427], 41;
unkind, evil of, [507], 41
Languages, a feast of, [479], 8;
foreign, ignorance of, [532], 18
Lapse, effect of one, [334], 13
Larks caught if heavens fall, [34], 13
Lasses, brittle ware, [124], 2;
noblest work of Nature, [23], 25
Last day, beginning and height of, [568], 21;
day to every man, [60], 35
Laugh, a good, [6], 45;
who knows not how to, [345], 15
Laughing, at versus grinning at, [86], 3;
and weeping, cousins german, [229], 6;
disarming, [209], 34;
not subject to mode, [275], 11
Laughs, he who, not a bad man, [151], 30
Laughter, as a sign of worth, [305], 6; compared
with sorrow, [400], 1; effect of, [180], 39;
excessive, a sign of sadness, [306], 9;
ill-timed, [119], 35;
loud, vulgarity of, [253], 34;
matter for, now, [390], 9;
men can bear, [273], 38;
of the cottage and court contrasted, [105], 54;
often deceptive, [38], 1;
our sincerest, [525], 29;
riotous, Holmes on, [451], 45;
significance of, [162], 7; [441], 1;
two kinds, to be distinguished, [528], 27;
unextinguished, [507], 10;
unmannerly, [114], 42;
virtue in, [94], 56;
with reason, [180], 40
Law, a shield to tyranny, [180], 26;
and equity, distinct, [84], 17, 18;
asleep at times, [71], 53;
combined with justice, [4], 5;
contrasted with necessity, [121], 57;
Cicero's definition of, [87], 7;
evasion invented with, [103], 13;
extreme, wrong, [215], 25;
felt as a restraint, [205], 24;
foul chimneys of, hard to sweep clean, [67], 36;
function of, [53], 37; going to, [295], 42;
good, beginning and end of, [417], 19;
ignorance of, no excuse, [178], 19;
impeded by severity, [453], 19;
love in, [184], 24;
must be reason, [315], 9;
no, no sin, [548], 43;
no, without a hole in it, [85], 33;
not to be a scarecrow, [527], 1;
obedience to, when a hardship, [280], 24;
of one's nature, sacredness of, [302], 42;
one certainty in, [184], 15;
oppression by, [344], 51;
pleadings in, [464], 43;
possession by, [213], 6;
requisite in a, [237], 12, 17;
rule of nature, [94], 25;
sacred, [215], 11;
sanctioned by consent, [46], 46;
sayings about, [244], 42-46; [438], 12-29;
seat of, [452], 38;
source of, [125], 44;
stronger than man, [113], 1;
subtlety in, condemned, [300], 15;
teaching of, [220], 5;
the foundation of, [295], 33;
the life of, [369], 36;
to yield to circumstance and custom, [491], 18;
virtue of, [110], 38;
voice of, [452], 38;
who has to execute, [369], 27;
with public morals corrupt, [240], 28
Lawful and honourable, [159], 35
Lawgiver, man's absolute, [356], 10;
the spirit of, [454], 36
Laws, good and bad, defined, [6], 46;
and manners, [267], 36-38, 43;
authors of, [238], 32;
during war, [391], 48;
good, from bad manners, [97], 14; [129], 42;
God's and lawyers' connection with, [205], 15;
good, origin of, [237], 14;
good, out of bad manners, [31], 15;
how rendered binding and stable, [227], 24;
human, copies, [338], 19;
in a corrupted state, [48], 28;
just, to the good, [215], 39;
many, a bad sign, [226], 16;
many, evil of, [210], 42;
ministers and interpreters of, [237], 20;
no, for the just, [117], 43;
oppression of, [19], 11;
organic, Ruskin on, [336], 24;
path of, and power of, [326], 11;
permanence of, [85], 26;
power of, [514], 47;
powerlessness of, to kill or cure, [162], 30;
proper tendency of, [457], 6;
relation of, to penalties, [443], 17;
Ruskin's advice as to reform of, [28], 40;
strict, value of, [403], 36;
the object of, [237], 13; the purpose of, [193], 7;
too severe, worthless, [222], 33;
when useless and when broken, [544], 24;
without morals, [365], 42
Lawsuit, agreement better than, [28], 28
Lawsuits, issue of, protracted, [331], 7;
why avoid, [118], 13
Lawyer, Brougham's definition of, [438], 30;
profession of, [107], 11
Lawyer's, business, [205], 15;
fee, the cheapest, [208], 49
Lawyers, by whom enriched, [108], 40;
experience of, [424], 8
Laziness in individual and in mass, [7], 65
Lazy man, the, [1], 21
Leader, should know the way, [86], 5
Leaf, the two lobes of, [302], 33
Leal, in the land o' the, [478], 10
Learned, in his infidelities, [504], 8;
man, a truly, [413], 43;
man, Aquinas' definition of, [158], 27;
man, rich, [159], 14;
men, Goethe on, [188], 6;
men, more numerous than wise, [526], 9;
men not always liberal, [443], 48;
soon, learned long, [38], 16;
the business of, as compared with the ignorant, [193], 30
Learner, advice to, [318], 16;
his gratitude, [532], 17
Learning, a little, dangerous, [8], 44;
a little, hard to gain, [208], 21;
according to quality of man, [276], 11;
and play, [288], 28;
by observation and experience, [413], 37;
by seeking and blundering, [34], 14;
chief part of, [383], 15;
doting on scraps of, [398], 10;
earthly, end of, [540], 3;
ever, and never knowing, [89], 45;
evil of its apparent facility, [222], 24;
from living, [251], 48;
great school for, [431], 35;
has its value, [229], 18;
how to advance, [187], 40;
inferior to creating, [200], 22;
limitation of, [79], 18;
living by, [308], 20;
loving, [175], 16;
man who does not use his, [151], 32;
matter of quality, [450], 26;
men of great, generosity of, [276], 4;
men of, like ears of corn, [198], 9;
mere, [148], 45;
much, a weariness, [285], 14;
much, much ignorance, [285], 15;
no, without labour, [177], 21;
not wisdom, [304], 20;
of antiquity, venerable, [225], 10;
only to forget, [118], 52;
philosophy as regulating regard for, [347], 24;
possible, every day, [318], 10;
rule in, [237], 41;
rule of, [141], 37;
sayings about, [525], 12-15;
Solon on his, [121], 49;
the condition of, [303], 15;
the source of all, [138], 9;
to be used like a watch, [530], 39;
to last with life, [410], 15;
vanity of fortifying one's self with, [492], 9;
without commonsense, [208], 24;
without discretion, [559], 28;
without morals, [364], 32;
without nature like a maimed man, [292], 35;
without sense, [148], 45;
worth anything, how to acquire, [305], 44
Leaven, power of a little, [8], 45
Legality, risk of, [226], 2
Legend, wedded to history and fancy, [519], 12
Legislation, ancient, wisdom of,

[117], 17;
and administration, mistake about, [198], 17;
foolish, a rope of sand, [108], 37
Legislator, aim of the, [415], 47;
should be moderate, [213], 43
Leibnitz's optimism, Voltaire's version of, [498], 33
Leisure, and solitude, Scipio Africanus on his, [168], 1;
dependent on business, [443], 27;
value of, [211], 4;
without literature, [336], 48
Lending, caution against, [294], 36;
rule of, [141], 37
Leniency at times a crime, [107], 8
Lenity, evil effect of too much, [535], 4
Leonidas at Thermopylæ, [397], 12
Leopard, spots of, not seen, [184], 16
Lesson, first, to be learned, [444], 2;
the best, for many, [417], 49
Lethe, a stream of, in every breath, [558], 25
Letter, a, does not blush, [251], 1;
and spirit, opposite effects of, [250], 33;
long, reason for a, [210], 46;
what we look for in a, [187], 41
Letters, as memorials, [32], 41;
devotion to, a regret, [117], 26;
mirror of a man's breast, [184], 18;
not to be carelessly written, [438], 47;
qualities, good and bad, in, [402], 46;
style of, [456], 2;
the invention of, [206], 18;
the love of, [440], 1
Levellers, their aim, [568], 25;
their failure, [483], 1;
two, [219], 10
Lever, power of, Archimedes on, [169], 15
Levers that move men, [468], 36
Levity, unpardonable, [509], 8
Liar, a swearer, [8], 9;
and his oaths, [505], 30;
needs good memory, [8], 10
Liars, how to be treated, [71], 44;
no legislation for, 473; 13;
to have good memories, [277], 36
Libel, a, in a frown, [47], 51
Liberal, the, sayings about, [438], 45, 46
Liberalism, modern, the follies of, [429], 4
Liberality, defined, [226], 3;
grounds of, to be weighed, [28], 11
Liberties, from the devil, [245], 26;
the basis of all, [153], 35
Liberty, a form of true, [35], 46;
and justice, effect of separating, [547], 29;
as desired by Milton, [123], 19;
child of the north, [56], 52;
civil, defined, [245], 12;
civil, utmost bound of, [481], 47;
crowing about, by slaves, [315], 17;
dearer than country, [343], 24;
destroyed by gifts, [53], 6;
effect of, on man, [396], 3;
free and at her ease, [226], 5;
growth of tree of, [222], 26;
headstrong, [153], 30;
how to forfeit, [27], 60;
how to preserve, [68], 37;
in harmony with law, [435], 1;
in nations, [226], 4;
in relation to taxation, [185], 41;
inspiring power of, [112], 46;
lean, and fat slavery, [235], 36;
limit of, [266], 39;
Mme. Roland at statue of, [321], 12;
no such thing as, [474], 30;
of ancient date, [226], 6;
opening of, [27], 10;
passion for, [235], 10;
political, where only found, [352], 12;
possibility of, [440], 37;
safeguard of, [77], 12;
spirit of, Burke's deference to, [288], 20;
the first to strive for, [324], 18;
the only valuable, [446], 8;
the true, of a man, [458], 49;
tree of, how it grows, [458], 26;
true and false, [500], 16;
defined, [471], 13;
turbulent, versus quiet slavery, [261], 24;
under a pious king, [100], 34;
value of, [436], 3;
when once lost, [526], 1;
without deserving it, [454], 13
Libraries, large, by whom not needed, [451], 33
Library, a witness against its owner, [450], 22;
browsing in, [167], 48;
circulating, [3], 12;
enough, [271], 36;
luxury of revelling in, [148], 13
Licence, an enemy to liberty, [245], 22
Licentiousness, after reformation, [6], 67
Lie, a double-distilled, [35], 28;
a flattering, contrasted with a bitter truth, [529], 14;
a half true, [8], 16, 29;
a, like a snowball, [8], 14;
a, sure to be unmasked, [27], 49;
a, to be crushed, [8], 28;
a, uncalled for, [53], 18;
deformity of, [315], 42;
essence of, [425], 30;
inexcusable, [314], 4;
one, in the heart, evil of, [28], 56;
task involved in telling, [152], 26;
what it wants, [457], 17
Lies, abhorrent to nature, [290], 20;
all, will be dishonoured some day, [302], 45;
and the belief of them, [473], 15;
destroyer of, our gratitude to, [206], 15;
doomed to vanish, [506], 10;
establishing one's self on, [475], 22;
great, great as great truths, [133], 47;
how to overcome, [240], 16;
man born enemy of, [262], 17;
respect implied in telling, of one, [533], 4;
scorned by the upright, [46], 32;
self-productive, [332], 46, 47;
that ruin humanity, Ruskin on, [206], 15;
tolerance of, effect of, [548], 9;
white, lead to black, [550], 33
Life, a bark against the tide, [242], 14;
a battle and a march, [263], 10;
a becoming, [462], 14;
a blessed, [470], 3;
a blossoming and a withering, [62], 16;
a chamber being frescoed with colours, [339], 39;
a conscious half, impossible, [303], 16;
a constant want, [163], 23;
a faint link between us and our hereafter, [29], 62;
a galling load, [321], 15;
a good, time enough for, [32], 30;
a greeting and a parting, [265], 36;
a happy and an unhappy, equalised, [390], 21;
a heroic, [434], 37;
a higher, how to earn, [522], 25;
a law of, [443], 9;
as led, a riddle, [538], 20;
a little gleam of time, [332], 48;
a loathed, compared with death, [461], 45;
a long sigh, [320], 15;
a long, the secret of, [568], 1;
a merry, how to live, [556], 31;
a mistake about, [409], 19;
a mystery, [547], 26;
a new, beginning of, [526], 3;
a new, with every budding bosom, [109], 32;
a, not worth living, [166], 19;
a peaceful, how to ensure, [492], 42;
a progress, [266], 41; a pure and true, how to attain, [384], 38;
a quiet, specific for, [275], 34;
a reality, and all one has, [481], 13;
a really long, [413], 38;
a rule in, [212], 7; [311], 2;
a satisfied, [380], 61;
a school, [310], 36;
a sign of, [183], 31;
a simple, benefit of, [286], 27;
a state of endurance, [163], 24;
a steady self-control, [266], 45;
a stern reality, [266], 46;
a short, advantage of, [453], 25;
a useless, [23], 45;
a voyage under sealed orders, [284], 19;
a well-written, rare, [24], 55;
a wise, [516], 53;
according to nature or opinion, [389], 46;
ascent of green mountain of, [266], 3;
advancing in, [144], 48;
aim of, [415], 46;
all a cheat, [543], 41;
all, as death, [399], 46;
always a hope, [527], 22;
amid doubt, [538], 2;
among men, [16], 53;
among men, breaking or hardening, [177], 4;
an abortive, Young on the course of, [22], 15;
an ever-vanishing present, [266], 44;
an obscure, [311], 4;
and art, difference of, [84], 41;
and death, [464], 4;
and death, a contrast, [329], 32;
and death according to law, [94], 42;
and death, not complete, [488], 31;
and time, [485], 11;
apart from world, [144], 30;
as a study, interesting, [350], 6;
at all, a miracle, [403], 3;
at beginning and end, [467], 7;
at different ages, [22], 16;
awful and wonderful, [55], 47;
bartered away, [522], 30;
based on time, [339], 40;
best and safest course of, [449], 37;
between duty and desire, [439], 18;
bodying forth of the invisible, [266], 11;
Bolingbroke on, [476], 32;
book of, interpreter of, [538], 4;
brevity of, [262], 32;
brighter the longer, [249], 35;
Burns' apostrophe to, [335], 53;
by medical prescription, [363], 42;
Calderon on, [362], 33;
charms of, that we never knew, [320], 14;
cheap, and bread dear, [320], 30;
Christian, Pascal on, [241], 21;
compared with hope, [228], 14;
complaints of, unjust, [545], 4;
complete from the first, [26], 57;
condensing lesson of, in pointed sentence, [448], 39;
condition of art of, [395], 38;
corner-stone of body, [421], 36;
daily, harvest of, [458], 45;
daily, instructiveness of, [52], 33;
defined, [434], 40; 536, [26], 27;
dependent on "No," 300, 37;
dependent upon death, [403], 14;
described, [537], 1;
detachment from, gradual, [265], 6;
drama of, spectators of, [191], 39;
dreary, its cause, [537], 37;
each man's, dark to him, [404], 53;
elaborate preparation for, folly of, [494], 20;
epitome of many a man's, [292], 46;
essential furniture of, whence imported, [231], 51;
elements of a complete, [221], 9;
evanescence of, [537], 25;
every condition in, value of, [212], 15;
every period, its prejudices and temptations, [93], 44, 45;
every time of, has its care and burden, [327], 41;
everywhere romantic, [90], 55; experience of, Burns', [554], 44;
farewell of a Greek to, [210], 12;
fateful stages in, [147], 12;
first lesson of, [428], 24, 25;
first, lived well, [413], 45;
folly of wasting, [154], 16;
fondness and carelessness of, [475], 41;
for action, [3], 51;
for a single day, [363], 14;
fraction of, how to increase, [429], 23;
fresh only from the soul, [84], 42;
full of stumbling-blocks, [64], 21;
gift and ministry of, contrasted, [493], 16;
glorious, crowded hour of, [400], 24;
God's highest gift, [434], 40;
golden moments in, lost, [430], 34;
great art of, [493], 24;
great moments of, but moments, [431], 29;
greatest ornament of an illustrious, [432], 33;
greed of, [516], 22;
half wasted, [457], 11;
hampered by itself, [3], 8;
high, people in, [187], 26;
highest maxims of, to be respected, [333], 17;
his, was gentle, [157], 5; how man spends, [265], 40;
here only once, [264], 36;
how rendered miserable, [227], 13;
how rounded off, [522], 18;
how ruled, [201], 48; how shaped, [548], 21;
how to achieve, [567], 8, 9;
how to extend, [14], 7;
how to husband and not waste, [526], 37;
how to know, [493], 35;
how to make sweet, [173], 17;
how to quit, [179], 32;
how to take a, [567], 30;
how to write a worthy, [8], 30;
how we take, main point, [125], 14;
ignorance of, [441], 4;
in, no present, [187], 45;
in the morning of youth, [321], 14;
in the present, a secret, [20], 54;
in the straitest circumstances, if wise and loyal-hearted, [160], 53;
in the world, and beyond, [524], 5;
inevitable condition of, [562], 43;
inner genial, effect of kindling, [68], 3;
instinct to protect and cherish, [434], 40;
its autumn and spring, [528], 15;
its healthfulness, [460], 6;
its joys and sorrows, Browning on, [141], 41;
known to few, [79], 17;
laughing at and grinning at, [203], 8;
learning from, [448], 39;
length of, effect of, [439], 32, 33;
like travelling, [288], 12;
long, desire of, [91], 51;
long, together, suggestiveness of, [496], 24;
longer than misfortune, [32], 34;
longest, shortness of, [439], 36;
loom of, and patterns it weaves, [439], 40;
lost in getting a living, [473], 28;
lost, irretrievable, [80], 6;
lottery of, [418], 33;
made strait on purpose, [404], 39;
made up of deception and art, [45], 56;
main thing regarding, [310], 31;
man's, a kind of beast-godhood, [535], 35;
memory of a well-spent, [32], 32;
mode of, seldom our own choosing, [467], 2;
moments of, fatal or fated, [403], 25;
more significant than words, [85], 21;
more than breathing, [161], 12;
more than meat, [438], 48;
more than meat and clothing, [409], 25;
mostly from hand to mouth, [105], 11;
never stainless, [302], 33;
no dream, [338], 25;
no fraction of, to be sold, [484], 3;
no longer on old lines, [230], 17;
no pastime, [526], 26;
no, without perplexity, [395], 35;
not to be bartered, [272], 25;
not judged, before death, [214], 9;
not to be trifled with, [57], 5;
nobility of, [445], 2;
noble, eternal in its action, [93], 3;
nothing that has, perfect, [316], 42;
obscure, not therefore worthless, [289], 26;
of man, collective, [205], 19;
of poor and rich, small difference between, [448], 28;
on moderate means, [182], 2;
one's own, sacred, [75], 19;
only a hope, [317], 14;
ordained law of, [206], 22;
our, a thousand-stringed harp, [338], 23;
our chief want in, [337], 25;
our, control over, limited, [340], 22;
our first ideas of, [338], 2;
our, a mutual hostility, [338], 26;
our mode of, characterised, [339], 9;
our, not what it might be, [338], 27, 28;
our true, [64], 16;
our waste of, [529], 39;
our whole daily, of spirit birth, [395], 24;
out of the ruins of life, [53], 24;
outward details of, insignificance of, [534], 6;
past, and help that lies in it, [230], 31;
pathos and sublime of, [494], 18;
peaceable, commended, [173], 8;
perfect, attribute of, [345], 49;
perfected in death, [220], 19;
postponing, [364], 34; power of fortune over, [163], 25;
primitive and frontier, advantage of, [208], 40;
problem of, [449], 29;
prospective, [520], 39;
purpose of, [521], 26;
query regarding purpose of, [520], 17;
quiet continuity of, [366], 21;
ragged line of, [439], 18;
reality of, without fancy, [442], 7;
resignation of, motive for, [480], 15;
rising on life, [509], 15;
river of, and its ferries, [524], 23;
river of, how to drink out of, [566], 23;
rule of, [182], 27; [237], 3; [519], 14;
ruled by fortune, [516], 29;
saved, by losing it, [554], 42;
sacrificed to reasoning about it, [550], 24;
sayings about, [54], 12-18; 517, [1], 2;
scorn of, revered, [209], 50;
secrets of, how revealed, [453], 4;
servile to skyey influences, [172], 35;
severe condition of knowing, [505], 9;
shadow-hunting or shadow-hunted, [550], 4;
Shakespearean rules of, [253], 40;
significance of, [453], 34;
signs of, [184], 40;
simple, happiness of, [26], 10;
simplicity of, gain in, [189], 20;
sincere, required, [100], 13;
sojourn in an inn, [98], 15;
source of its value, [371], 2;
sporting with, [551], 33;
state of, alone suitable for a man, [414], 10;
still beautiful, [320], 31;
struggle of, question of, [191], 40;
stuff to try soul's strength, [165], 34;
subordinate to something higher, [265], 25;
sunshine of, [456], 24;
tediousness of, [407], 34;
text and commentary, [428], 18;

that is merely breathing, [153], 8;
that
we praise, [43], 22;
the chief condition of, [224], 30;
the dearer, the longer, [443], 23;
the course of, destructive, [569], 24;
the cup of, to be drunk, [422], 24;
the dark spot in, [11], 39;
the end of a man's, [52], 32;
the end of, Sophocles on, [336], 53;
the essence of, [200], 22;
the first problem in, [428], 32;
the fluctuations of, [94], 42;
the fountain of, [217], 34;
the fruition of, [429], 31;
the fullest, [528], 25;
the gate and way to, [403], 23;
the great felicity in, [431], 20;
the happiest, [83], 45;
the interpreter of, [334], 45;
the lot of, [94], 42;
the longest half of, [251], 50;
the meaning of, [338], 34;
the noblest, [144], 32;
the observation of, [448], 39;
the one meaning of, [256], 38;
the only sign of, [533], 33;
the only wealth, [474], 44;
the price of, life, [179], 28;
the stuff of, [487], 7;
the sure way to, [215], 28;
the true, of man, [458], 51;
the true question in, [95], 11;
the use of, [537], 20;
the way of, its secrets, [64], 21;
the web of, [462], 2;
the, which renews a man, [439], 8;
things essential to, [468], 26;
three epochs in, [467], 8;
time's fool, [33], 29;
to be believed before book, [165], 20;
to be enjoyed as it passes, [503], 4;
to be in the whole, [18], 51;
to be still prayed for, [300], 5;
to genius, [492], 37;
to happy and unhappy, [433], 16;
to miserable and to happy, [321], 13, 15;
transitions of, [517], 24;
tree of, ever green, [132], 42;
true beginning of, [205], 30;
true enjoyment of, [197], 14;
true, how to live a, [503], 7;
time of, to be wise, [179], 15;
two ways out of, [23], 40;
uncertainty in, source of, [205], 48;
under a poor roof, [117], 10;
up and down tendencies of, [186], 37;
use we may make of, [522], 37;
waste of, [365], 26;
wasted, [269], 20;
waves of, and strand of death, [452], 15;
way of, [516], 26;
way of, in sere yellow leaf, [288], 25;
web of, heaven-woven, [79], 13;
what has, power of, [531], 41;
what it consists of, [525], 24;
what makes, poor, [204], 27;
what survives wreck of, [191], 31;
while digestion lasts, [550], 14;
who would love, [148], 52;
wilderness of, springs in, [191], 26;
wisdom of, [244], 7; [462], 27;
with art and deception, [566], 24;
with its enmities, to be faced, [60], 31;
with some, like a sleigh-drive, [558], 45;
without a purpose, [516], 21;
without God, [559], 22;
without hope, [335], 17;
without labour, [300], 4;
without learning, [516], 20;
without love, [249], 28;
without self-denial, [133], 39;
without superior, inferior, or equal, [493], 10;
without use to others, [536], 34;
without women, [33], 9; [538], 32;
woven of old and new, [10], 3;
woven of wind, [316], 50;
wrecked, cause of, [385], 35
Life's, blessings, how taught to value, [458], 3;
end, [255], 3;
rewards, [255], 5;
wealth, [255], 5;
young day, love of, [168], 48
Light, a curtain, [439], 10;
a ray of, when seen, [450], 36;
and fire, [197], 18;
and shadow, [560], 14;
by which we see, [439], 9;
by whom shunned, [311], 37;
dry, [439], 14;
dry, best, [73], 26;
for the million, [508], 1;
in a clear breast, [146], 32;
in darkness, [439], 13;
in nature and man, [417], 21;
indispensability of, [105], 51;
intense, beautifying effect of, [473], 35;
loving, hating, [146], 5, 6;
new, burst of a, to the unprepared heart, [419], 19;
new, distrusted, [545], 44;
new, dread of, [89], 54;
new, elevating power of, [89], 54;
new, spiritual, effect on soul of, [70], 8;
no, without eyes, [559], 32;
our boast of, [522], 31;
perfect, how to attain, [439], 12;
perfect, too dazzling, [346], 1;
self-evident, [330], 11;
shadow of God, [502], 8;
sovereign in the physical world, [246], 1;
spiritual, and its source, [116], 33;
spiritual, never entirely extinguishable, [303], 8;
the true, defined, [413], 32;
too much, effect of, [548], 48;
which we reject, [439], 15
Light, and heavy, different fortunes of, [235], 27;
things compared, [288], 23
Light-minded men, improvident, [244], 32
Lightning, and thunder, God's harbingers, [249], 30;
as an alternative, [249], 22;
heaven's (in a man), not to be caressed, [332], 7;
in the collied night, [32], 40;
spiritual, [439], 15, 16;
to godlike and godless men, [128], 18
Lights, broken, and shapes, [243], 8
Like, not look upon his, again, [149], 21;
to like, [9], 30; [19], 39; [39], 28; [124], 8; [489], 20
Like-minded and of unlike-minded, the fortunes of, [345], 7
Likeness, family, [101], 35;
in nature more than difference, [75], 3
Liking, power of, [498], 53
Likings, a man's, a test of him, [411], 39;
significance of our, [539], 32
Lilies, the, consider, [46], 50
Limbs, too large, a weakness, [202], 39
Limit, the real definition of a thing, [21], 35;
to progress, [87], 26
Limits, every man has, [304], 17
Line, a straight, in morals, [20], 61;
crooked and straight, [205], 8
Linen, dirty, to be washed at home, [179], 27
Link, importance of a, [332], 49
Linnæus, the sexual system of, [517], 3
Linnet's song, feeling that inspires, [553], 3
Lion, not asleep, though silent, [52], 28;
or sheep, as commander, [200], 28
Lion's share, [78], 8
Lions with stag for leader, [112], 35
Lips, that give a right answer, [92], 26;
to be guarded as palace doors, [131], 12
Listener, a good, rare, [208], 22;
a good, worth listening to, [89], 7
Listening, at keyhole, [85], 23;
the faculty of, [426], 47;
to some more pleasant than talking, [533], 14
Literary, ages, taste of all, [477], 21;
career, a thorny path, [224], 25;
composition to be kept nine years, [244], 9;
man, the true, [458], 52;
men of the present, [187], 47;
work, characteristic of, [530], 9
Literature, a discovery to be made in, [469], 40;
a noble profession, [168], 8;
a silent, [262], 24;
a talent for, a snare, [409], 42;
a, when classical, [302], 46;
and humanity, [523], 37;
compared with the conversation of a grandly simple soul, [47], 48;
decline of, as a sign, [422], 45;
done for money, Ruskin on, [540], 40;
false, [564], 1;
first lesson of, [428], 25;
glorious doom of, [206], 16;
highest problem of, [435], 8;
how concocted, [185], 17;
its, test of a nation, [541], 20;
life in, [206], 23;
modern, minus its metaphysics, [175], 36;
modern, temporary nature of, [284], 25;
on oatmeal, [523], 21;
our esteem for, [338], 16;
proper task of, [449], 44;
sentimental, inferiority of, [387], 4;
what one wants in, [207], 2
Litigant unlike the goose, [439], 21
Litigation, misery of long, [117], 21
Little, beings, aspirations of, [91], 40;
managing a, merit in, [203], 26;
minds, and the faith of great ones, [99], 57;
the infinitely, pride of, [436], 33;
the, to be done well, [72], 15;
things, power of, [317], 37;
things, running after, [483], 15;
treatment of, a spiritual sign, [54], 11;
who cannot live upon, [387], 34
Littleness, as wonderful as vastness, [539], 27
Live, happily, how men 190, 31;
knowing how to, enough, [20], 30;
let us, to-day, [158], 18;
to, how, alone, [472], 6;
to, to dream, [237], 5
Lived, what has, immortality of, [508], 30
Livelihood, struggle for mere, debasing, [179], 17
Lives, English, worth reading, [467], 29;
lost in change of purpose, [269], 42;
of the best, [439], 27;
our, how we spend, [520], 34;
reading, but not leading, [565], 12;
the finest, [427], 42;
wrecked, cause of, [207], 5
Lives, one who, for others, [551], 6;
one who, for self, [551], 6
Living, a thing deferred, [513], 24;
above one's means, [441], 21;
after one's own opinion or the world's, [201], 24;
alone, no reason to fear, [555], 25;
and dead, now to treat, [158], 22;
and dead, the partition between, [533], 41;
and living dishonoured, [200], 13;
and out-living, [200], 12;
and thinking, contrasted, [40], 12;
art of, like every other, [416], 21;
as angels, [48], 40;
being, mistake in professed study of, [532], 38;
cheap, [559], 1;
corked up for ever, [478], 17;
defined, [516], 44, 45;
earning a, without living, [441], 5;
for eternity, hard, [161], 28;
for others contrasted with living for self, [151], 35;
for self or for others, [149], 43;
greatly, test of, [333], 15;
happily, defined, [494], 6;
how to get a, [567], 7;
long, sorrow in, [229], 35;
man, test of a, [395], 8;
mere, good, [161], 22;
once, never lost, [316], 40;
one day, insignificance of, [176], 47;
right of, [60], 29;
rule of, [113], 22;
rules of, Dr. Johnson's, [353], 47;
sayings about, [494], 5-10;
secret of, [453], 1;
so long as life, [395], 5;
the, compared with the dead, [10], 36;
the respect due to, [329], 29;
to no purpose, [151], 36;
twice, [109], 50; [158], 3;
ways of getting a, [461], 36;
well, [28], 8;
well, our main duty, [311], 53;
well, no man's concern, [295], 22
Loan, a double loss, [110], 14
Lochaber no more, [102], 23
Lock and key, a security, [168], 39
Lodge, oh, for a, in some vast wilderness, [325], 51
Loftiest of the race, the, characteristic of, [439], 30;
mortal, and his desires, [439], 29
Logic as compared with ethics, [88], 10
Logician, the best, [433], 41
Loneliness, extreme of, [395], 7;
man's, inexplicable, [161], 33;
the best, [417], 45
Longevity a sign of purity, [153], 37
Longing, vain, [525], 27-29, 31
Longwindedness, evil of, [237], 31
Look on't again I dare not, [164], 30
Looking, at the best side, habit of, [433], 2;
not therefore seeing, [2], 38;
not thinking, [333], 31
Looks, others', significance of, [469], 19
Loquacity, where to learn, [332], 45
Lord, good, good animal, [184], 12;
great, service under, [393], 4;
sayings about the, [439], 42-45;
the, eyes of, [426], 42;
the, fear of, [487], 32;
the, no counsel against, [474], 46;
the, sure to come, [174], 24;
what He requires of us, [535], 5;
when to seek, [385], 5
Lord's, blessings, on whom bestowed, [439], 41;
Prayer, Napoleon on, [72], 46
Lordship, conquest, [155], 31;
jealous of fellowship, [253], 45
Loss, first step to repair, [415], 32;
sometimes better than gain, [87], 10;
the smallest, not to be slighted, [394], 3
Losses, accustomed, [52], 41;
and crosses, lessons from, [484], 20;
comparative, [128], 23; [137], 34;
great and little, effect of, [350], 30;
relative value of, [151], 38
Lost, all is not, [539], 10;
sought in every cranny but the right, [111], 27;
the, valued, [110], 8
Lot, one's, matter of discontent, [318], 8;
our, how to estimate, [260], 37;
our, to be followed, [538], 31;
the, its disposal, [439], 47
Louis XIV., Boileau of, [337], 4;
kept waiting for his carriage, [209], 33;
of his wife, [233], 1
Louis XVI., Tilly on, [253], 37
Lovable, the, and the ridiculous, congruity of, [105], 8
Love, a contrast, [172], 21;
a cruel tyrant, [102], 1;
a dream, [247], 18;
a falling from, [549], 32;
as fulfilling the law, Professor Blackie on, [295], 24;
as our one debt, [340], 28;
a power divine, [314], 32;
as reconciler of things, [285], 26;
a rule of, [546], 37;
as seasoning, [504], 25;
a standard, [19], 63;
a warfare, [279], 24;
a wonderful, [486], 4;
accompaniment of, [27], 24;
all-comprehensiveness of, [256], 12;
all-hallowing, [74], 37;
always at first sight, [551], 15;
an impulse to help, [161], 4;
and admiration, [525], 34;
and ambition, wings, [258], 6;
and bickering, [482], 24;
and duty, inseparable, [474], 3;
and esteem, never sold, [214], 14;
and fear, connected, [471], 31;
and God, [189], 58;
and jealousy, [211], 33, 34, [36], 37, 40; [548], 10;
and labour, effect of, [127], 16;
and prudence, ill-matched pair, [359], 19;
and wisdom incompatible, [13], 8;
and reverence, objects respectively of, [110], 21;
as a bond, [124], 9;
as an educator, [492], 51;
as a gift of heaven, [477], 48,
as a present, [383], 20;
as a teacher, [320], 19;
as obligation, [506], 13;
ascetic, [120], 27;
at moment of parting, [487], 18;
at sight, [33], 30;
attended by memory, [479], 25;
attraction of, its law, [146], 36;
based on equality, [84], 13;
before rejection, [243], 35;
blessedness of unbroken, [104], 17;
blind, [25], 9;
burden of, [249], 19;
Christian, [257], 2;
common as light, [45], 10;
compared with admiration, [4], 33;
compared with friendship, [114], 49;
compared with hatred, [141], 21;
compared with passion, [65], 21;
compared with severity and justice, [285], 13;
composition of, [130], 12;
condition of, [556], 29;
contrasted with admiration, [63], 54;
cooling, effect of, [544], 13, 14;
courage in, [104], 25;
course of true, [109], 19;
credulous, [49], 51;
cruel power of, [183], 54;
daring of, [537], 34;
deep as the sea, [287], 41;
defined, [546], 4;
delight of, in tormenting, [17], 36;
described, [11], 44;
determining power of, [480], 39;
different kinds of, [34], 43;
direst disaster in, [476], 27;
disappointed, poison of, [218], 27;
discovery of estranged, [475], 5;
divine, described, [70], 70;

divine power of, [424], 6;
doubt of, [72], 20, 27;
early, yearning after, [320], 18;
educative power of, [222], 11, 14;
effect of, on man, [11], 51;
effect of absence on, [221], 44;
effect of different kinds of, [319], 3;
effect of, on life, [85], 14;
effect of looks on, [253], 15;
effect of, on a man's thinking, [543], 15;
effect of, on broken hearts, [498], 8;
effect of, on temper, [74], 15;
effect of time on, [487], 18;
effect on partisanship, [141], 13;
end of existence, [312], 30;
endures no tie, [108], 34;
enjoyed, [122], 23;
ennobling power of, [25], 59;
enslaving, [419], 27;
entire, a worship, [83], 44;
essential to intelligence, [202], 31;
everywhere, [190], 20;
evil of want of, [548], 44;
excess of, deprecated, [321], 18;
excessive, to be avoided, [15], 48;
excitement of, [187], 52;
expanding power of, [542], 11;
fate of, [568], 40;
first, alone infinite, [75], 9;
first consciousness of, [475], 21;
first, recurrence to, [331], 2;
first sigh of, [234], 36;
following or fleeing, [108], 10;
forced, [101], 53;
forced, not lasting, [112], 7;
genesis of, hard to date, [201], 9;
gifts of, [511], 24;
God's training of, [125], 45;
greatest miracle of, [432], 24;
happiness in, [242], 5;
heaven-revealing power of, [173], 3;
honoured, and why, [9], 65;
hope in, spite of reason, [311], 42;
hottest, [432], 12;
how kept out, [135], 10;
how to be won, [73], 53;
how to reap in, [175], 20;
idleness, [364], 15;
ignorant of, [144], 15;
impossible to conceal or express, [172], 45;
impossible to Mephistopheles, [86], 38;
indefinable by language, [399], 35;
indefinable to a true lover, [144], 26;
in man and in woman, [352], 33;
in the heart, a spur, [41], 27;
in the purest sense, [469], 10;
incompatible with dignity, [68], 6;
intelligence of, [116], 23;
invincible, [534], 24;
its coming and going, [222], 15;
killing joy, [384], 39;
lad's, saying about, [229], 9;
life, [488], 15;
magic power of, [440], 13;
master of all arts, [69], 53;
might of, [279], 13;
miraculous power of, [325], 34;
moderation in, commended, [31], 58;
money powerless to buy, [457], 9;
mystic art of, [326], 5;
no cure for, [271], 33;
no explaining, [527], 19;
no fear in, [472], 37;
no habitant
of earth, [326], 6;
no, lost, [19], 12;
no, no true pain, [144], 43;
no reason for, [308], 51;
no retreat from, [537], 8;
no struggling against, [178], 54;
no, without love, [241], 48;
not binding lover, [172], 41;
not perfect in, [146], 13;
not the sole, or even chief object of any, [294], 50;
not to be scorned, [383], 20;
not to be spoken of with scorn, [296], 66;
of a father, [103], 8;
of God, no falling out of, [217], 1;
old and new, [489], 11;
old, changing, for new, [479], 38;
old-fashioned, dead, [330], 2;
one thing needful, [414], 35;
one's first, [88], 23;
only known to mother, [319], 18;
only victory over, [446], 25;
our first, [527], 23;
our, to others, [525], 31;
pain of, a mystery, [212], 5;
pain from, [72], 32;
pains of, [340], 46;
pangs in, many, [251], 46;
partiality of, [269], 27;
passion of, effect of, on the tongue, [545], 27;
perfect, sayings about, [346], 2-4;
power of, [64], 11; [319], 27; [325], 34; [457], 25; [525], 20; [558], 30;
power of, on fools and clever people, [226], 36;
power of, over hatred, [141], 17;
power of, over sorrow, [86], 34;
power of, over the gods, [544], 15;
power of, in poet, [296], 19;
prevalency of, [524], 19;
principle of, [521], 2;
pure, might of, [360], 7;
rapture and pain of, [221], 40;
reconciling power of, [268], 16;
reflects thing beloved, [165], 23;
relieving power of, [27], 29;
risk of forswearing, [382], 10;
room enough everywhere for, [368], 39;
satisfying, [237], 22;
sayings about, [13], 56-67; [14], 3; [65], 22-25; [187], 50-53; [246], 5-12; [494], 13-16;
season, the, [440], 3;
separated in life, [504], 29;
sigh of, [555], 9;
sorrowing after hope, [479], 25;
specific against, [37], 31;
strength of, [403], 19; [404], 10;
successful, [405], 41;
sudden, [406], 2;
suppressing, [407], 22;
sympathy of, blessing in, [483], 34;
test of, [539], 44;
test of citizenship, [240], 42;
test of power of, [66], 25;
that can be reckoned, [478], 1;
that descends, [440], 6;
that lets itself be known, [479], 12;
the best, [482], 46;
the centre of, [78], 13;
the chaste blossom of, [391], 37;
the deceptive power of, [329], 33;
the double bliss in, [320], 17;
the faith of, [218], 22;
the fire of, not quenchable by words, [484], 4;
the first, [428], 26;
the first sigh of, [428], 35;
the heart's romance, [222], 13;
the hottest, [435], 33;
the key to vision, [265], 7;
the monstrosity in, [481], 46;
the offer or refusal of, [302], 48;
the only equaliser, [119], 27;
the point of, [427], 3;
the range of, [381], 38;
the rights of, [527], 42;
the true season of, [413], 33;
the truth about, [537], 7;
the universal sway of, [222], 20;
those who can animate, [335], 20;
thy, seek not to tell, [296], 61;
to be paid in love, [128], 28;
to be yielded to, [328], 35;
to doubt, [491], 47;
to God, condition of, [371], 40;
to project itself as an arrow, [47], 52;
to reason about, [367], 49;
transposing power of, [480], 38;
true, [413], 34; [500], 17-22;
true, unconcealable, [80], 14;
true, course of, [422], 1;
true, ever the same, [54], 8;
true, not to be hid, [544], 46;
true, sweet, [408], 25;
typified by colour, [44], 32;
unconcealable, [290], 31;
universal, described, [507], 36;
unquenchable, [270], 4;
unquenchable by words, [63], 43;
unwisely directed, [528], 17;
versus wealth, [208], 4;
waywardness of, [106], 4;
who shuts out, [552], 31;
when deep, [83], 57;
when ripening, [377], 25;
when satisfied, [7], 58;
who alone obtain, [482], 37;
who hath, in his heart, [554], 14;
who knows, [552], 8;
wise in, advice to, [550], 34;
without esteem, [19], 52
Love's young dream, [478], 28
Love-letter, how to write good, [497], 5
Loved, and lost, to have, [487], 54;
how to be wholly, [490], 45;
not lost, [176], 3;
not wisely, but too well, [400], 48
Lover, a, for everything, [75], 21;
accepted and betrothed, [415], 30;
engaged in war, [279], 23;
fine trait in character of, [198], 12;
loved, [9], 56;
no deceiving, [366], 28;
senses of, [537], 7;
the desire of, [452], 28;
unconscious of space and time, [402], 3;
sayings about, [440], 4, 5
Lover's, doubts and suspicions, misery of a, [33], 21;
the, privilege, [495], 33
Lovers, easily entertained, [85], 19;
never tire of each other, [537], 35;
self-tormentors, [161], 10;
the perjuries of, and Jupiter, [346], 26;
two, a spectacle for gods, [79], 34
Lovers', eyes, sharpness of, [110], 16;
memories, [273], 5;
quarrels, [13], 5;
tongues, silver sweet, [162], 33
Loving, a heaven-soaring wing, [41], 6;
and being loved, [531], 20;
and hating, alike without reason, [329], 16;
and losing, [200], 30;
believing, [41], 5;
daring, [419], 11;
fearing, [41], 7;
or not loving, effect of both alike, [533], 35;
pain of, [460], 31;
pleasure in, [472], 3;
too much, [39], 14
Low man, the, a success, [482], 4
Lowest, from, a path to highest, [116], 27;
the, to be borne with, [375], 29
Lowly soul, blessed, [403], 8
Loyalty to country sacred, [242], 2
Lucifer, the sin of, [428], 36
Luck, believers in, [388], 25;
good, [129], 44-46;
good, applied energy, [17], 12;
good, too much, [569], 33;
inspires pluck, [124], 35;
the power of, [55], 21
Lucky, a, man, [348], 47
Ludlam's dog, [232], 34
Luminaries, intellectual, at their brightest, [508], 8
Lust, contra sted with nature, [291], 38;
degrading power of, Sallust on, [286], 8
Lustre, no, without light, [473], 17
Lute, little rift in, [206], 24
Luther, at the Diet of Worms, [156], 26; [531], 2;
on his way to Worms, [533], 12
Luxuries, most, harmful, [284], 29
Luxury, and avarice, compared, [258], 11;
compared with poverty, [354], 35;
fatal to kingdoms, [331], 15;
peril of, [104], 26
Lying, accusation of, [489], 25; as vice, [31], 50;
cowardly, [246], 4;
habit of, [433], 3;
its beginning and end, [84], 19;
only for tradesmen, [241], 31;
the meanness of, [387], 35;
the price of, [429], 41
Lyre, a welcome, at banquet, [56], 16;
the, winged, [315], 35;
with voice and flute, compared, [429], 3
Lyrics, to be sung, [239], 31
M
Machine, the model, [264], 5
Machinery, does not feed men, [294], 44;
indispensability of, [140], 40;
ruinous effect of, [11], 43
Macpherson under the gallows, [379], 18
Mad, all, once, [386], 22;
with all rather than alone, [29], 22
Madam, and moon, light of, borrowed, [114], 16
Madding crowd's ignoble strife, far from, [102], 10
Madman, a, according to Schiller, [143], 6;
a sort of dreamer, [424], 20;
belief of every, [194], 46;
in the eye of law, [117], 44, 45
Madmen, all, [234], 16; worst of, [465], 31
Madness, a germ of, in all, [190], 14;
common calamity, [170], 16;
defined, [542], 15;
fine, of the poet, [111], 10;
how induced, [314], 20;
in the dullest, [190], 26;
method in, [484], 31;
pleasure in, [470], 18;
tendency to, even in wisest, [186], 43;
the element of, [81], 34
Magdalen, thrusting, into the pit, [553], 30
Magistracy, bought, justice by, [145], 23
Magistrates, function of, [237], 20
Magnanimity, meaning of, [490], 27
Mahomet, and the mountain, [174], 25;
compared with Moses, [284], 10
Maid, love for a, moral power of, [305], 20
Maiden, a, how to win, [563], 27;
a tender thing, [248], 47;
in new clothes, [241], 43;
qualities we love in, [525], 30;
simple, in her flower, [19], 31;
the, to love, [499], 4;
when her heart is stolen, [544], 40
Maiden's reserve, her security, [306], 28
Maidens to be praised, [114], 14
Majesty, attribute of kings, [80], 22;
incompatible with love, [308], 55
Majority, a clear, [333], 33;
appeal to, against reason, [315], 28;
going by, [524], 14;
the, opinions of, [440], 15;
the, what, [537], 17;
two that make a, [331], 36; [333], 33;
voice of, no proof, [461], 8;
voice of, on any high matter, [441], 33
Maladies, cure for all, [562], 42;
desperate, remedies for, [24], 28;
our spiritual, source of, [339], 21
Malcontent, political, described, [12], 11
Male appointed to rule, [73], 39
Malice, to be despised, [527], 28
Malignity, no pure, [474], 7;
unjustifiable, [466], 44
Mammon, great, [133], 49; p
ower of, [259], 45
Man, a, a man, [539], 7;
a, and his faults, [516], 24;
a, assailed, [159], 4;
a, at his worst, how to judge of, [528], 22;
a bad, no association with, [304], 42;
a bad, never amusing, [334], 3;
a born worshipper, [261], 45;
a communicative, Swift's dread of, [307], 43;
a, composition of, [187], 35;
a, counterfeit of, [143], 24;
a, described, [143], 7;
a, distinguishing mark of, [28], 9;
a, dread power, [352], 17;
a drowning, [42], 27;
a fighter, [169], 39;
a great and good, [142], 58;
a happy, [140], 21; [166], 2;
a hard, [143], 3;
a, his nature, [12], 10;
a, how he finds himself, [305], 41;
a, how interpreted, [556], 33;
a, knowing, difficult, [208], 12;
a microcosm, [473], 18;
a minnow, in the All, [496], 10;
a moving temple of God, [90], 7;
a mystery, [522], 23;
a, no concealing, [161], 2;
a, not wretched, [34], 48;
a, one with his native soil, [331], 41;
a, stimulating effect of sight of, [22], 14;
a real, [241], 45;
a reed that thinks, [233], 27;
a, rich in himself, [190], 6;
a, rated at his own value, [224], 8;
a sad, [143], 3;
a social animal, [16], 3;
a stately edifice, [535], 27;
a strong, [12], 9; [143], 10;
a subject of study, [467], 4;
a symbol of God, [459], 41; [536], 28;
a, to meet, [164], 32;
a, touchstone of, [34], 42;
a well-bred, [24], 52;
a, what best becomes, [170], 21;
a whole number, [11], 61;
a wilful, [24], 57;
a wise, according to Epictetus, [143], 14;
a wise, according to the Hitopadesa, [143], 15;
a wise, according to Xenophon, [143], 16;
a, worth of, [204], 42;
ability of, [537], 46;
affected by time, [240], 13;
after God's or another's pattern, [200], 14;
aim of, compared with woman's, [288], 44;
akin to God in spirit, [173], 19;
all a prey to, [314], 27;
all-relatedness of, [476], 9;
all the sphere, [314], 27;
an actor in a drama, [373], 5;

an exception, [464], 30;
an individual, mature fruit of time, [15], 40;
an interest to man, [473], 19;
an inventor, [334], 46;
and animal, contrast between, [416], 9;
and ape, distinction between, [346], 30;
and beast, moral difference of, [443], 4;
and citizen, [440], 19;
and his age, inseparable, [11], 49;
and his circumstances, [440], 21;
and his defects, how to regard, [253], 1;
and his expression 440, 20;
and his God, [96], 50;
and his inseparable attendants, [566], 26;
and misery, twins, [109], 36;
and nature, distinction between, [424], 1;
and other animals, the distinction between, [202], 24;
and world, [464], 40;
angel as well as devil in, [174], 41;
apprentice to pain, [223], 24;
as a piece of work, [533], 36;
as great or small, [473], 16;
as his works, perishable, [35], 31;
as regards knowledge and practice, [162], 18;
as subject of art, [60], 19;
as weary and heavy laden, Carlyle's apostrophe to, [352], 41;
aspiring to be an angel, [223], 26;
assurance of a, [3], 19;
at the best, [550], 4;
attitude of, to truth and falsehood, [223], 21;
bad, the fair words of, [137], 53;
basest thought about, [416], 47;
below himself, [143], 21;
best served, [143], 22;
bachelor, betrothed, wedded, [25], 39;
by nature and art, [18], 45;
call no, happy before death, [241], 45;
central part in, [453], 12;
centre of all beauty and worth, [312], 35;
characteristic function of, [241], 25;
characteristic of, known only to God, [415], 3;
chief fault of, [60], 14;
child of nature, [26], 60;
compared to a clock, [44], 4;
contrasted with woman, [560], 45;
dear to man, [58], 22;
dear to the gods, [36], 18;
defined, [352], 19;
despised by world, [465], 4;
distinctive mark of, [489], 29;
distinguishing qualities of, [76], 54;
effect of favour and a fall on, [225], 18;
either god or devil, [159], 23;
either god or wolf, [159], 17;
end of, [425], 12, 13;
ever in need of man, [154], 17;
ever wrestler rather than believer, [84], 47;
either born king or fool, [24], 23;
every, a potential madman, [91], 49;
every, a quotation, [92], 12;
every, a reflex of the All, [92], 35;
every, a special vocation, [91], 28;
every, a suggestion, [92], 16;
every, at birth, [150], 29;
every, dupe to himself, [92], 15;
every, exceptional, [92], 14;
every, his own valuator, [92], 27;
every, knowledge of, special, [92], 20;
every, in a sense alone, [92], 19;
every, rule for, [240], 39;
every, to follow his own star, [212], 7;
every, when sick, [92], 13;
extraordinary, without root in life, [205], 43;
feeling one's self a, [217], 36;
final destiny of, [91], 29;
folly in, [471], 32;
folly of, in having and not using faculties, [126], 5;
foolishest thought about, [416], 47;
formed to be a husband, [291], 8;
free at first, [164], 35;
God in, [174], 19;
God in, a birth of faith, [100], 16;
god or devil, [367], 41;
God's creature, [93], 18;
God's proper treasure, [128], 34;
good, sign of a, [418], 15;
great, by conviction, [312], 32;
greatest, a son of man, [60], 6;
greatest crime of, [111], 17;
hard to persuade, [265], 10;
has a good and a bad angel, [92], 8;
has still all the faculties he ever had, [297], 6;
highest, brother to his contemporaries, [435], 2;
highest glory and highest disgrace of, [493], 40;
his body and soul, [159], 13;
his destiny, [482], 18;
his nature the rule for, [81], 27;
his own enemy, [91], 48;
his own portion, [12], 26;
his vitality, [461], 5;
how to estimate a, [370], 29; [505], 10;
how to know a, [177], 23; [493], 28;
how he knows himself, [334], 47;
how to influence a, [177], 45;
how to study, [495], 52;
human element in, [533], 45;
hungry, to be alone, [87], 32;
if alone, a terror to himself, [533], 13;
ignorant of himself, [316], 51;
ill to advise, [161], 34;
in a series, [521], 27;
immensity of his possibilities, [26], 62;
in contrast with nature, [291], 4;
in God's image, [125], 24;
in himself, [522], 11;
in his deed a precedent to man, [9], 68;
in his self-delusion, [119], 22;
in presence of Nature, [292], 23;
in prosperity, [90], 32;
in relation to his defects and talents, [12], 27;
in relation to instinct, [522], 26;
is what he is, [387], 48;
interest in, [163], 31;
is sincere, when alone, [91], 44;
just and resolute, Horace on, [216], 42;
key to every, [437], 27;
knowing, and men, different, [201], 18;
knowledge of, [437], 40;
known by his company, [312], 7;
known by what he honours, [389], 39;
left to his passions, [236], 44;
life of, a diary, [439], 3;
life of, how led, [488], 36;
life of, its course, [439], 4;
like Ulysses, [182], 30;
limit of evil in, [218], 13;
lord of himself, and his resources, rare, [151], 11;
lovable through his errors, [65], 6;
lowest, life of, [439], 7;
Luther's definition of a, [554], 8;
made for society, [521], 33;
master of his fate, [329], 34;
measured by his own standard, [278], 45;
most essential fact about, [443], 44;
nearest God, [143], 35;
new always in a new time, [444], 44;
no bad, happy, [295], 12;
no, born for himself, [295], 24;
no, born without faults, [289], 33;
no, but has his time, [473], 22;
no, compelled to be compelled, [218], 15;
no, entirely a devil, [303], 8;
no, extraordinary, without a mission, [212], 1;
no, friendless, [473], 20;
no longer a temple, [95], 10;
no, the man prayed for, [242], 3;
no, the one waited for, [58], 38;
no, wise at all moments, [295], 15;
no, wise by himself, [295], 25;
noble, attractive power of, [78], 43;
not easy to transplant, [313], 7;
not hindered by society, [396], 8;
not his own guide, [204], 6;
not men, God-made, [128], 4;
of celestial descent, [551], 34;
of decision, [441], 11;
of action, the chief concern of, [58], 32;
of genius and other men, difference between, [462], 7;
of genius, his view of things, [297], 21;
of genius, sayings about, [440], 23, 24;
of noble deeds, in trouble, misjudged, [208], 18;
of pluck, [477], 43;
of sound brain and his knowledge, [92], 20;
of the world, how to be, [413], 48;
oh for a, with heart, head, hand, [325], 52;
on the confines of two hostile empires, [95], 13;
one, with a higher wisdom, worth of, [332], 56;
of only one subject, [66], 44;
only point in regard to, [446], 13;
original, and the world, [464], 13; [465], 17
our obligations to, [527], 41;
only sleeping and feeding, [535], 38;
overwhelmed with misfortune, [374], 19;
part of a whole, [489], 7;
peculiarity of, [426], 4;
piped to by fortune, [20], 23;
Plato's definition of, [15], 24;
poor, if not raised above self, [507], 51;
power looked for in, [221], 29;
preacher to woman, [460], 43;
presence and passion of, [465], 17;
presence of absence of, a difference, [548], 11;
presumption of, rebuked, [125], 7;
proof of a, [204], 29;
proper study of man, [220], 2;
pure, in this world, [441], 10;
qualities to possess to make, [488], 14;
real science and study of man, [228], 20;
regarded as end of creation, [203], 17;
religiously viewed, [91], 46;
sayings about, [60], 32-38; [61], 1-13; [91], 44-55; [92], 1-44;
science of, obscure, [267], 30;
self-ruined, [127], 15;
separated from his circumstances, [371], 23;
small, surveying great, [19], 54;
something in, as yet unnamed, [178], 30;
something of all in every, [476], 40;
soul of the whole, [559], 15;
spirit of, indomitable, [504], 18;
strange contradictions in, [162], 16;
subject to his power, [12], 12;
summary history of, [261], 44;
substantiality in a, [443], 19;
taught only by himself, [146], 30;
test of, [489], 34;
that hath no music in him, [440], 31;
that stands by himself, [440], 33;
the, and the hour, [440], 29;
the arch-machine, [196], 14;
the beauty of, [65], 1;
the best, [289], 33;
the façade of a temple, [12], 11;
the fatal, [427], 16;
the first, significance of, [422], 11;
the foundations of, [429], 19;
the greatness of, how to comprehend, [339], 20;
the highest might of, [513], 10;
the knowledge of, price of, [491], 33;
the life of, [465], 19;
the life of, a journey, [439], 5;
the little, [439], 24;
the lot of, [52], 40;
the merely merry, [440], 38;
the merely serious, [440], 38;
the more universal, the greater, [210], 28;
the noble, with nobler, [439], 25;
the noblest function of, [53], 45;
the noblest, that ever lived, [483], 28;
the, of character, [440], 32;
the ordinary, happiness of, [446], 30;
the real, [450], 38;
the riddle of the world, [49], 40;
the shadow of, [292], 1;
the state of, [481], 47;
the state of, Wolsey on the, [102], 19;
the substantial, [479], 1;
the terrible, [117], 38;
the, that blushes, [440], 30;
the want of, [554], 46;
the wealth of a, [461], 40;
the, who cannot wonder, [441], 3;
the whole, of this new time, [554], 24;
the wisest, [14], 44;
the, without sense of his relation to things, [440], 35;
this was a, [157], 5;
threefold property of a, [449], 45;
to be obeyed, [464], 15;
to be saved from damnable error, [173], 32;
to free oppressed, [126], 9;
to what appointed, [33], 17;
treating a, with solemnity, effect of, [542], 12;
truly blest, [440], 39;
truly free, will and action of, [223], 30;
two things necessary to make a man, [544], 43;
weakness of, [267], 25;
well-ordered, independence of, [147], 27;
what exalts, [488], 33;
when God visits him, [127], 33;
when most God-like, [12], 8;
when one is a, [568], 39;
when quite destitute, [223], 25;
when reformer and when conservative, [522], 13;
when true, [173], 2;
when truly alive, [264], 26;
while living, necessary, [19], 50;
who always wins, [142], 6;
who bears rule, [153], 12;
who can call to-day his own, [140], 26;
who can define, [145], 9;
who cannot blush, [440], 41;
who cannot endure his own company, [441], 2;
who cannot laugh, [441], 1;
who cannot win a woman, [413], 47;
who depends on public recognition, [440], 42;
who does not fear death, [441], 6;
who does not think what he is doing, [528], 26;
who has no enemies, [441], 8;
who has only ancestry to boast of, [441], 9;
who is not passion's slave, [123], 16;
who knows not how to live, [441], 4;
who never decides, [441], 12; who never loved his kind, [554], 17;
who owes his bread solely to heaven, [140], 27;
who runs away, [14], 58;
who wavers in wavering times, [441], 11;
whom kings have most to fear, [153], 10;
whose mother has not inspired him with veneration, [507], 20;
whose soul is veiled by pair of glasses, [534], 42;
why no, can judge another, [303], 14;
within man, [92], 9;
without a purpose, [109], 15;
without bread, [42], 51;
without enthusiasm, [165], 46;
without passion, [559], 39, 40;
without philosophy, [559], 41;
without prayer, [534], 5;
without shame lost, [289], 24;
without the Bible, [392], 52;
word of, [520], 7;
Wordsworth's lament over, [14], 48;
worthiest, according to Burns, [454], 4;
worthiest of affection, [189], 60
Man's, arm, if upheld by the gods, [402], 20;
being, secret of, the sphinx's, [452], 44;
chief want, [538], 1;
discontent, [352], 31;
doings symbolic, [10], 34;
faculty, feet not wings, [524], 41;
finest qualities, how to preserve, [427], 45;
first great work, [428], 21;
gifts, [219], 51;
greatest ornament and dignity, [533], 27;
grief his grandeur, [352], 31;
life, sphere of, [202], 41;
lot, like wind, [385], 11;
nature, secret of, [452], 45;
needs and wishes, [514], 16;
only true joy, [316], 27;
origin and end, [412], 39;
soul, majestic, [241], 46;
true ambition, [204], 37;
true beginning and father, [486], 12;
true elevation, [340], 45;
true safety, [340], 45;
true want, [538], 8;
two gala-days, [570], 3;
work, a, [261], 46
Management, good, economy of, [129], 47
Manfulness, in sin as well as faith, commended by Luther, [26], 6
Manhood, a, how built up, [92], 43;
a period of unlearning, [482], 33;
a struggle, [568], 42;
passing away of, [514], 19;
possible here, [156], 22;
sense of, elevating power of, [443], 26;
measure of, [354], 40
Manhood's work, [402], 22
Mankind, an unco' squad, [564], 24;
and his task, of what composed, [313], 12;
contractedness of, [140], 9;
contrary estimate of, [398], 42;
does not doubt, [265], 11;
ever in progress, [106], 20;
evil of despising, [553], 12;
generally bad, [326], 35;
how interpreted, [556], 33;
how to love, [177], 39;
how to maintain love for, [188], 42;
knowledge of, damaging effect of, [277], 54;
Machiavelli on, [57], 16;
one and a whole, [173], 25;
proper study of, [449], 43;
to love, and to see into, [494], 14;
wish of, collectively, [89], 50
Manliness, commended, [366], 36
Mannerism, how produced, [139], 20
Manners, a probity in, [470], 20;
artificial, effect of assuming, [469], 26;
authors of, [238], 32;
cannot be imparted, [137], 37;
caught as diseases, [200], 50;
composing, more than composing books, [141], 42;
defended by ceremony, [38], 20;
effect of pride on, [194], 40;
effect on, of liberal arts, [194], 14;
everywhere to be respected, [76], 14;
fine, inventor of, [120], 26;
fine, mantle of fair minds, [106], 28;
fine, support of, [106], 29;
good, [129], 48-51;
good, and love of country, [439], 48;
good, to attain to, [490], 5;
good, not communicated, [128], 52;
good, the basis of, [417], 1;
good, the element of, [454], 5;
how learned, [478], 83;
importance of, [181], 17; [204], 46; [559], 8;
men's evil, [277], 24;

once vices, [538], 16;
people of, distinguishing trait of, [424], 4;
pleasing, effect of, [283], 50;
refinement of, how attained, [216], 19;
regulated by the king, [45], 47;
root of defect in, [56], 61;
striking, bad, [403], 43;
strange, disconcerting, [281], 5;
that speak well of the man, [469], 27;
the power of, [406], 21;
the supreme power in, [187], 56;
to be studied, [313], 31
Manual labour, the value of, [305], 44
Manufacture, contrasted with art, [550], 16
Manufactures, our, [525], 38
Many, men, many minds, [332], 58;
the, no pleasing, [123], 24; [258], 30
Maria Theresa's epitaph, [388], 2
Mark, missing the, [416], 15
Market-place, training of, [450], 13
Marksman, a good, [6], 49
Marriage, a happy, [249], 41;
a query prior to, [36], 33;
a way to repentance, [118], 30;
a suitable, [390], 30;
according to luck, [93], 31;
advice regarding, [175], 21;
an open question, [197], 19;
an unhappy, [280], 25;
as birds in cages, [198], 8;
before and after, [217], 44; [276], 29;
before, evil, [147], 56;
concern of others in one's, [324], 17;
contentment in, [187], 57;
early, advantage of, [117], 2;
extremes in, [64], 7;
fascination of, [118], 36;
for money, [148], 1;
in despair, [341], 24;
in opinion and reality, [191], 29;
inducements to, [451], 26;
kills or cures, [80], 20;
may mar, [23], 22;
rule in, [82], 63; [270], 23;
saying on, [568], 7;
significance of, [326], 14;
Socrates on, [550], 10;
the happiest, [124], 6;
true, union in, [192], 15;
unfortunate, evil of, [202], 43;
well-matched and ill-matched, [531], 27;
with an old person, in hope of his death, [479], 44
Marriages, unequal, [496], 41; [507], 9;
why few happy, [451], 1
Married, in haste, [485], 45;
life, who fit for, [335], 7;
people, their mutual interest, [548], 24
Marry, times not to, [192], 40
Marrying, anticipated and experienced, [36], 34
Martyr, a, to live harder, than to die, [203], 5;
blood of the, [436], 39;
what makes a, [206], 1
Martyrdom, ennobled by Christianity, [42], 54;
to bystanders, [458], 14
Martyrdoms as seen at the time, [9], 58
Martyrs, accepted by nature, [292], 18;
the blood of, [418], 42;
the modern, [359], 33
Masses, effect of giving power to, [123], 33;
judgment of the, [518], 11
Master, a fellow worker, [446], 42;
a good, [152], 17;
and his affairs, [71], 6;
and servant, unhappy relation of, [395], 14;
being without a, [491], 1;
careless, [2], 35;
early, [75], 34;
effect of presence of, [80], 53;
every one finds his, [85], 27;
eye of, [426], 34;
finding, a first duty, [428], 15;
measure of, [441], 41;
minds, rare, [292], 38;
no one born, [295], 45;
of whole world, [150], 13;
presence of, eye of house, [327], 39;
qualification for, [175], 3;
spirits, [56], 54;
the, and the mansion, [293], 34;
true, [145], 36;
who fears his servants, [279], 47;
who will not serve one, [42], 17
Master's eye, worth of, [53], 28
Masterhood, and servanthood, correlative, [107], 7;
restriction necessary to, [152], 39
Masters, accustomed, not easily dispensed with, [239], 17;
and their domestics, [105], 9;
change of, to the poor, [189], 18;
no serving two, [303], 24; [305], 22;
not all, [523], 2;
real, importance of, [559], 43;
serving two, [41], 15;
the great, the subject of all, [324], 34
Mastership and servantship, value of, [96], 19
Mastery, empty claim of, over others, [10], 1;
essence of, [492], 48;
of a subject, how to attain, [117], 32;
how to attain to, [390], 36;
mistaken for egoism, [65], 29;
thorough, how possible, [303], 25; [305], 22
Material things essential to life, [468], 26
Mathematics, our, [524], 34
Mathesis, a fundamental, [494], 11
Matrimony, the state of, [234], 22; [405], 46
Matter, spirit-informed, [277], 43;
subject to mind, [279], 32
Maturity, law of, [445], 5
Maxim, the grand modern, [38], 45;
the, of maxims, [491], 38
Maxims, by themselves, [12], 33;
good, value of, [129], 52;
sound, the value of, [400], 23;
their helpfulness, [356], 1;
their, show men, [239], 4;
too high, to be reserved, [529], 2
Mazes, in wandering, lost, [336], 43
Me, our, the only reality, [482], 12
Mean, a, in all things, [87], 14;
deed, debasing, [150], 2;
the proper course, [98], 5
Meaning well, [495], 24
Meanness, debasing, [16], 16;
more hopeless than wickedness, [166], 44
Means, and end, [5], 50;
I'll husband, [110], 25;
must be at hand, [3], 32;
to do ill deeds, [162], 39
Measures, nothing to men, [273], 41
Meat, and stomach for it, matter of thanks, [398], 14;
one man's, not another's, [5], 7;
where mouths, [127], 30, 42
Medal, and its reverse, [40], 3;
reverse of, thought on, [333], 3
"Meddle not," as a maxim, [413], 31
Medea, her method of reform, [305], 28
Mediævalism, chief moral agent of, [453], 11
Medical skill, profession of, universal, [106], 36
Medicine, contrary effects of, [84], 35;
Mephisto on the study of, [59], 58
Mediocrity, aiming at, [489], 32;
helpful to make wise, [189], 56;
in power, [314], 35; [376], 46;
naturally pleasing to us, [308], 1;
respectable, inoffensive, [374], 50;
the ascendency of, a sign of the times, [429], 45;
to be cheerfully accepted, [172], 19;
when unendurable, [466], 32
Meekness, power of, [405], 25;
true, faces of, [398], 12
Melancholy, and mirth, correlated, [482], 27;
charm in, [125], 9;
contrasted with cheerfulness, [40], 46;
how to prevent, [81], 41
Melanchthon's rule, [188], 25
Melodies, of the everlasting chime, [467], 10;
the sweetest, [408], 30
Melody, in the heart of everything, [9], 47;
sphere, [435], 3
Member, suffering in one, [110], 13
Memorial, more durable than brass, [96], 47
Memorials, enduring, [99], 20
Memory, and judgment compared, [21], 3;
dependent on forgetfulness, [495], 18;
dependent on oblivion, [176], 16;
independent of will, [338], 33;
necessity of exercising, [273], 11;
not to be dragooned, [565], 45;
pleasures of, [546], 21;
Themistocles on his, [273], 6;
the dark background of, [323], 23;
the faculty of, [426], 45;
wise, the condition of, [176], 16;
with little judgment, [26], 11
Men, a little breed, [523], 6;
a thousand kinds of, [275], 25;
after modern or ancient model, [124], 13;
all conditioned by circumstance, [138], 29;
all, play-actors, [286], 31;
ambitious, like tallest trees, [456], 40;
and the law, [438], 24;
and their vices, how to treat, [340], 32;
and women of right sort, [35], 2;
angels or slugs, practically no matter, [339], 42;
anvil as well as hammer, [92], 32;
argumentative, [398], 19;
as individuals, and their belongings, [521], 3;
as measured of God, [125], 29;
as the generation of leaves, [326], 37;
as they are born, [398], 16;
at birth and death, [9], 60;
at their best, [289], 49;
blindness of, [65], 33;
born for others, [310], 13;
born too soon, [116], 32;
bubbles on stream of time, [111], 40;
but three classes of, [466], 29;
by what standard to weigh, [333], 19;
childless, progeny of, [445], 10;
collective beings, [521], 3;
collectively, respect for, despised individually, [16], 1;
common, apologies for men, [45], 15;
compared with plants, [349], 16;
dangerous, [149], 13;
differences among, [110], 20;
dream of a shadow, [393], 16;
driven as turkeys, [521], 14;
effect of, ignorance of, [65], 32;
evil, characteristic of, [95], 32;
evil of shunning, [65], 31;
false estimate of, [162], 22;
far-observant, often unknown to themselves, [529], 23;
for certain brothers, [556], 41;
glorious, Bacon on, [124], 23;
god-devils, [357], 35;
God's versus devil's, [128], 10;
good, value of, [129], 53;
good, mercy in, [187], 18;
graded from birth, [21], 15;
great (see Great men);
greatest, sayings about, [432], 16-23;
greatest, simplest, [432], 41;
happy, full of present, [140], 23;
how misknown, [65], 31;
how ruined, [9], 69;
how to be weighed, [507], 13;
how to govern, [492], 47;
how to make true or great, [501], 14;
how to treat, [510], 14, 15;
how treated by the gods, [68], 36;
hypocrites when talking of themselves, [535], 28;
in love, philosophy of, [542], 15;
in one respect all alike, [188], 39;
in the eye of God, [127], 23;
inconstancy of, [391], 24;
inequality among, [239], 10;
known when in misfortune, [544], 2;
knowledge of, advantage of, [60], 34;
lenses, [336], 41;
like chameleons, [520], 42;
like fishes in sea, [107], 3;
like nails and like rivets, [398], 17;
like spaniels, [398], 23;
Marmontel's feelings towards, [164], 46;
may come and go, [165], 29;
members of one body, [521], 33;
most, insolvent, [284], 26;
never present with themselves, [521], 41;
no class of, dispensable, [86], 19;
no greater now than have been, [302], 19;
not common, [115], 6;
not helpers, but hinderers, [494], 28;
not helpful or to be helped, [169], 23;
of ability, now often unbelievers, [293], 27;
of genius, under misfortune, [238], 3;
of low and of high degree, vanity, [407], 35;
of one pattern, [190], 3;
of retiring timidity, [561], 13;
of unbridled passions, helping, [536], 5;
old, lives of, [327], 24;
old, what should be the care of, [327], 23;
old, without judgment of their peers, [337], 22;
on earth as soldiers fighting in a foreign land, [155], 16;
only distinction among, [446], 42;
only performers, not composers, [127], 2;
only players, not authors, [127], 1;
ordinary, aspiring to be geniuses, [239], 6;
put off with stories, [298], 3;
races of, compared to leaves, [249], 49;
seat of logic of, [64], 15;
seducing, [477], 15;
self-made, respect for, [90], 11;
shadows, and shadow-hunted, [538], 29;
soldiers, [10], 60;
some, demi-gods, [357], 35;
some, women, [88], 20;
symmetrical, [276], 2;
that are ill to manage, [472], 15;
to act as men, [28], 37;
to act as men now, [526], 13;
to be afraid of, [442], 3;
to be both men and children, [243], 25;
to be mystified, not satisfied, [405], 56;
to be shunned, [169], 23;
to be weighed with merchant's scales, [265], 12;
truly great, characteristic of, [500], 45, 46;
two, alone worthy of honour, [503], 45;
two levers to move, [468], 36;
unmarried, in social relations, [508], 9;
virtue and vice of, [541], 21;
want of concord among, [163], 18;
what is required of, [243], 29;
when angels, [521], 36;
when children, philosophy of, [542], 15;
when just, [238], 34;
when likest gods, [158], 42;
when maidens sue, [544], 18;
when more divine, [52], 29;
when most godlike, [521], 40;
when properly themselves, [521], 42;
who hope for no better life, [478], 46;
wise, full of present, [140], 23;
with some, personifications, [191], 28;
See Les hommes, [238], 31
Men's, judgments of one another, [299], 13;
lives, a prophecy in, [470], 1
Men-children, children only, [32], 44
Mendacious being, the one, [476], 17
Mental, disease the fatalist, [423], 42;
diseases not to be spoken of, [260], 27
Mephistopheles' account of himself, [79], 35
Mephistopheles, character of, [128], 24;
like cat with mouse, [117], 41;
spirit of, [60], 1
Merchandise, a, curs'd, [52], 3
Merchant, making and counting his money, [442], 4;
profession of, [107], 11;
the, temptation of, [13], 21;
true-bred, as a gentleman, [22], 3
Mercury, a, not made out of any log, [97], 53
Mercy, a, to be condemned, [470], 11;
as dealt by God, [125], 25;
attractive power of, [28], 6;
divine sovereignty of, [33], 18;
effect of, on sin, [314], 17;
God's, near, [280], 27;
God's, universal, [128], 5;
in a king, [301], 17;
in every place, [478], 8;
nobility's badge, [408], 26;
power of, on sinner, [496], 28;
quality of, [450], 21;
the, required, [495], 41;
too much, [497], 40;
true, [500], 23;
whereto serves, [549], 36;
who will not show, [553], 1;
woman's virtue, [65], 35
Merit, and good fortune united, [208], 5;
better than descent, [173], 9;
from use of gifts, [330], 12;
independent of time and mode, [235], 29;
man's highest, [266], 36;
modest, [278], 20;
not prior to existence, [306], 13;
often a drawback, [234], 5;
power of, [26], 15;
power of, in contrast with charms, [40], 32;
proof of superior, [226], 11;
sufficiency of one's, [456], 15;
the test of, [473], 26;
unprotected, to be cherished by wealth, [244], 2;
without fame, [101], 28;
without modesty, [278], 20
Merriest, when men are, [488], 9
Messiah, the perpetual, [193], 43
Messias of Nature, [459], 41
Metal, native, test of a man's, [200], 47
Metamorphoses, universal, [314], 28
Metaphor, a glowing, power of, [46], 11
Metaphysic, contrasted with logic, [252], 30;
the only intelligible, [372], 20
Metaphysics, defined, [544], 34;
in modern literature, [175], 36;
obscurative of truth, [201], 3;
the utmost of, [144], 9
Method, an individual matter, [75], 17;
economy from, [260], 38
Microcosm, each, a macrocosm, [75], 20
Microscopes, and eyes, [98], 21
Middle course, safest, [188], 4; [271], 56; 272, [1], 10
Midas versus Apollo, [412], 43
Midnight, morrow in, [469], 23
Might, and right, the same, [184], 30;
measure of right, [278], 1;
stronger than right, [78], 47;
the, the right, [480], 26;

without right, [112], 15
Mights, of men, the main question, [451], 44
Mighty, dependent on wise, [61], 35; [462], 37
Migrate, why men, [276], 23
Mildness, power of, [261], 39
Military life, fascination of, [286], 18
Milk of human kindness, [166], 7
Mills, God's, grind slow, [128], 11, 12
Millstone, a, collects no moss, [79], 29
Milton, characteristic of, [419], 44;
music of, [445], 29;
on his blindness, [485], 50;
some mute inglorious, [399], 10
Mind, a degraded, lowest state of, [368], 29;
a diseased, tender, [277], 56;
a kingdom, [288], 10;
a moodiness of, how to treat, [543], 3;
a small, sign of, [202], 2;
a vacant, [2], 13;
a well-cultivated, [24], 53;
a willing, [24], 58;
alone old, [315], 31;
an incomplete, [468], 20;
and body, intimate connection of, [266], 28;
and heart, methods of, different, [222], 45;
as related to body, [122], 42;
base, mark of, [488], 1;
change of, mark of wisdom, [180], 41;
character of, to what due, [461], 20;
celestial and divine, [541], 17;
collision of, with mind, good, [202], 9;
conceiving and bringing forth, [442], 14;
creative power of, [442], 13;
dark depths in, [1], 26;
diseased, not to be ministered to, [35], 21;
dormant without inspiration, [326], 24;
dupe of heart, [223], 5;
effect of, on the body, [488], 3;
elation of, to be restrained, [80], 15;
elevation of mind, without justice, [413], 7;
fastened to a clog, [551], 43;
fields of, to be cultivated, [51], 7;
good, wealth of, [277], 44;
grandeur of, condition of, [490], 9;
greatness of, proofs of, [259], 23;
guilty, effect of, [432], 51;
human, march of, [441], 30;
human, sayings about, [435], 46; 436, [1], 2;
in suspense, easily swayed, [74], 9;
little, always, [25], 26;
little, conversing with great, [439], 25;
dislocated movements of, [69], 45;
lofty, good, [79], 9;
made-up, not to be advised, [47], 55;
makes the body rich, [111], 28;
maturity of, and bodily decay, [507], 21;
must be stimulated, [44], 19;
noble, contrasted with vulgar, [79], 30;
noblest, character of, [445], 8;
our better, [337], 17;
power of, on body, [202], 46;
presence of, test of a man, [200], 47;
sayings about the, [442], 15-28;
strong, unconscious, [455], 33;
the form of forms, [264], 15;
the gentle, mark of, [429], 50;
the great, [144], 51;
the, in the face, [478], 12;
the, its power of persuading itself to see what it chooses, [333], 27;
the man, [277], 46; [533], 5;
the true and sound, [459], 11;
the truly strong, unconscious, [459], 17;
to be kept bent, [243], 18;
to be kept in hand, [217], 35;
under too large obligations, [442], 12;
without education, [510], 11;
without, of one's own, [150], 39;
who knows the, [552], 7;
young and advanced, [465], 45
Minds, different pursuits of different, [67], 23;
excellent, levity in, [471], 4
fearless, success of, [103], 58;
great, characteristic of, [419], 42;
great contrasted with little, [251], 24-26
great, (see Great minds);
greatest, when they generally appear, [487], 28;
ill at ease, [397], 32;
little, how caught, [342], 13;
magic of action and reaction of, [477], 1;
occupied with small matters, [39], 24;
old, to be kept in exercise, [327], 25;
our, how we furnish, [524], 7;
our, when unoccupied, [338], 34;
strongest, unknown, [404], 11;
the finest, [427], 43;
thoughtful, love colour, [9], 32;
weak, weakness of, [530], 13, 14
Minister, defined in the Hitopadesa, [143], 8;
to live by ministering, [148], 19
Ministers, how judged, [465], 3
Ministry, a, advantage of opponents of, [480], 11;
test of a, [490], 3
Minnow, an emblem of man, [496], 10
Minor, the desire of, [452], 28
Minorities, rights of, to protection, [131], 26
Minute, every, how to fill, [240], 41
Minuteness, reverence for, in estimate of greatness, [135], 38
Mirabeau, last words of, [241], 29;
the greatness of, [413], 49;
to the Marquis de Brézé, [317], 15
Miracle, a, in quest of, [547], 32;
man the, of miracles, [522], 23;
pet child of faith, [55], 10;
the great indestructible, [53], 44;
the true, [533], 7
Miracles, age of, [415], 41;
all, how achieved, [157], 43;
cause of, [201], 11;
faith required for, [353], 51;
futility of, without spiritual sense, [175], 2;
how wrought still, [32], 3;
no longer, [3], 2;
of Christ, [442], 29;
the source of, [340], 7
Mirror, objects in a, [86], 37;
the best, [417], 47
Mirth, and melancholy, correlated, [482], 27;
hard to feign, in sorrow, [67], 30;
most, only apparent, [284], 28;
power of, [114], 9;
string attuned to, [478], 23;
unfelt, hard to feign, [154], 32;
unreasonable, [508], 23;
violent, [514], 34
Misanthropist at forty, [554], 17
Mischief, joy in, [294], 35;
not to be spoken, [271], 52;
origin of all, [10], 4;
past and prosper'd, [243], 6;
past, mourning, [494], 36
Misconception, purposed, evil of, [488], 28
Miser, and his losses, [13], 44;
Dryden to the, [124], 48;
his only right act, [24], 36;
mind of, [538], 34;
passion of, joyless, [222], 34;
sayings about the, [442], 30, 31;
the, his wants, [410], 14;
who dies rich, [13], 23
Miserable, apology for being, [487], 15;
only medicine of, [442], 32
Miseries, cure for all, [562], 42;
happiness at others', [181], 27;
our greatest, [340], 1;
past, recollection of, [213], 58
Misers, compared with moles, [282], 12;
greedy, rail at sordid, [136], 8;
that gloat over their money, [483], 4
Misery, a cause of, [200], 42;
a man's, from within, [485], 34;
a widespread cause of, [284], 30;
always exaggerated, [330], 5;
another's, no matter of sport, [474], 23;
cause of all, [494], 5;
enduring, [370], 16;
fatal prevailing source of, [333], 26;
in, God's help seen, [205], 17;
inconsistent with occupation, [307], 27;
not to be laughed at, [180], 8;
of man, the source of, [442], 33;
our own making, [314], 36;
plaint of, to be listened to, [116], 28;
sacred even to gods, [111], 4;
to-morrow's, not to be forestalled, [529], 5
Misfortune, a second master, [259], 1;
and wisdom, [54], 33;
as a school, [68], 45;
badge of innocence, [87], 38;
blessed, [27], 54;
Burns under blows of, [167], 23;
but one, for man, [110], 18
effect of, on understanding, [192], 6;
greatest, [432], 25;
how to face, [293], 2;
indispensable to man, [136], 33;
never alone, [298], 27;
not to be thy maid, [296], 40;
one, vigil of another, [333], 7;
one's own, and others', [171], 40;
others', admonitory, [31], 57;
scene of a, avoided, [88], 26;
self-caused, [41], 16;
suggestion of, in joy, [22], 24;
sure to come some day, [36], 47;
talked of not disagreeable, [59], 32;
temptation of, [186], 48;
the greatest, [318], 25;
the one, for a man, [471], 16;
the parent of, [368], 16;
a misnomer, [476], 25
Misfortunes, another's, easily borne, [168], 10;
as a source of talk, [7], 33;
best to forget, [181], 8;
how lightened, [17], 20;
in spite of, enough, [477], 2;
not always evil, [386], 38;
not believed in, till they come, [317], 10;
not to be repined over, [112], 41;
of others, easy to bear, [317], 6;
our greatest, source of, [338], 9;
our own and other's, [433], 18;
our own, not the heaviest, [176], 6;
our worst, [340], 1;
to be boldly faced, [502], 52;
variable, [281], 13;
when to bewail, [569], 20;
women's, self-made, [165], 33
Misgovernment, evil of, [261], 10;
sophistical, dilemma on which it rests, [139], 18
Misled, the, what is due to, [496], 8
Mismanagement, doomed, [374], 24;
not for ever, [480], 41, 46
Mist, how to escape a, [193], 52
Mistake, a general, [417], 38;
throttling of one, inconsiderable, [550], 18;
Wellington's protestation against, [473], 27
Mistakes, and discovery, [525], 15;
every one makes, [180], 19;
hard to correct and sift, [553], 34;
root of all great, [187], 12;
to be eschewed, [296], 11
Mistrust, treason, [414], 18
Misunderstanding, inevitable, [395], 11
Misunderstood, to be, a bitterness, [490], 29
Mob, described, [27], 40;
Emerson's definition of, [13], 50;
in a civilised nation, [420], 32;
sentiments of, [300], 9;
suffrages of, Horace on, [309], 25;
the, a scare to poet, [322], 8;
the fickle, [67], 7;
the, sayings about, [442], 36-39
Mob-tumults, Goethe's uneasiness at, [164], 33
Mode, set, tendency to, [205], 45;
the origin and character of, [65], 36
Moderation, an impregnable fortress, [112], 54;
exceeding, [492], 45;
in living, [334], 44;
the good in, [23], 48;
with a clear sky, [270], 50
Modern society versus Christianity, [43], 5
Moderns, and ancients, teachings compared, [416], 7;
the, contrasted with Greeks, [432], 45
Modes, ridiculous, [376], 42
Modesty, a virtue of the low-born, [319], 17;
as a virtue, [48], 55;
as an ornament, [432], 33;
as covering self-conceit, [168], 24;
commended, [27], 48;
contrast with loquacity, [253], 17;
dead, [7], 34;
divorced from truth, [536], 31;
false, [100], 44, 45;
in youth, [4], 41;
misconstrued, [350], 1;
more majestic than strength, [249], 14;
necessity of, [300], 41;
not promoted, [114], 50;
of nature not to be overstepped, [406], 25;
ornament, but drawback, [28], 21;
the prohibitions of, [367], 14;
true and false, [500], 24;
Virgil's, [293], 39;
want of, [313], 42
Mole, as oracle, [72], 14
Molière, Boileau of, [180], 37; inscription on his bust, [397], 2
Moment, a, capacity of, [523], 15;
birth of a, [160], 27;
both a cradle and a grave, [443], 1;
claim of, [523], 12;
divine, in a man's life, [70], 8;
each, nearer death, [40], 2;
event of a, [2], 40;
every, instructive, [92], 40;
every, of infinite value, [92], 45;
last, exaggerated, [443], 49;
passing, to be noted well, [321], 32;
power of a, [19], 35;
present, to be seized, [136], 12; [298], 8;
that may become eternal, [442], 42;
the, difficult to square with, [86], 8;
the greatest, in life, [481], 38;
the passing, value of, [537], 24;
the present, [449], 11, 12;
value of, [519], 15;
value of every, [212], 15
Moments, decisive power of, [334], 7
Monarch, great, a mark of, [88], 37;
of all I survey, [164], 44;
sacredness of, [21], 8
Monarchies, how ruined, [239], 24;
the fate of, [374], 4
Monarchs, fear of change perplexes, [103], 50
Monarchy, a, the likely fate of, [13], 53;
absolute, one objection to, [167], 24;
expensiveness of its trappings, [458], 17;
Schopenhauer on, [65], 37
Money, a blessing and bane, [104], 33;
a passport, [222], 28;
alienating effect of, [27], 17;
all it breeds, [52], 49;
as servant and master, [222], 29;
best use of, [418], 7;
blood and life, [88], 42;
by whom most needed, [304], 30;
chief value and virtue of, [420], 8;
collecting machine, in a civilised nation, [420], 32;
definition of, [530], 19;
despising, [344], 23;
does not feed men, [294], 44;
effect of being with or without, [46], 12;
either slave or tyrant, [183], 30;
enjoyed by few, [513], 22;
given in alms on good security, [344], 53;
indispensable, [2], 22;
lending, as a means of living, [274], 40;
lending, risk in, [364], 30;
loss of, bitter, [316], 38;
loss of, lament over, [260], 12;
loss of, misery from, [350], 2;
love of, [49], 57;
making, innocence of, [274], 21;
man with, or without, [46], 12;
master, if not servant, [173], 21;
more powerful than love, [14], 3; [254], 14;
breeds only money, [44], 13;
no respect without, [127], 40;
not to be covetous of, [309], 30;
persuasiveness of, [332], 33;
persuasive power of, [28], 6;
power of, [14], 47; [19], 29; [23], 31; [23], 36; 88, [7], 9; [119], 30-32; [173], 22; [246], 8; [299], 21; [314], 8; [537], 36; [555], 13;
public, like holy water, [165], 36;
ready, eloquence of, [376], 45;
ready, value of, [17], 53;
Ruskin's definition of, [10], 5;
sayings about, [119], 30-32;
splendour in use, [318], 34;
terror of not making, [434], 26;
the love of, [440], 2;
the question in regard to, [503], 30;
want of, brings care, [14], 56;
who want to borrow, [480], 21
Money-bag with holes, [209], 16
Moneyed man, attendant of, [28], 6
Moneyless man, [19], 28
Money-makers and money-spenders, [277], 9
Monk, danger of offending a, [27], 27
Monomania, often unperceived, [268], 24
Monument, who deserve a, [482], 36;
who should have no, [305], 8
Mood, the right, to be seized, [294], 34
Moods belong to man alone, [291], 14
Moon, and its light for all, [443], 2;
dispensable, [174], 33;
the, that shone in Paradise, [564], 19;
when the sun is there, [383], 38
Moonlight sleeps upon this bank, [162], 38
Moral, a, to be brief, [547], 16;
achievement of man, [533], 38;
conduct, second great rule of, [431], 34;
energy, contrasted with brilliant parts, [191], 11;
perfection, minimum state of, [334], 31;
qualities, not enough, [105], 51;
sentiment, only school of, [446], 16;
sentiment, the atmosphere of, [416], 33
Morality, a too austere, [226], 19;
aim of all, [415], 44;
and civilisation, [43], 39;
and religion, [371], 37; [372], 32;
as it now is, Shelley on, [371], 35;
contrasted with religions, [467], 13;
department of philosophy, [507], 33;

dependence of, on faith, [100], 12;
implies religion, [175], 29;
independent of the religion, [121], 42;
national, no, without religion, [369], 22;
not moral philosophy, our want, [203], 34;
of some, in remnants, [443], 7;
sum of, [493], 15;
the laws of, [438], 26;
true, [500], 25;
true, the condition of, [357], 12;
vital, first condition of, [481], 44;
without religion, [522], 39
Morals, and art, rules in, compared, [188], 15, 16;
cultivated by love, [484], 22;
genesis of, [267], 42;
good-will everything in, [60], 9;
in youth, moulding, [97], 1;
our teacher in, [521], 20;
rooted in fear, [188], 17;
straight in, alone right, [534], 21;
the new, [189], 43;
to be made attractive, [523], 11
More, Sir T., fruitlessness of his teachings, [314], 34
More's "Utopia," 331, 27
Morn, advancing, with rosy steps, [317], 36;
in russet mantle, [253], 4;
the breath of, [408], 23
Morning, a fresh, frosty, exercise in, [534], 16;
how to use the, [401], 38;
only a, in all things, [180], 28;
summons of every, [212], 8;
the first hour of, [428], 22;
the value of, [191], 8, 9
Mortality never taken home by us, [9], 70
Mortals, fate of, Virgil on, [335], 58
Moses compared with Galen and Justinian, [55], 15
Moth, the, desire of, for the star, [423], 11
Mother, a priestess, [252], 46;
among children, Goethe on, [475], 33;
as teacher limited, [383], 8;
busy, and daughter, [259], 43;
devotion of a, not thrown away, [305], 25;
effect of scream of, on child, [333], 45;
fondness of, [3], 4;
in the home, effect of 548, 35;
Lord Langdale on his, [174], 39;
love of a, [321], 8;
one good, value of, [332], 25;
the good, [430], 40;
the power of, [429], 38;
venerableness of a, [333], 9;
who feels ennui, [415], 19
Mother's, care, despising, [494], 19;
heart, [444], 13, 14;
kiss, power of a, [219], 29;
secret hope, [568], 40
Mother-grace, the, [444], 11
Mothers, good, value of, [537], 30;
knowledge peculiar to, [319], 18;
sad-hearted, while we sleep, [550], 17
Mother-tongue in a foreign land, [322], 9
Mother-wit, and false theology, [422], 26;
better than learning, [15], 66
Motive, everything, [163], 7;
the principal thing, [243], 1
Motives, essential to man, [127], 14;
human, the two great, [459], 26;
man sure of his, [551], 38
Motley, the, in every one, [524], 21
Mountain, a, in labour, [342], 9;
beyond every, [27], 11;
every, has its valley, [325], 45;
scenery, impressiveness of, [485], 27
Mountains, high, a feeling, [167], 39;
never meet, [115], 9
Mourning, the most demonstrative, [318], 18
Mouth shut, but eyes open, [43], 50
Move, one false, effect of, [332], 15
Movement, the principle of, [375], 7
Movements, all great, enthusiastic, [91], 12;
backward, advance, [470], 15
Multitude, difficulty in teaching, [423], 36;
faith of the, [509], 29;
not to be followed, [108], 16;
sayings about the, [444], 20, 23, 24
Murder, one, versus millions, [333], 10;
punishment of, a necessity, [95], 6;
sacrilegious, [46], 27;
will speak, [110], 24
Muses, the, power of, [444], 25
Mushrooms, lowly, cared for, [146], 55
Music, a becoming, and vehicle of emotion, [249], 47;
a characteristic of, [507], 52;
all-relatedness of, [244], 31;
compared with poetry, [351], 6;
dependent on tone, [39], 6;
effect of, [543], 43;
effect of words on, [546], 45;
elevated sensation of, [443], 41;
everywhere in nature, [384], 29;
good, effect of, [424], 38;
hard to collect into a distinct idea, [445], 7;
health to soul, [215], 33;
human, [265], 23;
in all things, [478], 9;
in orchestra, interpreter of, [206], 29;
in the heart, [444], 26;
key to female heart, [287], 25;
like softest, to attending ears, [162], 33;
Luther's esteem for, [297], 45;
Luther on skill in, [554], 16;
marching to, [332], 42;
mediocre, [466], 32;
moral effect of, [548], 38;
of men's lives, [162], 35;
Plato's definition of, [444], 17;
pleasure we feel in, [448], 7;
possibility of, [471], 5;
power of, [543], 36;
power of, to change nature, [317], 2;
quickening power of, [277], 27;
spiritual, how produced, [401], 46;
sweet, effect of, [164], 47;
the demonic in, [423], 3;
the food of love, [173], 23;
the most heaven-affecting, [324], 21;
the sphere of, [81], 33;
the sweetest, [456], 32;
the true universal speech, [287], 26;
true, [500], 26;
nobly non-utilitarian, [226], 22
"Must," God's, youth's answer to, [395], 19
Must, hard nut to crack, [287], 27
Mysteries, Divine, not to be meddled with, [204], 1;
made matters of reason, [525], 4
Mystery, a higher, wise man unwilling to unveil, [507], 17;
a, not to be spoken of mysteriously, [402], 4;
abode of faith, [100], 24;
and vice or roguery, [548], 26;
fascination of, [284], 22;
for whose benefit, [53], 35;
significance of, [506], 3;
supposed a sign of evil, [548], 39
Mystics, enthusiastic, [443], 43
Myth, a, not a lie, [296], 10
Mythology, significance of, [296], 10
Myths of fables, the, [492], 34
N
Nae luck aboot the hoose, [111], 20
Nail, worth of a, [187], 8
Name, a, better make, than inherit, [169], 32;
a good, [6], 50;
a good, security of, [44], 12;
a good, worth of, [31], 46;
a great, magic in, [470], 7;
a, too soon famous, [533], 24;
ambition for a, [14], 20;
but sound and smoke, [119], 26;
good, in man and woman, [129], 55;
good, loss of, [105], 56;
ill, easily got, [289], 15;
my good, he that filches, [146], 15;
virtuous, prized, [24], 44;
what's in a, [540], 11
Namelessness of many things, [284], 11
Names, and virtues, different sources of, [116], 15;
great, what they stand for, [134], 38
Naming, difficulty of, [532], 7
Naples, Bay of, Mme. de Staël on, [173], 14
Napoleon, Carlyle on, [440], 37;
of his generals, [167], 50;
tired of Europe, [223], 11
Napoleon III., career of, [180], 35
Narrow, circle, effect of, on mind, [184], 20;
way, to be chosen, [305], 5;
world, bestriding like a Colossus, [555], 12
Narrowing, a necessity for both God and man, [127], 24
Narrowness, a, not possible now, [201], 53
Narrow-souled people, like narrow-necked bottles, [207], 35
Nation, a rich and happy, [14], 32;
a, strength of, [482], 50;
a talkative, [345], 16;
a truly free, [414], 1;
and its honour, [444], 30;
Bible of a, [492], 4;
biography of, [418], 26;
character of, not in its fine folks, [419], 39;
civilised, constituents of a, [420], 32;
composed of actors, [289], 44;
first period of, [428], 28;
genius of, [471], 29;
history of, a Bible, [418], 24;
how governed, [444], 29;
life of, Ruskin on, [438], 51;
narrow stand for a great, [414], 27;
no reforming, by "tremendous cheers," 305, 28;
proverbs of a, [450], 2;
a, secret of destiny of, [319], 23;
that can't defend itself deserving of being destroyed, [175], 32;
that does not stake its all on its honour, [298], 24;
that is indestructible, [305], 26;
that cannot retrograde, [421], 38;
the first and second power of a, [428], 30;
treatment by, of its greatest men, [239], 20;
true mind of, how to know, [459], 1;
wealth without intelligence ruin to, [305], 27;
what creates a, [193], 26;
what determines destiny of, [423], 13;
whence the good of a, [117], 40
National, character found among the peasantry, [266], 9;
good, self-derived, [314], 48;
greatness, condition of, [477], 35;
life without epoch, [475], 3
Nationality, characteristics of, [7], 35;
compared with individuality, [193], 24
Nations, and their most eminent men, [176], 4;
basis of, character of, with posterity, [541], 20;
cause of hostility of, [229], 28;
distances and divisions of, how to measure, [423], 48;
effect of modesty on, [193], 27;
glory of, [443], 37;
great, characteristic of, [133], 18;
in, head before heart, [13], 54;
law of welfare of, [232], 45;
leprosy in, Church source of, [544], 29;
that navigate most, [443], 34;
to ingraft new ideas on, [491], 11;
vicissitudes of, [81], 37;
wisdom of, [462], 28
Native, land, a man's connection with, [288], 33;
land, its fascinating power, [295], 39;
land, love for, [32], 25;
land, want of love for, [168], 41;
soil, dear, [343], 29
Natural, as source of good, [298], 16;
effect of desiring to appear, [316], 36;
graceful, [92], 50;
never shameful, [337], 3;
symbolic, [92], 51;
the, a mark of, [541], 1;
things, without shame, [290], 17
Naturalist, requirements in, [262], 2
Nature, a great, development of, [142], 55;
a whole, [173], 25;
against, against God, [535], 40;
all, unknown art, [10], 7;
an enigma, till solved in and by man, [94], 27;
and art at one, [290], 3;
and her secrets, [508], 20;
and man, [549], 13;
and man, distinction between, [424], 1;
and necessity barriers, [170], 7;
and wisdom at one, [318], 47;
as a judge, [389], 11;
as felt by experience, [94], 32;
as regards God, [66], 2;
aims of, [66], 3;
as seen by intellect, [94], 32;
at bottom, [482], 12;
at heart, music, [384], 29;
be, your teacher, [44], 44;
cheerful lesson of, [564], 20;
circular power in, [472], 7, 31;
cruelty in, [20], 44;
cursed, as breeding ingratitude, [403], 40;
diseased, oftentimes breaks forth, [69], 13;
effect of contact with, in our city estimates, [21], 30;
errorless, [18], 44;
everything in, of one stuff, [94], 24;
fashioned him, then broke the mould, [290], 5;
filling the sails, [544], 30;
full of milk of human kindness, [486], 5;
gave sign of woe, [75], 46;
gift of, to man, [264], 9;
God's body, [9], 6;
her carefulness and her carelessness, [394], 47;
her gifts out of love, [528], 7;
her means, [249], 31;
how perfected, [404], 12;
how to regard our, [523], 16;
impartial,
5, 16;
in smallest things, [498], 1;
in the smallest, untameable, [5], 49;
inanimate, way from, to spirit, [198], 45;
inferior to grace, [131], 34;
inferior to spirit, [454], 35;
infinite vastness of, to the wisest, [496], 17;
inner secret of, impenetrable, [194], 42;
inexpugnable, [176], 7;
judgment of, effect of time on, [486], 33;
just, [226], 28;
laws of, God's thoughts, [232], 7;
life of, defined, [53], 34;
lore of, our treatment of, [408], 24;
love of, for her children, [219], 53;
made up of negative and positive, [94], 26;
makes no leaps, [290], 10;
more potent than will, [480], 35;
my goddess, [483], 42;
never without a purpose, [290], 9;
no beating back, [40], 36;
no blank or trifle in, [301], 13;
no caprices in, [475], 12;
no coercing, [73], 14;
no driving out, [290], 18;
no fixtures in, [467], 30;
no solitude in, [474], 20;
not affected by greater or less, [260], 16;
not to be baulked, [72], 41;
not to be coerced, [538], 11;
not to be extinguished, only repressed, [528], 33;
not to be grasped, [560], 9;
nothing seen isolated in, [527], 25;
office of prophet of, [198], 24;
omnipotent, [241], 46;
one throughout, [287], 28;
one touch of, [334], 28;
one whole, [199], 1;
one's, denying, [432], 29;
our feeling for, [508], 25;
outer shelf of, showing, [194], 42;
partial to cross-breedings, [226], 27;
path of, narrowness of, [447], 9;
perception of, [488], 36;
pity and rigour of, [193], 51;
pleasure of study of, [475], 9;
pleasures of, [470], 17;
secret of our mastery over, [206], 39;
secrets of, not to be forced, [119], 29;
self-imitative, [226], 29;
self-imparting, [391], 11;
surpasses art, [104], 51;
teaching of, [332], 39;
testimony of, versus learned arguments, [511], 16;
the aims of, [66], 3;
the book of, [418], 48;
the course of, [421], 41;
the course of, only partially known, [421], 42;
the favourite of, [264], 9;
the first step of, [392], 10;
the law of, [438], 20, 27, 28;
the living garment of God, [321], 29;
the masterpiece of, [6], 9;
the riddle of; [507], 6;
the spirit of, [401], 42;
the truths of, [459], 23;
those to whom she reveals herself, [335], 21;
through, up to Nature's God, [393], 31;
to be humoured, [243], 21;
too noble for world, [157], 6;
unchallengeable, [2], 51;
unhinged by gold, [162], 19;
unwillingly dragged to light, [519], 11;
whole sense of, where found, [301], 48;
without danger or restraint, [497], 25;
without the poet, [539], 40;
wonders of, at hand, [186], 36;
world of, mirrored in man, [465], 6
Natures, finest, flaws in, [427], 40;
good by disdaining as well as attaining, [85], 37;
great, two kinds of, [467], 26;
our, like oil, [338], 40;
sad, tolerance of, [379], 13
Navigators, ablest, fortunate, [462], 25
Nay, a woman's, worth of, [141], 43
Near, key to far, [444], 34;
not sought in far off, [462], 38;
the, [445], 12;
the, neglected, [367], 9
Nearest, the, often far off, [54], 20
Neatness a virtue, [526], 27
Necessary, the barely, indispensable, [535], 44
Necessities sterner than hopes, [444], 38
Necessity, a teacher, [285], 39, 43;
all-powerful, [14], 33;
and fancy, [101], 46;
and free will hostile, [95], 13;
and law, power of, [121], 57;
and Nature barriers, [170], 7;
as a weapon, [194], 12;
basis of all, [10], 56;
earnest aspect of, [84], 40;
from habit, [138], 11;
hard to wield, [74], 35;
her allotments, [5], 12;
owns no holiday, [104], 39;
how to anticipate, [152], 19;
how to more than conquer, [523], 8;
in relation to strength, [417], 25;
its pressure beneficial, [267], 32;
its strength, [315], 10;
law for all but man, [8], 55;

man in relation to, 12; 64;
mother of invention, [276], 56;
ground of existence, [94], 44;
our master, [58], 18;
power of, [313], 32-34; [231], 34;
praised as virtue, [231], 3;
rebel of all laws, [103], 42;
ring of, always at the top, [250], 12;
ring of, ring of duty, [140], 10;
superior to Nature, [292], 11;
yoke of, to be borne, [175], 31
Need, a bitter, at present, [472], 6;
and wish, [105], 2;
man's first, [204], 14;
our prime one, [568], 29
Needle, to pole, [395], 32
Negation, mere, unfruitful, [116], 18;
the end of opposition, [425], 8;
opposed to activity, [94], 5
Negations, taking safety under, [203], 2
Negative principle, the importance of, [191], 15
Negatives, deprecated, [71], 37
Neglect, a little, dangerous, [8], 42, 47, 49
Negligence, one, fatal, [169], 33
Negro, Fuller on, [436], 19
Neighbour's, our, prosperity and poverty, [449], 47
Neighbours, their value to us, [522], 40
Nelson's signal at Trafalgar, [82], 43
Nemesis on the alert, [381], 21
Neptune's trident, [235], 26
Nero, on signing a death-warrant, [512], 1
Nerves, the man, [444], 42
Nescience greater than science, [382], 31
Nest, one's own, beautiful, [4], 37
Nest-life, echo of, audible only in sorrow, [424], 37
Net, while fisher sleeps, [89], 5
Nets, useless where no fish, [82], 28
Nettle, how to handle, [121], 40;
stroking a, [484], 37
Never, a long while, [38], 5
New, a precedent some day, [328], 27;
age, a, want of, [426], 22;
and old, discretion in regard to, [28], 16;
and old, the conflict of, characterised, [421], 24;
its appearance and effects of, [541], 2;
foil, to old, [183], 13;
in science and morals, [189], 43;
nothing, in life, [315], 29;
reproduction of old, or forgotten, [180], 15, 16;
seldom good, [183], 12;
the, and the valuable, [537], 29;
the, how to employ, [243], 44;
the, still but in birth pangs, [424], 15;
unexpected quarter it comes from, [430], 46;
year's, a, greeting, [240], 29
News, good and bad, [402], 44;
only teller of, [446], 21
Newspaper, literature, Goethe on, [333], 41;
the influential, Emerson on, [207], 38
Newspapers, Napoleon's dread of, [114], 1;
our fortresses, [191], 35
News-writer, highest reach of, [435], 9
New Testament, revelation in, [375], 13
Newton, on his own worth, [172], 26
Nicknames, good, effect of, [306], 25
Niggard, always poor, [159], 5;
contrasted with generous, [24], 7
Night, a long, [370], 18;
and morning, rule for, [406], 28;
cause of, to man, [76], 4;
counsel by, [226], 30;
deeds of, [536], 4;
last in the train of, [99], 53;
sayings on the, [444], 45-49; [445], 1;
sober-suited matron, [44], 39;
the darkest, followed by day, [55], 24
Nightingale, the, Milton on, [408], 21
Nights, drowsy, how to have, [176], 31
Nimbleness, contrasted with haste, [141], 5
Nimrod, the, of this era, [450], 40
Nineteenth century, the enthusiasm of, [245], 18
Nirvana, [313], 15;
road to, [444], 40
"No," a surly, honest fellow, [302], 37;
from merely saying, no good, [116], 18;
power of saying, as a sign, [309], 16;
to be deliberate, [337], 1
No, man indispensable, [180], 3;
one called happy before death, [63], 34;
the way to yea, [319], 22;
value of learning to say, [236], 6
Noah's ark, mouldy rolls of, [308], 15
Nobility, a man's, a test of, [368], 14;
a sure mark of, [234], 34;
and virtue, of kin, [242], 6;
appendix to, [170], 35;
at its origin, [10], 8;
source of, [308], 7;
in mind, [76], 53;
mark of true, [425], 17;
of race, mark of, [184], 21;
of soul, and of birth, [55], 28;
our old, to be preserved, [244], 1;
oldest and only true, [445], 33;
the beginning of, [190], 22;
the only, [488], 39;
true, essence of, [426], 2;
true, its origin, [500], 27
Noble, and vulgar, self-estimates of, [461], 10;
birth, proof of, [391], 21;
blood, humble, [213], 4;
descent, value of, [171], 11;
heart, attractive power of, [385], 22;
how men become, [190], 31;
man, and danger, [532], 15;
man, defined, [60], 22;
mind, mark of, [491], 44;
only, to be good, [163], 5;
people, loyalty of, [15], 52;
qualities, non-transferable, [484], 10;
silent ones, of world, [465], 10;
soul, proved in difficulty, [186], 3;
souls, power of, [508], 112;
the, appreciation of, [53], 31; [489], 36;
the, defined, [484], 26; [536], 38;
the, great, [309], 48;
the, in death, [445], 4;
to keep with noble, [203], 1;
words for shield of, [116], 36
Nobleman, a definition of, [360], 39;
a degenerate, [505], 25;
defined, [143], 38;
qualities of a, [380], 27
Nobleness, attribute of all, [10], 32;
its derivation, [319], 29;
refining power of, [16], 16;
test of, [76], 52;
the idea of, [184], 25
Nobles, born, [304], 9
Nod versus rod, [15], 55
Noise, music in distance, [268], 37;
not might, [14], 31;
of things deafening, [232], 51
Noises, encourager of, [431], 6
Nomadism, evil of, [346], 29
Non-being, no step in nature to, [517], 24
Non-existent rather than ignoble, [29], 35
Nonsense, consecration of, [523], 18;
daring, [53], 19;
in rhyme, [235], 43;
no objection in, [167], 31;
refreshing, [166], 9
No-progress men to be debarred public highways, [450], 8
Northern star, constant as, [164], 39
Nose, big, and handsome face, [210], 20
Noses, counting, to ascertain truth, [398], 27;
long, Napoleon's partiality for, [544], 1;
the length of, [472], 14
Nothing, absolute, [2], 21;
blessed in every respect, [299], 3;
extenuate, [400], 48;
for ever, [510], 29;
for nothing, [330], 1;
from nothing, [58], 34; [97], 16;
of nothing, [24], 3;
only once in the world, [476], 8;
perishes, [328], 17;
they that do, [479], 39
Novel, every, debtor to Homer, [93], 5
Novels, their unreality, [378], 1;
writers of, and double wrong they do, [563], 42
Novelty, charm of, [87], 28;
desire for, [179], 35;
love of, a ruling passion, [324], 36;
man's itch for, [87], 16;
people's delight in, [205], 12;
undue charm of, [536], 37
Now, the, [445], 12
Numbers, I lisp'd in, [21], 18;
round, [378], 17
Nurse, influence of, [3], 13
Nursery, training in, [443], 50
O
Oak, felled by blows of little axe, [269], 44;
when it falls, [445], 14
Oak-tree, when it falls and when it is planted, [545], 45
Oarsmen and steersman, [567], 27
Oath, powerless in domain of reason, [324], 26;
that does not bind, [305], 35
Oaths, but straws, [110], 29;
oracles, [157], 19;
straw to passion, [455], 39
Obedience, blind, [55], 9;
for those who can't rule, [243], 7;
imperative, [541], 27;
must be free, [204], 12;
not sacrifice, [45], 48;
Shelley on, [354], 46;
source of all virtues, [116], 14;
that is easy, [207], 20;
the key to freedom, [96], 22;
the virtue in, [364], 8;
to heaven, how learned, [449], 1;
true, [500], 28;
true, virtue of, [306], 44;
two kinds of, [490], 13;
value of, [10], 42;
virtue of Christianity, [403], 34;
when to be enforced, [171], 33
Obeisance, time for, [207], 11
Obeyed, how to be cheerfully, [176], 32
Obeying and governing, [203], 15
Obeys, who, and who commands, [151], 49
Object,and expression, [527], 26;
greatest in universe, and a greater, [432], 26
Objects, all, windows into the infinite, [10], 9
Obligation, haste in discharging, [490], 25;
limit to, [505], 7
Oblivion, the condition of memory, [176], 16;
the cormorant, [421], 35
Obscure, the, defined, [445], 23
Obscurity, cause of, [209], 45;
cause of, in writer, [205], 2;
contentment with, commended, [236], 1;
in an author, relative, [149], 8;
patience of, a duty, [343], 13
Obsequiousness, advantage of, [323], 32
Observation, Burns on lack of, [464], 42;
much, effect of, [285], 23;
to precede judgment, [27], 47;
vigilant, effect of, [92], 31;
want of, [109], 49; [143], 23;
width of, commended, [242], 30
Observed of all observers, [322], 32
Observer, a fine, characteristic of, [541], 4;
an acute, [144], 49;
great, a, [7], 3
Obsolete to the pot, [169], 42
Obstacles, glory in overcoming, [443], 20;
also stepping-stones, [418], 39
Obstinacy, [1], 12;
slavery, [15], 54
Obvious, the, ignorance of, [536], 45
Occasions, great, source of, [133], 7
Occupation, absence of, [2], 13;
blessing of, [307], 27;
constant, moral effect of, [46], 57;
necessity, duty, and pleasure, [291], 7;
sharpening effect of, [90], 3;
want of, a plague, [461], 16
Occupations, mechanical, [441], 42
Ocean, beating of, [445], 24
Offence, an, which we pardon, [330], 34;
and punishment, disproportionate effect of, [547], 31;
every, at first, [93], 6;
giving and appeasing, [201], 28;
inclination to give, [124], 16;
none free from, [304], 14;
not soon forgotten, [50], 51;
pardon of, bringing under obligation, [446], 45;
rising above, [543], 6;
taking, [21], 27
Offences, at my beck, [467], 22
Offender, and offended, as regards memory of offence, [42], 19;
never forgives, [146], 4;
the, unforgiving, [42], 18-32
Offers, extravagant, denials, [325], 27
Office, a kind, natural to one, [331], 47;
effect of, on character, [259], 5;
high, slavery of, [554], 1;
just pride of, [212], 2;
testing power of, [17], 32;
unfitness for, [179], 19;
without pay, a temptation, [14], 10
Official, duty of, [170], 3
Officious, the, mischievous, [161], 35
Offspring, unworthy, boast of, [509], 12
Old, and new, discretion in regard to, [28], 16;
and new, the conflict of, characterised, [421], 24;
few know how to be, [105], 17;
harness, better die in, [29], 21;
how first appreciated, [183], 13;
I love everything that's, [167], 42;
idolatry of the, [523], 13;
maid's tongues, [64], 5;
man, an, just beginning to live, [365], 39;
man in a house, [15], 58;
man, one misery of, an, [333], 29;
man, only old despicable, [299], 22;
man, sayings of, [118], 35;
men, and their good advice, [239], 33;
men, beauty of, [430], 14;
men, errors of, [425], 29;
men, failing of, [198], 18;
oak, twist out of, [209], 3;
people, borne with, [265], 32;
people, talk of, [238], 39;
people, who forget their age, [234], 30;
superseded by new, [445], 30;
the, death of, [445], 29;
the, extolled, [513], 38;
the, once new, [328], 27;
the, passed away, [424], 15;
to know how to grow, [493], 32;
what never grows, [535], 20
Old age, a burden, [132], 46; a peaceful, how to attain, [177], 33;
a regret, [568], 42;
a time of folly, [83], 58;
a weakness of, [199], 51, 52;
a worn out, cause of, [245], 43;
advance of, [74], 21;
an anxiety of, [466], 1;
and faults of youth, [527], 7;
and its wrinkles, [228], 16;
and memory, [225], 38;
approach of, unfelt, [310], 2;
benefit of knowledge to, [220], 31;
beyond astonishment, [188], 34;
chief characteristic of, [69], 24;
desire of, [147], 42;
discomforts of, [285], 50;
folly and jesting unseemly in, [161], 31;
Goethe on, [6], 22;
grief in, [192], 41;
hard to bear, [78], 31;
hoarding, [213], 2;
hoped for, yet dreaded, [224], 6;
its sadness, [537], 40;
only ornament of, [446], 11;
prepared by a noble life, [542], 23;
respect formerly for, [259], 12;
Seneca on, [16], 8;
the disappointment of, [190], 19;
the dotage of, [386], 44;
the ills of, [361], 33;
the temper of, [362], 1;
those who grow virtuous in, [544], 25;
time of astonishment, [182], 25;
to limit itself, [445], 32;
undesired, [91], 51;
weakness of, [516], 36;
weaknesses of, [275], 43
Oldest, not always best experienced, [298], 6
Once, better than never, [81], 20;
no custom, [77], 31
One, power of, to infect all, [136], 13;
see, see all, [384], 32;
thing, engrossment with, [168], 37
One's, own, how a thing is made, [313], 50;
own, negatively defined, [121], 45;
own, right to, [330], 43;
self, to be sought within, [293], 19;
self, fighting with and conquering, [391], 12
Onward, ever, [183], 15
Openness of mind, indispensable in discussion, [147], 13
Opinion, advantage of wide range of, [223], 14;
and force in government, [112], 16;
as a guide, [34], 50;
change of, not inconstancy, [295], 6;
common, ignorance of, [200], 53;
compared with truth, [502], 4;
duel of, nature umpire in, [190], 41;
effect of similarity of, [521], 1;
effect of time on, [335], 44;
every new, suffrages for, at first, [93], 1;
inconsistencies of, often justifiable, [193], 3;
inferior to heart, [54], 4;
matter of indifference, [136], 1;
nothing but, [94], 34;
of another, test of one's, [492], 27;
of us, to respect, [527], 3;
of the many, worthlessness of, [565], 21;
one man's, no man's, [332], 60;
popular, [352], 45, 46;
power of, [277], 13; [464], 34;
private, [359], 36;
private and public, [357], 10;
public, [315], 26; [359], 35-38;
public, impotence of, [534], 41;
public versus private, [453], 41;
reaction of, on one's self, [93], 39;
surgeon to my hurt, [172], 36;
test of worthlessness of, [157], 8;
what is wanted in, [313], 20
Opinions, changing, by law, [495], 34;
divisive effect of, [507], 14;