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

false, source of, [458], 13;
golden, from all, [166], 41;
how to express, [281], 38;
men's, fallible, [159], 3;
master of all, no bigot, [151], 21;
no right to have, [308], 22;
of friends, room to be left for, [528], 21;
of others, how to construe, [493], 41;
of stupid and ignorant people, [404], 40;
of things, effect on us of, [438], 50;
our, condition of satisfaction with, [521], 47;
our wrangling for, [521], 47;
predominant, [356], 5;
to be tested, [527], 29;
variety of, [446], 28;
want of fixed, [552], 17
Opium, carrying power of, [497], 12
Opportunities, little, to be improved, [251], 30;
of evil and good compared, [446], 29;
to be embraced, [441], 40;
value of, [244], 7
Opportunity, a lost, [461], 42;
but one, of a kind, [472], 8;
folly of losing, [322], 19;
how often lost, [57], 42;
importance of, [247], 31;
makes thief, [80], 13;
power of seeing and seizing, [381], 4;
temptation of, [166], 39;
tempting power of, [84], 10;
to be noted, [216], 49;
to be seized swiftly, [381], 4;
to be waited for, [12], 29
Opposition, how to face, [28], 35;
parliamentary, a necessity, [549], 19;
the virtue of, [303], 34
Oppression, unbearable, [194], 50;
under one deity, occasion for another, [379], 26
Optics, spiritual, [464], 39;
the law of, in human transactions, [188], 46
Opulence, and poverty, states of, contrasted, [173], 46;
vulgar, its insolence, [518], 8
Oracle, an ambiguous, [169], 35;
I am Sir, [165], 4
Oracles, heaven's, be preserved, [108], 4
Orator, a fully equipped, [150], 48;
all admire, [259], 9;
delivering everything for an, [109], 12;
desire of, [85], 18;
greatest gift of, [319], 28;
qualities of, [2], 52;
secret of success of, [61], 31
Orators, great, and their words, [135], 30;
no, born, [289], 42;
resource of, that want depth, [38], 12;
that always convince, [239], 13
Oratory, first and last thing in, [428], 41;
how to train for, [179], 21;
mediocre, [466], 32;
the aim of, [336], 5;
the main point in, [313], 20;
the seat of, [188], 40
Orb, the smallest, thou behold'st, [478], 25
Ordeal, that may be faced, [218], 21
Order, gain of time, [119], 14;
good, importance of, [61], 33;
man's law, [264], 16;
our limit, [567], 3;
social, without liberty, [396], 3;
the power of, [410], 42;
the teacher, [287], 22
Orders, no shame in obeying, [469], 13
Organ, inscription on, [156], 48
Organisation, closing of individual, [27], 10;
military, foundation of, [58], 28
Origin, pride of, [356], 39
Original, how to be, [461], 27;
man, and popular, contrasted, [448], 33;
the, still here, [130], 52
Originality, in authors, [444], 3;
merit of, [442], 8
Origins, the question of, insoluble, and for idle people, [243], 37
Orphaned, the truly, [298], 2
Orpheus, represented in poet, [459], 5
Others, bondage to, [385], 1;
often a burden to us, [8], 56;
trust not to, what one's self can do, [166], 42
"Ought," God in the word, [126], 42
Ounce, the last, [438], 5
Our own, before another's, [526], 30
Ourselves, to see, as others see us, [322], 24
Ourselves, to be accepted as we are, [526], 23, 24
Outer and inner, [446], 32
Outward, the, a garment of invisible within, [541], 14
Outwitted, the easily, [564], 38
Over-consideration, vanity of, [149], 48
Over-curious, the, [446], 33
Overfeeding, mortality from, [57], 19
Over-happiness no happiness, [140], 12
Overpraise, evil of, [472], 26
Ovid, on his muse, [63], 33;
on his rhymes, [36], 22;
on his works, [210], 23;
to his muse, [132], 21
Own, one's, devotion to, [166], 17;
one's, right to, [168], 18
Owner, foot of, [429], 12
Ownership, conquest, [155], 31;
exclusive, theft, [227], 20
Ox, a strange, [32], 10;
a tired, [32], 14;
an old, steady, [32], 55;
that works, not to be muzzled, [483], 47
Oyster, the first to eat an, [149], 20
P
Pactolus river, the blind and the seer at, [511], 5
Paganism, virtue of, [403], 34
Page, a, sparkling with points, [334], 24
Pain, a nether-fire, [544], 45;
and joy, relative amount of, [471], 36;
and pleasure, companions, [349], 30;
and pleasures, revolutions of, [545], 9;
as urging to labour, [95], 35;
avoidance of, the aim of wise man, [321], 36;
birth of higher natures, [23], 46;
compensation in, [328], 2;
consecrated in Christ, [524], 42;
felt, the worst, [446], 38;
flying, [524], 16;
from happiness, [2], 62;
great agent in march of world, [431], 9;
how to beguile, [435], 17;
how to eschew, [177], 34;
ill to bear, [364], 42;
man's master, [223], 24;
not imaginary, [10], 13;
not to be given, [431], 16;
one, lessened by another, [332], 18;
positive, [380], 62;
risk of shirking, [382], 10;
seductive power of, [88], 15;
shared, divided, [385], 28;
sympathetic, [242], 31;
three parts in joy, [28], 18;
which we give ourselves for others, [527], 43
Pains, forgotten after gains, [112], 29;
too much, bad, [300], 12
Painstaking, too much, a disease, [497], 43
Painter, effect of love of gain on, [439], 49;
genius necessary to, [489], 40;
his own colour-grinder, [446], 42;
what a, should paint, [93], 41;
licence conceded to, [348], 25
Painters and poets, common licence to, [351], 36
Painting, before, blackening behind, [41], 14;
does not feed men, [294], 44;
in old and in later times, [188], 35;
mediocre, [466], 32;
moral effect of, [383], 32;
that attracts by mere verisimilitude, [533], 42;
with a big brush, [566], 38
Pallas, the birth of, [301], 27
Pantaloon, lean and slippered, [438], 32
Paradise, a moment in, cheap at the price of death, [78], 36;
in, alone, [280], 6
Parasite, nothing without its, [73], 21
Pardon, never and always, [127], 29;
nothing in yourself, [178], 23;
term of, [527], 44
Pardoning, sometimes an evil, [278], 13, 15
Parent, authority of, how forfeited, [506], 20
Parents, and children, in great states and vile, [187], 19;
and children, as regards mutual support, [79], 40;
and children, how they regard each other, [41], 54;
death of, to child, [489], 22;
respect for, as a duty, [374], 43;
their joys, griefs, and fears, [437], 20
Parliament, member of, difficult to choose, [203], 44
Parnassus, the elect of, [234], 18;
the poor man's, [287], 12
Parsimony and frugality, [558], 39
Pars magna, [88], 36
Parsons, cobblers, [279], 46
Part, acting a, long, difficult, [201], 5;
inexplicable, if whole is so, [554], 33
Particles, significance of, [425], 20
Particular, in art, to represent universal, [448], 16;
the, the universal limited, [446], 46
Parties, all work together, [244], 4;
how formed, [276], 15;
the weakness of, [206], 32
Parting, an image of death, [180], 39;
ordained of God, [85], 42;
the pain of, [382], 1;
the pangs of, [555], 41
Partington, Mrs., and the Atlantic, [416], 32
Partisanship, effect of, on truth, [382], 22
Parts, men of great, [276], 5
Party, a sacrifice to, [550], 36;
animosities, effect of, [424], 40;
best service to, [145], 8;
government, evil effect of, [276], 15;
in England, habit of, [433], 4;
leader, his difficulties, [145], 17;
man, no convincing, [144], 17;
spirit, evil of, [457], 7
Passion, a disappointed, the wound of, [201], 43;
a god, [404], 51;
a malignant, [189], 57;
being without, [491], 2;
easier to inspire than faith, [203], 14;
employment of, apart from reason, [144], 47;
extreme, folly of, [314], 16;
fit of, an exposure, [145], 14;
function of, [329], 43;
in the soul, [562], 20;
infinite, everywhere, [334], 54;
latent in every heart, [186], 35;
long-cherished, [67], 26;
moral power of, [226], 35;
never decides aright, [297], 22;
no, can be hid, [93], 42;
not to be bought, [32], 21;
ruling, the power of a, [542], 2;
susceptibility to, [545], 37;
the power of, [559], 39, 40;
unsteadiness of, [341], 51;
versus reason, [20], 20;
volatile, [65], 20
Passionless, man, as regards evil, [143], 28
Passions, and feelings, contrasted with reason, [369], 23, 31;
as orators, [239], 13;
contrasted with conscience, [224], 32;
effect of absence on, [2], 11;
exaggerations, [10], 15; [65], 19;
general and particular, [439], 48;
gentle, fruits of, [121], 28;
great, incurable diseases, [136], 47;
hard to conceal, [363], 1;
how to treat our, [461], 25;
like rivers in their course, [249], 51;
man great by his, [263], 43; man without, worthlessness of, [92], 36;
man's, saddening, [264], 1;
our, abuse of our, [529], 31;
our, in frenzy and under reason, [338], 43;
our, like convulsion fits, [338], 44;
our, masters rather servants, [276], 34;
our, the true phœnixes, [338], 45; [556], 3;
power of the, [38], 37;
private and public, [239], 12;
Rousseau on his, [39], 2;
sayings about, [446], 47-51; [447], 1;
strong, life of manly virtues, [404], 7;
subduing, a work, [207], 8;
their duration, [225], 12;
their use and nobleness, [306], 31;
transmuted by music, [287], 1;
violent, how formed, [514], 35;
voice of the body, [46], 39;
why implanted, [291], 15;
winds of the vessel, [239], 15;
without, without principle and motive, [150], 40.
See Les passions.
Past, a form of present, [519], 5;
and future, our relation to, [521], 8;
cold dead hand of, curative of egotism, [475], 29;
court of the, [422], 5;
events, to be ignorant of, [295], 41;
great spirits of, [431], 39;
grief over, natural, [274], 28;
how to appropriate, [454], 8;
how to treat, [501], 15;
key to future, [404], 22;
lamenting, vain, [494], 2;
no concern to us, [180], 9;
no erasing the, [294], 40;
not to be lamented, [103], 47;
not to be undone, [23], 11;
not wasted if we rise on its ruins, [311], 46;
our yearning after, [15], 37;
present, and future, compared, [429], 37;
present, and future, how to regard, [252], 58;
the barbaric, study of, [264], 1;
the hours of the, [302], 22;
the, sayings about, [447], 2-7;
the soul of, in books, [185], 15;
unalterable, [312], 33
Pastime, the dearest, [65], 8
Pastor, profession of, [107], 11
Pastors, ungracious, conduct of, [71], 25
Pastures, good, [130], 3
Patch rather than a hole, [28], 27
Paternity in law, [87], 23
Pates, lean, fat paunches make, [102], 45
Path, a best, for every man, [471], 13;
the beaten, safe, [513], 43, 44;
the best, through life, [417], 53;
the direct, [61], 33;
sure and honest heart, all, [215], 28
Pathetic, the, its elements, [447], 14
Pathway, a, to be made where none visible, [548], 18
Patience, a lesson in, [75], 12;
a prayer, [432], 35;
abused, [343], 20;
against fortune, [484], 33;
an alleviator, [74], 34;
and faith, [449], 24;
and its fruit, [226], 37;
and perseverance, power of, [180], 25;
as a passion, [82], 24;
as a remedy, [15], 32;
as an antidote, [226], 39;
attained no small feat, [124], 3;
being out of, [553], 24;
better than learning, [119], 19;
commended, [558], 40; [566], 34;
cowardice in noble hearts, [414], 36;
defined, [226], 38;
exhortation to, [509], 21;
in man and wife, [314], 14;
in seeking the Lord, [394], 5;
like, on a monument, [389], 12;
more than brains, [77], 32;
nobler than beauty, [82], 23;
Kepler's, of faith, [174], 8;
oil of the lamp, [266], 23;
power of, [175], 37; [179], 38; [237], 23; [295], 48; [338], 47; [342], 55; [464], 32;
prayed for, [217], 22;
preached by all, [9], 63;
rampart of courage, [112], 53;
sort thy heart to, [400], 17;
versus haste, [54], 21;
want of, [162], 15;
want of, want of philosophy, [554], 34;
when outraged often, [117], 47;
worth the pains, [146], 20
Patient man, fury of, [29], 72
Patriot, glory of, [205], 35;
the, who saves his country, [478], 14
Patriotism, as an affection, [36], 19;
unfelt at Marathon, [413], 44;
its substitutes under despotism, [506], 21;
power of, in the heart, [315], 33
Patriots, great, excellent as men, [133], 41
Patron, Johnson's description of, [16], 22
Patronage, begging, [162], 23;
two kinds of, [505], 28
Paul and David, our opinions of, [523], 17
Paunch, a fat, without fine sense, [348], 44
Pay, a true man's, [306], 33
Pay-day, its recurrence, [569], 10
Peace, a certain, safer than an expected victory, [272], 42;
and anger, contrasted, [35], 6;
and concord, the price of, [483], 39;
and joy from content and love, [249], 19;
and plenty, the brood of, [349], 50;
and war, effects of, compared, [518], 42, 46;
beautiful, [382], 13;
becoming in men, [35], 6;
dependence of, on neighbours, [289], 6;
few qualified for, [484], 25;
first duty of citizen, [378], 24;
how alone attainable, [306], 34;
how to live in, [324], 9;
how to preserve, [490], 35;
how to secure, [240], 51; [390], 41;
in heaven and on earth, [344], 47;
life in, [149], 4;
man in, [188], 52, 53;
no, apart from ideal, [26], 58;
no, perfect, [202], 5;
no, without arms, [295], 34;
only ground of, [314], 1;
our love for, [525], 33;
sacrifices for, [467], 11;
secret of, [537], 16;
the foes of, [329], 35;
tranquil, a wish, [272], 34
Peaceful, the, peace-making, [106], 53
Peacemakers, the, [447], 16
Peaks, loftiest, in clouds, [550], 35
Pearls, give not, to swine, [123], 21;
in the deep, [185], 51;
tears, [346], 28;

to be dived for, [85], 7
Peasant, contrasted with philosopher, [460], 4;
with fowl in pot, [211], 23
Peasantry, a brave, value of, [33], 1
Pebble, casting, from hand, effect of, [199], 1
Pedagogue, the, and the age, [457], 2
Pedant, a, defined, [16], 25; [152], 48;
a female, offensive, [164], 41;
and teacher contrasted, [234], 23;
the real, [437], 8
Pedantry, defined, [54], 11;
origin and evil of, [421], 24;
vacancy, [344], 25
Pedigree, kingly, traced backwards, [534], 25;
mere, of no avail, [402], 34;
pride of, [522], 27
Peerage, the English, [530], 37
Pen, magic of, [440], 12;
mightier than sword, [447], 18;
most wonderful of tools, [296], 64;
steadying power of, [509], 39;
strokes of, to be deliberate, [455], 31
Penalty, according to offence, [4], 59;
paid by innocent, [77], 49
Penitence, better than casuistry, [200], 15
Penny, a bad, [32], 12;
to spend, I hae a, [166], 28
Penury, abyss of, [296], 56
People, a great, condition of continued power of, [448], 36;
a great, instinctive feeling of, [437], 1;
a, without religion, [253], 2;
chief glory of a, [420], 5;
choice of, measure of, [123], 42;
common-place, how to win, [333], 21;
effect of treating, as they are or should be, [546], 41;
glory of, [430], 11;
great, special gifts of God, [134], 42;
heart of a country, [234], 26;
high-class, rule of intercourse with, [187], 34;
how to move the heart of, [303], 12;
how to understand, [556], 34;
mass of, characterised, [431], 27;
most objectionable, [444], 4;
only three classes of, [468], 3;
silence of, a lesson to kings, [235], 11;
sympathetic, [408], 35;
that sing, safe to live among, [560], 12;
the, and kings, [447], 20, 23;
the, and their orators, [234], 27;
the, miscreant calling himself, [186], 44;
the, open to flattery, [312], 38;
the, supreme law of, [379], 51;
the, voice of, [347], 31;
the, voice of, to be regarded, [389], 35;
the, their fondness for deception, [353], 1;
voice of, how to regard, [461], 9;
with no annals, [140], 28;
without laws, [79], 42
Peoples, great, conservative, [9], 40
Perception, of a fact, a fact, [288], 17;
want of, fatal, [461], 17
Perdition catch my soul, [96], 16
Perfect, nothing, till humanised, [315], 32;
the, around us, [522], 34;
thing, treatment of, [362], 21
Perfection, by nature and by art, [272], 43;
claim of, [145], 40;
desire of, a disease, [423], 9;
dumb, [544], 19;
easily dispensed with, [333], 28;
end of, [540], 3;
from trifles, [499], 23;
greater, dispensable, [520], 41;
how to arrive at, [489], 37;
in art, demand for, [302], 9;
in heaven's regard and man's, [517], 18;
in one's self to be aimed at, [28], 12;
law of, [227], 3;
sought in another, [75], 4;
supreme, [537], 9;
the three sources of, [468], 30
Perfumed, like a milliner, [114], 43
Perhaps, a great, in quest of, [210], 36
Perishable, to be made imperishable, [521], 26
Perjuries, lovers', [72], 6
Perjury, the punishment of, [346], 27;
when a virtue, [234], 20
Permanence, the condition of, [354], 36
Perplexity, moral, [1], 39
Persecution, better than being shunned, [29], 15;
history of, [435], 19
Perseverance, effect of, [496], 31;
gain of, [34], 10;
law of, [438], 21;
power of, [80], 54; [96], 54; [135], 29;
rarer than effort, [227], 8;
reward of, [496], 12; [553], 26;
virtue of, [56], 38; [346], 30;
want of, [142], 34
Persistence, merit of, [346], 30, 31
Persistency, attracts confidence, [89], 27
Person, a third, annoyance to two, [82], 4;
a worthy, respected by the good, [143], 17;
mystery of a, [444], 28
Personality, great, how to respect, [492], 23
Persons, and things to be taken as they are, [276], 13;
criticising of, [476], 29;
great, behaviour towards, [498], 45;
interesting, the only, [335], 8;
the emphasis of, [425], 4;
universally treated ill, [526], 5;
who please us, [443], 14
Persuasion, and faith, power of, [279], 32;
law of, [241], 16;
power of, [104], 57; [312], 23;
susceptibility to, the rule, [336], 5
Perversion, last stage of, [438], 8
Perversities, greatest of all, [432], 29
Pervert, no, fit for kingdom of God, [303], 47
Perverted minds, effect of things on, [328], 22
Pestilence, evil of, [101], 31
Peter more feared than respected, [117], 29
Petition to God, a precept, [93], 48
Petticoat government, [32], 47
Phaëton, epitaph on, [156], 14
Phariseeism intolerable, [468], 29
Pharmacopœia, Napoleon's, [520], 28
Philanthropic, the, mistaken occupation of, [417], 31
Philanthropy, a vain, [536], 5;
mere, not the aim of life, [256], 38;
true, [482], 3;
with a flaw, [414], 5
Philina on her days and nights, [212], 13
Philip II. of Spain's boast, [170], 5
Philistinism, instance of, [203], 3
Philosopher, and the toothache, [477], 37;
and trifles, [150], 17;
characteristics of, [489], 42, 43;
content with being, [177], 16;
contrasted with peasant, [436], 15; [460], 4;
defined, [447], 34, 35;
dejection unseemly in, [56], 45;
his first business, [428], 8;
most aspiring, his proudest boast, [449], 50;
object and duty of, [445], 20;
should not swear, [324], 26;
the, and practical interests, [558], 33;
the, characteristic of, [419], 43;
true, character of, [419], 41;
without good-breeding, [452], 27;
work for a, [495], 36
Philosopher's, stone, a, [21], 23;
stone, the, [343], 60;
stone, the true, [47], 18, 23; [177], 1
Philosophers, a trouble to the world, [278], 37;
in talk, fools in art, [269], 45;
Rousseau on, [409], 18;
their opposite views of man, [398], 42
Philosophic study, the condition of, [421], 39
Philosophical, act, the true, [459], 3;
systems, worthlessness of, [550], 8
Philosophies, man's supplements of his practice, [267], 5
Philosophising, true, [383], 41
Philosophisings, cold, in presence of heart, [444], 37
Philosophism, fruit of, in France, [310], 4
Philosophy, a deliverer and a defender, [227], 5;
a genuine, [494], 11;
a test of a man's, [315], 23;
according to Plato and to Bacon, [189], 6;
after defeat, [333], 6;
and adversity, [4], 71;
and Christianity, [42], 52;
and divinity, [70], 12;
and misfortune, [227], 7;
as deceptive, [227], 6;
beginning of all, [459], 3;
best part of, [221], 12;
compared with poetry, [350], 41;
compared with religion, [372], 7, 17;
defined, [537], 3;
divine, [161], 7;
effects of little, and of depth in, [8], 48;
effect of, on one in fear, [449], 5;
existence and necessity of, [442], 6;
first qualification for, [61], 14;
function of, [516], 23;
glory of, [430], 13;
importance of, [81], 40; [559], 41;
misapplied, [521], 25;
motive to, [207], 9;
not enough, [26], 2;
permanent, [550], 7;
politics harmful to, [313], 47;
power of, [70], 9;
problem of, [449], 30;
sayings about, [447], 37, 38;
small draughts of, and large, [394], 23;
temple of, qualification for entering, [508], 3;
the beginning and end of, [192], 33;
the one, [471], 17;
the first cause of, [561], 44;
the sign of a ripened, [13], 51;
the two objects of, [423], 40;
too austere, [497], 30;
vanity of fortifying one's self with, [492], 9;
visible, [426], 17
Phocion to Demosthenes, [271], 37
Phœnix, a symbol of progress, [106], 20;
the, burning of, [190], 11
Phœnix-bird in the fire, [545], 46
Physic, hated, yet helpful, [484], 32;
the best, [533], 31;
to the dogs, [485], 42
Physician, a, to be old, [212], 48;
dispensed with, [559], 1;
must be humane, [78], 35;
no perfect, [334], 25;
profession of, [107], 11;
those who need, [479], 33;
to be honoured, [159], 50;
who has never been sick, [303], 48;
wise, usefulness of, [25], 1
Physicians, I die by the help of too many, [165], 41;
many, bad sign of a state, [226], 16;
the two best, [411], 48;
two real, [227], 37
Physiognomists, the best, [348], 24
Physique, effect of, on estimate of self, [278], 5
Picture, good, a sermon, [91], 10;
poem without words, [287], 37;
to ensure a genuine, [240], 27
Pictures, attraction of, [174], 23;
by nature, [72], 7;
good, shades and lights in, [468], 9;
importance of arrangement in, [323], 20;
pleasure in, [519], 31
Piece, a, how to compose, [119], 15
Piety, among the ruins of Iona, [413], 44;
and reason to be combined, [526], 39;
ascetic, [120], 27;
but a means, [116], 38;
defined by Cicero, [216], 30;
how best displayed, [334], 38;
real, [334], 1;
the, of a reformed man, [24], 56;
to be kept distinct from art, [345], 22
Pig, every, scrubbing, [152], 12
Pigeons, no, ready roasted, [119], 12, 13
Pilate, jesting, without eye for truth, [212], 34
Pilgrimages, profitlessness of, [148], 6
Pilgrims, few, saints, [105], 19
Pillow, a sibyl, [447], 40
Pills, sugared, [16], 56;
to be swallowed, [348], 42
Pilot, of Galilean Lake, [447], 41;
vigilance required in, [39], 41
Pilotage, in calm, [184], 8;
in storm, [184], 10
Pilots, skilful, reputation of, how gained, [393], 17
Pindar, passion of, mine, [542], 30
Pious, honoured by gods and men, [51], 38; [447], 44
Pipe, that is not played on, [540], 16
Pity, akin to humour, [164], 9;
ere charity, [36], 7;
how to show, [389], 40;
human, power of, [283], 26;
no, without rigour, [12], 46;
not hatred, [71], 44;
object of, [425], 22;
often more becoming than envy, [383], 36;
our, measure of, [527], 47;
rather than envy, [29], 27;
through severity, [396], 44;
virtue of law, [110], 38
Pitying better than condemning, [201], 26
Place, a consecrated, [46], 43;
a man below his, [152], 30;
dignified by deed, [116], 13;
preparation for a, [488], 37;
trodden by a good man, [447], 46
Places and place-holders, [63], 45
Plagiarism, Kingsley on, [301], 37
Plagiarists, honest, [10], 45
Plain, blunt man, a, [164], 49;
the perfectly, [381], 37
Plain-dealing, exceptional, [313], 37;
in disfavour, [107], 30
Plain-spokenness, an eccentricity, [177], 22
Plan, the divine, no need to understand, [155], 16
Planet, rather than moon, [166], 23;
sceptre of the, [458], 30
Plant, often removed, [16], 39
Plate, enjoyed as earthenware, [133], 37
Plato, as a thinker, [453], 7;
father of thought, [340], 10;
fruitlessness of his teachings, [314], 34;
the greatness of, [349], 19;
thought of, mine, [542], 30;
treatment of, [349], 20;
wrong with, rather than right with others, [84], 45
Plato's "Republic," 331, 27
Plausibility and truth, [355], 15
Player, and the times, [253], 6;
might teach parson, [169], 49
Playfulness after exertion, [151], 26
Playing, too much, [492], 5
Pleasant, mingled with bitter, [271], 55;
and unpleasant, matter of habit, [316], 25
Pleasantry, must be spontaneous, [101], 43;
with whom to risk, [528], 37
Please, others how to, [510], 20;
to, as a wish, [89], 4
Pleasing, art of, [416], 22;
every one pleasing none, [151], 20;
many a vain attempt, [217], 5;
no, every one, [117], 6;
pleasure of, [520], 37
Pleasure, a man of, [12], 34;
after pain, [376], 5;
and fear of the penalty, [65], 26;
and pain, [32], 35; [340], 42;
and pain, cousins german, [229], 6;
as a moralist, [474], 24;
at expense of pain, [308], 29;
blinding power of, [223], 22;
cost of, [10], 16;
diving for, [186], 9;
effect of indulgence in, [271], 20;
effect of, on sense of time, [349], 29;
effect of refinement upon, [443], 18;
evil only when enslaving, [82], 51;
excess of, criminal, [242], 32;
from activity, [93], 50;
illusory, hope of, [403], 24;
intellectual and sensual, [191], 14;
lawful, [84], 38;
looked forward to, [79], 41;
men's proneness to, [158], 46;
mere, as motive of action, [278], 23;
no compensation for pain, [31], 17;
not to be despised, [168], 6;
of the world, a dream, [362], 22;
precursor of grief, [136], 37;
pursuit of, demoralising, [147], 26;
sacrifice of, a gain, [198], 16;
sacrificing, to duty, [149], 35;
satieties of, [467], 28;
sequel to, [485], 45;
that strikes the soul, [448], 8;
the most exquisite, [234], 28;
the sweetest, [324], 28;
to an ill-conditioned being, [489], 33;
true, the fountain of, [188], 47;
without reason, result of, [407], 28;
without self-flattery, [330], 3
Pleasure-seeker, the, [448], 5
Pleasures, bitter when abused, [239], 18;
Burns on evanescence of, [33], 22;
great, rarer than great pains, [134], 43;
how enhanced, [517], 22;
how to look at, [252], 58;
like wine, [526], 14;
mental, never cloy, [278], 3;
not to be exalted, [294], 39;
of the world, the, [448], 9;
our, and pains, [339], 1;
our, how protracted, [338], 49;
temperate man's, [457], 3;
the sweetest, [325], 10;
tranquil, [498], 55
Plenty, everywhere, [271], 48
Pliability, and firmness, [179], 8;
man's, characterised, [408], 27
Plodders, continued, gain of, from other's books, [394], 25
Plodding, effect of, [480], 2;
not easy, [201], 38;
universal, evil of, [555], 32
Ploughman's clocks, [278], 32
Ploughshare, soldiers of, [397], 10
Poem, a great, suggestive, [91], 18;
a heroic, at bottom, [473], 8;
a, what makes 204, 10;
an indifferent, writing, and understanding a good, [201], 21;
as image of life, [16], 43;
heroic, qualification for composing, [153], 2;

qualities of a true, [110], 40; [310], 35;
true, writer of, his reward, [437], 10;
which is not sung, [536], 40
Poems, all great, foundation of, [324], 24;
by mere water-drinkers, [318], 15;
for the day and for all time, [138], 41;
heroic, how to produce, [241], 17;
old, sacred, [380], 24;
painted window-panes, [119], 18
Poesy, difficulties in, [316], 31;
immortal, [227], 15;
spirit of, [454], 37
Poet, a, defined, [486], 19;
a, for everything, [75], 21;
a, how to understand, [556], 25;
a necessary qualification for, [559], 27;
a, of superior merit, not to be described, [384], 28;
a, on canvas, same as in song, [16], 47;
a word for, [409], 29;
akin to madman, [24], 17;
always waited for, [426], 22;
and his inspiration, [203], 37;
as representing a class of men, [273], 40;
as revealer of beauty, [150], 50;
business of, [489], 39;
by birth, [350], 36;
coin of a, [163], 6;
delight of, in wandering, [80], 3;
distinguished from prophet, [449], 46;
dramatic, Horace on, [370], 40;
dramatic, two qualifications of, [503], 36;
everywhere in his place, [549], 20;
eyes to other men, [284], 14;
function of, [64], 21; [206], 37;
genius necessary to, [489], 40;
God the perfect, [127], 5;
great, limitedness of, [311], 27;
high watch-tower of, [59], 48;
his resources, [406], 17;
how formed, [492], 32;
licence conceded to, [348], 25;
like the eagle, [444], 31;
lyric and epic, beverages of, [440], 11;
native land of, [444], 31;
Nature's teaching to, [531], 35;
nothing useless to a, [489], 24;
object of, [445], 19;
of to-day, and the wealth he inherits, [522], 12;
often child of love, [325], 34;
pen of, tempered with love's sighs, [296], 19;
qualification of, [252], 4;
qualifications for, [303], 2, 3;
satirical, a check, [18], 60;
sayings about, [448], 11-19;
scared by the mob, [322], 8;
sign of the, [453], 33;
spirit required of, [237], 4;
suffering necessary to, [426], 23;
the, advice to, [558], 41;
the, and troubles of life, [540], 18;
the, attributes of, [16], 44-46;
the business of, [14], 16;
the complete, his outfit, [421], 16;
the eye of, [470], 21;
the high priesthood of, [550], 41;
the irreligious, [437], 13;
the note-book of, [426], 30;
the only teller of news, [446], 21;
the struggle of the, [93], 51;
the true, [459], 4-6;
to be, one must be a poem, [152], 54;
to sing to himself and the Muses, [34], 59;
what he has to cultivate and shun, [539], 2;
what it is to be a, [489], 44;
what makes a, [198], 49;
what makes the, [373], 11;
with nothing to interpret and reveal, [174], 29;
without poetic frenzy, [554], 27;
who entitled to be called, [50], 48;
work for a, [495], 36
Poet's gift, Horace's admiration of, [182], 8
Poetasters, conceit of, [218], 23
Poetic, art, destiny of, [508], 31;
genius, the test of, [457], 13;
pains, a pleasure in, [470], 16
Poet-priest still waited for, [465], 14
Poetry, ancient and modern, contrasted, [448], 20;
and prose, defined, [358], 20;
and words, [562], 12;
as an educator of children, [411], 14;
at bottom, [313], 4;
attractive power of, [24], 39;
averse to reasoning, [71], 32;
born of pain or sorrow, [350], 33;
by a bad man, [389], 37;
compared with painting, [340], 51;
contrasted with science, [382], 37; [383], 2;
elements or subjects of, [425], 3;
essence of, [426], 1;
from an engineer, [566], 27;
good, personification, [130], 5;
how to understand, [565], 19;
if nonsense, when reduced to prose, [200], 2;
in common lives, [476], 20;
inferior, denounced, [193], 47;
its dwelling-place, [372], 27;
its relation to philosophy, [345], 8;
its sadness objected to, [535], 34;
lyric, [258], 26;
mediocre, [466], 32;
mistaken test of, [198], 13;
must be of ideas, [184], 22;
not dead, [372], 27;
not the thing now wanted, [358], 11;
nursed by wrong, [284], 42;
of eighteenth century, [339], 2;
old-fashioned, character of, [327], 13;
organic, [377], 19;
popular, fault of, [448], 13;
second-rate, condemned, [558], 42;
surpassed by music, [286], 47;
the elevating power of, [200], 44;
the essence of, [369], 19;
the kingdom of, [54], 24;
the life of, [562], 12;
the only, [335], 11; [446], 12;
transporting, [315], 35;
true, in the fields, [567], 33;
true, truer than science, [500], 29;
value and dignity of, [559], 42;
value of, [565], 19;
who has no ear for, [532], 10;
without taste for, [150], 38
Poets, at first and at last, [528], 2;
a question about, [487], 45;
and poverty, [354], 16;
but two orders of, [503], 48;
contrasted with orators, [289], 42;
good, inspired interpreters, [130], 6;
great, and their readers, [310], 22;
great, best qualities in, [10], 30;
great, how their works have been read, [464], 3;
great, of slow growth, [315], 12;
great (see Great Poets);
make witty, [157], 22;
mediocrity in, [272], 2;
modern, Goethe on, [281], 29;
nature-made, [291], 50;
our, Emerson on, [339], 3;
sensitive, [121], 48;
their wish, [24], 21;
three, of Greece, Italy, and England, [485], 23;
to be fed, not pampered, [84], 16
Poison, slow, dangerous, [16], 48; [79], 12;
those that need, [479], 14
Polarity, our own, our law, [521], 30
Policy, and incidents, [192], 55;
object of all true, [445], 15;
the best, [35], 9
Polish, what is alone susceptible of, [335], 22
Polite people, excessively, designing, [347], 5
Politeness, benefit of, [28], 19;
defined, [227], 16;
estimable, [376], 51;
morally rooted, [301], 46;
of wise and fools, [462], 31;
only source of, [446], 24;
true, [38], 19;
value of, [474], 6;
wise and foolish, [21], 61
Political, economy, real science of, [450], 43;
watchword, highest, [435], 5
Politician, object and duty of, [445], 20
Politicians and statesmen, contrasted, [455], 10
Politics, as gambling, [472], 41;
bungling in, hateful, [166], 30;
philosophy harmful to, [313], 47;
sayings about, [189], 8-10;
subject to circumstances, [475], 24;
too rigorous, [497], 30
Polonius, advice of, to Laërtes, [123], 30
Pomp, insignificance of, [123], 13
Poniards, she speaks, [389], 14
Poor, and rich, [126], 15, 16;
and sins of rich, [59], 29;
compared with rich, [451], 24-27, 32;
considering, [30], 49;
fate of devourer of the, [37], 54;
giving to, [123], 46; [146], 21;
ignorance of, Carlyle on, [203], 35;
in purse, [18], 17;
man, a, [137], 46; [141], 23; [147], 53;
man, a, and a liar, [423], 8;
man, a really, [441], 5;
man, according to Emerson, [143], 53;
man, despised, [343], 47;
man, how, may become rich, [34], 1;
man, put to shifts, [158], 29;
man who is, [304], 12;
mercy to, blessed, [146], 50;
not to be robbed, [377], 43;
once, poor always, [386], 30;
man, become rich, pride of, [180], 2;
spectres that accompany, [203], 35;
spirit, mark of, [489], 5;
the alone truly, [319], 14;
the, obsequious to rich, [63], 50;
the, pity for, in a storm, [352], 37;
the poverty of, [423], 14;
the, sayings about, [448], 23-27;
the tillage of, [285], 12;
the uncomplaining, [59], 28;
the wretchedness of, [328], 40;
who think themselves so, [304], 10
Poorest, in his cottage, safety of, [448], 31;
place, plenty of, [448], 10
Pope, not born for high life, [169], 2;
of his religion, [408], 33;
on his verses, [173], 24
Pope's prayer for charity, [411], 12
Populace, the, insolence of, [129], 2
Popular, man and original contrasted, [448], 33;
the, characterises the people, [94], 48
Popularity, defined, [227], 17;
evanescence of, [124], 28;
fleeting, [181], 18;
sudden, [406], 4;
to be shunned, [51], 31
Portion, the best, [409], 31
Portraits, ancestral, in a mirror, [13], 43;
the best, [417], 54
Position, contentment with one's, commended, [566], 17;
filling of, main thing, [125], 36
Positive, as legible as negative, [483], 45;
and egative, universal in nature, [94], 26;
and negative universal, [174], 42, 43
Possess, how to, [39], 12;
who deserve to, [479], 53
Possessing and possessed, [519], 13
Possession, a permanent, [166], 34;
an acknowledged title, [385], 25;
as justifying right, [27], 22;
by right, [79], 33;
condition of true, [316], 43;
not mere fame, [206], 38;
of good things, effect on us of, [559], 5;
the only real, [167], 34;
thorough, a test of, [539], 44;
true, condition of, [520], 4
Possessions, a blessing or a curse, [138], 48;
of which one has more than he knows, [324], 47;
our, and wishes, [331], 18;
inherited, to be employed, [82], 56
Possible, ever possible, [415], 2
Post, a vacant, effect of filling, [498], 44;
our, not to be deserted, [527], 32
Posterity, our duty to, [527], 40;
our obligations to, [535], 21;
the judgment of, [47], 7
Posture-maker, the best, [291], 52
Pot, a little, [77], 30;
of ale, fame for, [169], 24
Poultry, world peopled with, [291], 48
Poverty, a calamity, [18], 17;
a drawback in life, [490], 34;
a hindrance to virtue, [1], 34;
a master, [467], 27;
and love, incompatible, [544], 10;
and reproach, [490], 23;
and vice, [518], 33;
a teacher, [150], 44;
better than cowardice, [197], 28;
better than vice, [29], 16;
chill air of, [3], 5;
condition of, without freedom, [88], 38;
contentment with, commended, [236], 1;
contrasted with avarice, [62], 43;
craft of, [18], 18;
cramping effect of, [141], 25;
direct road to, [397], 40;
discredit of, [24], 42;
disgrace of, [259], 36;
effect of, [394], 15;
effect of, on native character, [314], 11;
from sloth, [103], 14;
hard to bear, [78], 31;
hard to gild, [208], 11;
honest, [159], 32;
how so galling, [299], 41;
key to, [394], 5;
measure of, [148], 3;
national, incompatible with national prosperity, [334], 9;
no evil to a genuine man, [109], 3;
of spirit, God's delight, [18], 15;
real, [17], 4; [358], 4;
sayings about, [343], 50-52;
security of, [149], 17;
shame of, [388], 33;
standard of, [93], 21;
stronger than wealth, [26], 5;
the evil of, [530], 32;
the sixth sense, [18], 16;
the worst kind of, [55], 23;
to be hidden, [227], 2;
when one is down, [547], 3;
which oppresses a nation, evil of, [132], 44
Power, a, over and behind us, [470], 19;
a test of character, [474], 25;
always jealous, [318], 13;
an unseen, shadow of, [416], 38;
and fate, [102], 48;
and impotence, what determines, [533], 34;
arbitrary, how established, [17], 27;
constraining, how to be free from, [517], 27;
earthly, when likest God's, [14], 41;
everywhere, [247], 13;
excessive, end of, [19], 8;
how retained, [183], 37;
innate lust for, [88], 35;
lawless, weakness of, [121], 57;
love of, a childish passion, [256], 9;
our absolute, limited to ourselves, [340], 23;
over others, condition of, [211], 47;
pains and pleasures of, [446], 40;
persuasiveness of, [122], 13;
possessor of, [60], 12;
responsibility in relinquishing, [297], 40;
royal, firm as a rock of iron, [170], 9;
sovereign, the secret of, [386], 13;
the arrogance of, [299], 6;
the basis of all, [10], 18;
the desire of, an effect of, [423], 10;
the impression of, due to mass, [4], 56;
the secret of, [319], 7;
true, silent, [11], 33;
unjust, to be let fall, [323], 27;
unlimited, a risk, [304], 23;
when apparent, [10], 17;
wielded with violence or moderation, [514], 36;
with age, [549], 23;
without justice, [216], 26
Powerful, the most, [353], 28
Powers, one's, not to be dissipated, [380], 7;
unseen, Wordsworth's faith in, [311], 52
Practice, and preaching, [355], 56;
and theory, [466], 22;
better than preaching, [15], 67;
effect of, [94], 39; [504], 43;
everything, [272], 40;
power of, [96], 53;
without Nature and learning, [292], 35
Prairies, the, [462], 18
Praise, and dispraise, alike, [486], 7;
assumption of him who praises another, [531], 37;
but not of one's self, [240], 23;
by letter, [483], 38;
from love, effect of, [449], 3;
generally for praise, [330], 16;
greed of, mark of weakness, [391], 4;
ground of, [231], 23;
more difficult than flattery, [269], 26;
not to be too hasty, [528], 39;
received, our estimate of, [92], 34;
rule in, [384], 11;
the refusal of, [234], 41;
undeserved, effect of, on an honest heart, [498], 30;
unqualified, evil of, [313], 49; vain, [475], 27;
when deserved, [170], 19
Praising everybody, praising nobody, [152], 5
Prayer, a perfect, [19], 34;
a short, [211], 29;
an impotent, [62], 9;
answered, as offered, [125], 13;
as a wish, [430], 5;
as teaching, [303], 32;
before labour, [526], 34;
condition of answer to, [153], 39;
course of, unknown, [421], 43;
defined, [227], 18;
efficacy of, [19], 46;
for grace or guidance, [172], 29;
in heaven's sight, [187], 23;
mental (see Mental prayer);
no, no prospering, [149], 42;
no, no religion, [306], 43;
power of, [23], 38;
proper matter of, [313], 26;
the greatest, [432], 35;

the greeting of the day, [107], 2;
to ourselves, efficacy of, [539], 35;
unknown power of, [283], 41;
versus practice, [503], 31;
what's in, [549], 36;
when angry, [543], 40
Prayerless men, [534], 5
Prayers, denied, a benefit, [525], 1;
forced, not good, [112], 14;
only cries of babes, [534], 4;
short, [389], 30;
that journey far, [398], 43
Praying, best, [144], 56;
dependent on living, [311], 25;
disturbed by working, [105], 24;
idle, [555], 2;
soul, waiting of, [449], 4;
striving, [28], 7;
that is vain, [293], 20
Preacher, and apostle, different aims of, [224], 11;
compared with his sermons, [301], 4;
not to be judged, [214], 10;
the best, [144], 57;
the true, [459], 7;
under the gallows, [93], 17;
who preaches with effect, [476], 15
Preaching, effective, [30], 11;
in wilderness or highway, [552], 36;
object of, [445], 17;
to the unwilling, [329], 10;
when angry, [543], 40;
with a full belly, [76], 26
Precedent, origin of, [333], 39
Precedents, bad, from good beginnings 328, 15;
creating, [387], 44
Precept and example, effects of, [355], 9, 58
Precepts, effect of, [276], 43;
rigorous religious, endorsed by abandoned men, [307], 26
Precipitancy often instructive, [79], 11
Precipitation, evil of, [504], 20
Precocity, evil of, [398], 38; fate of, [11], 48
Predecessor, to equal, [492], 12
Predestination, M. Aurelius on, [541], 10
Preferment, affected scorn of, [269], 43;
chances of, [149], 6
Prejudice, an old, need created by destroying, [546], 34;
reasoning against, [370], 8
Prejudices, how to treat, [307], 47;
laying aside, a work, [207], 8;
moral, stop-gaps of virtue, [283], 14;
one's own, to be cast out, [265], 34
Presbyter, new, old priest, [297], 30
Presence, a good, value of, [6], 51;
effect of a, silent, [334], 10
Present, a potent divinity, [64], 20;
absurd feeling about the, [476], 26;
alone ours, [82], 54;
and future, Fichte's view of, [288], 9;
and the future, [234], 37, 38;
complacence in comparing, with past, [201], 4;
for whom, [234], 38;
how to treat, [501], 15;
importance of, [449], 10;
in life, [182], 31;
its comprehensiveness, [449], 9, 14;
man's business solely with, [415], 1;
man's tyrant, [265], 4;
never in our thoughts, [175], 43;
sufficiency of, [140], 23;
sum of past and future, [414], 34;
the, ignored, [521], 24;
the, importance of seizing, [79], 18;
the possession of, [462], 13;
the, underrated, [322], 22;
those commonplace, [415], 28;
time, characterised, [339], 4;
time, in labour, [477], 25;
time, Ruskin on, [557], 38;
time, the, [272], 32; [438], 31;
time, the, in birth pangs, [285], 16;
to be employed, [36], 27;
to be enjoyed, [71], 12; [529], 5;
value of, [92], 40
Presents, giving, rather than paying debts, [268], 56;
the most acceptable, [2], 44;
the quality in, [546], 17
Press, daily, Goethe on, [10], 59;
sayings about, [449], 15-17
Presumption, of a spiritual nature, [281], 31;
the source of, [204], 43
Pretensions, folly of our, [522], 10
Prevention, before both law and crime, [231], 42
Price, nothing without, [539], 42
Pride, a, commended, [470], 2; a noble, [469], 28;
a passing flower, [75], 51;
a shameless liar, [391], 19;
abhorrent, to gods, [86], 16;
always injurious, [303], 36;
and debt, [224], 13;
and ingratitude, combined, [566], 39;
angry, folly of, [325], 36;
as a tax, [170], 33, 34;
characteristics of, [147], 16;
commended, [27], 48;
debasing power of, [209], 22;
effect of subdued, [542], 19;
enraged, as a counsellor, [266], 23;
extreme, ignorance, [60], 18;
followed by shame, [242], 34;
from ignorance, [446], 34;
gifts of, [511], 24;
Highland, [409], 9;
how to lessen one's, [176], 14;
in man, [261], 50;
less, nobler the blood, [213], 4;
matter of shame, [527], 36;
misery of, [444], 8;
reasoning, evil of, [189], 17;
the food of, [107], 28;
with the mask off, [194], 52
Priest, a Christian, Chaucer's idea of, [33], 4;
lying, in dark ages, [302], 49;
his love for his flock, [61], 16; [449], 19;
the world's, [458], 52
Priestcraft, the support of, [277], 26
Priesthood, all men's vocation, [524], 20;
of father and mother, [252], 46
Priests, effect of their conduct on church, [239], 26;
false, St. Augustine on, [286], 6;
real and sham, [18], 59
Prime Minister, no, explicit, [302], 51
Primrose, by river's brim, [16], 64
Prince, born a, a misfortune, [390], 16;
first servant of state, [59], 56;
greatest merit of, [357], 1;
how to forfeit favour of, [150], 16;
manners of, effect of, [239], 7;
qualities of a, [393], 8
Princes, and their subjects, [519], 8;
and wise men, [61], 35;
false praise of, insult, [253], 36;
hands and ears of, [118], 7;
fault in, [199], 24;
the clemency of, a lure, [224], 28
Princes' favours, wretchedness of depending on,
321, 2
Principle, a new, value of, [15], 4;
steadfastness to, [167], 22
Principles, developed apart from men, [104], 42;
our, in frenzy and under reason, [338], 43;
right, knowledge of, versus love of, [151], 28;
righteous, principal thing, [275], 38;
steadfastness of, [104], 12;
where no, whims, [151], 7
Printing-press, power of, [535], 16
Prisoner and free man contrasted, [449], 26
Private, affairs, talking of, [469], 38;
soldier in France, [498], 39
Privilege, defined, [357], 15;
our pride in, [538], 6
Probabilities, a thousand, short of one truth, [279], 26
Problem, a palpably hopeless, [123], 41;
our first, [206], 11
Problems, soluble and insoluble, [263], 5
Procrastination, danger of, [162], 34;
evil of, [540], 14
Prodigal compared with miser, [449], 31
Prodigals, as regards money, [49], 14
Production, greater than expansion or decoration, [449], 32;
law of, [252], 2
Profane, negatively defined, [315], 36
Profanity, no, where no fane, [469], 12
Profession, a man's, his master, [167], 17;
no, without its troubles, [174], 31;
one, enough for a man, [493], 38
Professions, five great intellectual, [107], 11
Professors, great, [483], 16
Profit, contrary views of, [284], 31;
late, better than none, [58], 45;
no, except through pleasure, [306], 47
Profitable things, the casting away of, [419], 29
Profits, moderate, [166], 18;
slender, but often, [219], 39
Profundity to be avoided, [11], 29
Progress, delight in sense of, [513], 32;
dependent on man's energy, [446], 14;
due to grumblers, [549], 2;
human, great steps in, not due to reason, [521], 46;
no pause in, [292], 6;
no, retrogression, [150], 5;
no, with half a will, [12], 53;
no, without grumbling, [566], 42;
often backward, [72], 43;
often illusory, [273], 28;
or retrogression, [10], 31;
social, a degeneracy, [17], 2;
symbolised by burning of Phœnix, [106], 20;
the secret of, [312], 24;
steps of, [94], 9;
when we make most, [330], 30; [333], 22
Prohibition, as a charm, [225], 7
Projecting to accomplishing, a long road, [232], 53
Prometheus, fire of, dangerous to handle, [267], 3;
rather than Epimetheus, [221], 34
Prometheus Vinctus, the unregenerate, the misery of, [496], 15
Promise, a debt, [17], 3; [152], 6;
a gift, [495], 7;
a, unfulfilled, [473], 1;
a, we may trust, [501], 8;
and performance, [10], 20;
disappointment of, [161], 36;
given and broken, [449], 34;
versus performance, [14], 15
Promised Land, the, [449], 35
Promises, extravagant, [148], 10;
lavish, evil of, [231], 26
Promising, and fulfilling, between, [570], 9;
and hoping, [357], 60;
and performing, rule in, [528], 3;
at death, [566], 9;
slow in, faithful in performing, [151], 12
Propensities, evil, subduable, [301], 44
Propensity, natural, stubborn, [541], 8
Proper and honourable, inseparable, [56], 41
Property, bequest of, [547], 18;
defined by Proudhon, [227], 19;
got dishonestly, fate of, [58], 13;
ill got, [261], 11, 12;
in others, right of, [527], 42;
our own, small, [521], 3;
parting with, before death, [152], 3;
pleasure in, how spoiled, [312], 10;
right of, [289], 14;
right to, and the sanction, [306], 48;
right to, Xenophon on, [480], 31;
who should hold, [479], 22
Prophecies, belief in, most pernicious of superstitions, [324], 39
Prophecy, our gift of, whence, [522], 8;
voice of, [461], 7;
wisely denied us, [122], 35
Prophet, a, not less a man, [127], 56;
among every people, [93], 43;
distinguished from poet, [449], 46;
not honoured at home, [17], 5;
to every people, [125], 54
Prophets, armed and unarmed, [10], 37;
false, [29], 68; [560], 29;
the art of, [287], 6;
the teaching of all, [220], 5;
unconscious, all, [520], 43
Propriety sacrificed to pleasure, [289], 27
Prose, and verse, difference between writing, [497], 7;
of seventeenth century, [339], 2;
speaking, without knowing it, [99], 50; [181], 23;
writer, ranked as sage, [202], 25;
writing, ancient and modern, [445], 31
Proselytes, man's pleasure in making, [262], 30
Proselytising, a natural ambition, [494], 21
Prosperity, a comparison, [395], 16;
and friendship, [227], 21;
behaviour in, [89], 11;
condition of beholding, [302], 53;
continuous, hard to bear, [94], 28;
different effects of, [171], 32;
effect of, on temper, [104], 18;
effect of sudden, [259], 15;
forgetful, [224], 24;
in our own hands, [277], 29;
its attendant languor, [471], 24;
man's, the secret of, [302], 49;
moral effect of, [258], 12;
national, incompatible with national poverty, [334], 9;
no, above discouragement, [303], 38;
no, by falsehood, [302], 49;
no, enjoyable without adversity, [303], 44;
of another, to rejoice in, [495], 17;
past, memory of, [110], 31;
road to, [140], 34;
temper in, [5], 13;
the rule for, [189], 22;
to one unaffected by adversity, [390], 20;
unhinging, [295], 38;
virtue of, [460], 42
Protestantism, effect of, on the character, [37], 1;
modern, and the cross, [281], 30
Protestation, to be distrusted, [265], 14
Protesting, evil of, [423], 37
Proud, man, in authority, [33], 15;
man, in the eye of angels, [324], 35;
inwardly a beggar, [414], 6;
man, often mean, [449], 49;
the, appeal to, [409], 28;
the, compared with the vain, [511], 3;
the, their affectation, [50], 32;
the, their humiliation, [455], 25;
the truly, [440], 36;
thought for the, [111], 41
Proudhon's ideal of society, [288], 5
Proverb, defined, [17], 8;
described, [17], 9;
good, ingredients of, [386], 48;
Lord J. Russell's definition of, [463], 33;
the spiritual force of, [476], 13
Proverbial sayings, [467], 35
Proverbs, convincing power of, [415], 9;
of the wise to be studied, [62], 26;
significance of, [429], 49;
William Penn on, [462], 28
Providence, a frowning, [27], 8;
an inference from history, [291], 2;
and an inert people, [486], 24;
and one's wish, [566], 41;
and things as they are, [168], 5;
faith in, not to slacken effort, [550], 27;
faith of men of thought, [284], 12;
God's, the measure of, [128], 6;
no freezing, [301], 56;
those who watch, [480], 22;
to be trusted 390, 14;
trust in, Mahomet on, [486], 17;
watching, [148], 57;
ways of, our knowledge of, [207], 22;
with the intelligent, [128], 13
Prudence, a guardian angel, [318], 29, 30;
a virtue of old age, [411], 44;
and fortune, [202], 54;
as guide, [65], 12;
contrasted with genius, [120], 9;
defeated by tenderness, [450], 4;
defined, [113], 12; [432], 27;
from time, [486], 38;
in matters of, the rule, [187], 58;
the first to forsake the wretched, [280], 28;
the one, [445], 39;
the part of, [450], 5;
the sanctuary of, [382], 20;
want of, [518], 33
Prudent, favoured by chance, [39], 39;
man and his time, [431], 24;
people, how they profit, [37], 17
Psyche's one word, [453], 47
Public, as judges, [569], 42;
as master, [152], 18;
as patrons of genius, characterised, [139], 10;
calamity, the chief, [485], 8;
composition of, [234], 39;
how caught, [330], 42;
men, wise character of, [359], 27;
opinion, hard to defy, [277], 14;
opinion without a sovereign, [449], 23;
servant to, poor animals, [151], 19;
spirit, ages of, [415], 42;
the, described, [54], 22;
the judgment of, [295], 32;
the sayings about, [450], 7-12;
the servant of, [42], 26;
who serves, [554], 23
Pudding, cold and love, [44], 27
Pulpit, teaching of, and training of the marketplace, [450], 13;
whose voice reaches farthest, [324], 38
Punctuality, and kings, [223], 12;
important, [80], 4;
Nelson's, [166], 35;
strict, the virtue of, [403], 37
Punishment, and crime, [51], 5 (see Crime);
benefit of, [330], 24;
by the laws, [438], 29;
contrasted with forgiveness, [277], 55;
corporeal and pecuniary, [329], 4;
dreaded and deserved, [126], 52;
for one's own actions, [430], 24;
injustice in, compensated, [138], 6;
rule in, [318], 2;
sayings about, [450], 14, 15;
the greatest, [356], 48; [473], 3;
the rudest, [473], 21;
unfailing, [368], 11
Punsters, Holmes on, [345], 9
Pupil often outstrips master, [325], 41
Purchase, the time to, [76], 29
Pure, the, a characteristic of, [541], 4;
heart, God's throne, [403], 8
Pureness, Goethe's prayer for, [271], 28
Purgation, now rather than hereafter, [200], 21
Puritans, the, and their work, [479], 7;
their legacy to the world, [539], 3
Purity, and simplicity,

[392], 9;
of aim, attainment of, [154], 34;
only from purity, [5], 52;
the, required, [495], 41
Purpose, fixed, necessity of, [222], 8;
increasing, through the ages, [564], 37;
of things, question unscientific, [450], 30;
one, at a time, [177], 12;
prosecution of, [112], 51;
single, value of, [462], 3;
steadfastness of, [530], 3;
to be followed by deed, [428], 47;
when in one's power, to be carried out, [546], 15
Purposes, effect of, on the mind, [442], 17;
good, in churchyard, [269], 4;
how often broken, [539], 23;
wrecked, cause of, [207], 5
Purse, a beggar's, [1], 19;
a common, effect of having, [546], 25;
as a friend, [63], 53;
full of other men's money, [413], 21;
in the head, [171], 14;
man who has lost, [169], 36;
the, its importance, [450], 19;
who steals my, [552], 37
Purses among friends 124, 12
Pursuit, enchantment of, [206], 8;
the pleasure of, [10], 57
Pushing man, deference to, [525], 37
Pyramid, two that reach the top of, [469], 2
Pyramids, antiquity of, [73], 46;
the, [450], 20
Pyrenees, no longer any, [180], 23
Q
Quack talent, the two sources of, [459], 29
Qualities, bad, akin to good, [88], 24;
natural, superiority of, [444], 33;
that ruin, rather than raise, [407], 30;
too high, inconvenience of, [497], 32
Quarrel, pretext for, easily found, [177], 20;
proneness to, [484], 2
Quarrelling, and both feeling in the wrong, [276], 40;
blame of, [52], 22;
no time for, [422], 42;
with ourselves, [522], 19
Quarrels, entrance to, [29], 67;
how to prevent, [504], 10;
others', meddling with, [148], 2; [145], 20;
why prolonged, [239], 22
Question, test of a man in answering, [489], 34;
the vexing, [518], 25
Questioning, much, effect of, [552], 22;
prudent, value of, [359], 24;
the value of, [148], 12
Questionings, curious, [274], 3
Questions, old vexed, now sorrowfully solving themselves, [327], 20;
test of a man, [214], 38;
when to answer, [207], 10
Quickness, evil of too much, [559], 7
Quotation, a fine, [5], 46;
classical, [43], 48;
justified, [168], 20;
the value of, [462], 29
Quotations, Burns' fancy for, [168], 15
R
Rabble, the supreme powers, [109], 14
Rabelais' last words, [210], 36
Race, a humble, how ennobled, [131], 3;
always moving, [436], 28;
not hybrids, respected by Nature, [292], 20
Races, growing effeminacy of, [239], 23
Rage, how to treat, [335], 51;
of love turned to hatred, [154], 3
Rags, disgraceful, [277], 41
Railway travelling, Ruskin's estimate of, [128], 25
Rain, continual, effect of, on blossoms, [320], 4
Rainbow as a sign, [450], 33
Rainy day, for unlearned, [165], 49
Rake at another's expense, [281], 3
Rank, but the guinea's stamp, [109], 16;
concern about, [467], 34;
high, a burden, [132], 45;
not happiness, [209], 14;
vanity of, [490], 43
Raphael, Lessing on, [367], 55
Rare, the, seldom forgotten, [319], 5
Rascal, putting, to confusion, [297], 44
Rascals, how to diminish, [260], 48
Rash, none, when not seen, [311], 11
Rashness, a fault of youth, [411], 44;
discouraged, [4], 68;
effect of, [394], 13;
effect of, on business, [141], 5
Rational, and real, [520], 20;
compared with beautiful, [331], 48
Raven, brought up, still a raven, [80], 25
Read, how to, with profit, [303], 21;
things to, [368], 49
Read, not, not written, [310], 37;
who has, little, [171], 24
Reader, a good, [489], 2;
and author, [240], 2;
and the book he reads, [93], 55;
good, rare, [6], 52;
how to interest a, [299], 5
Readers, busy, [32], 62
Reading, a benefit to few, [469], 6;
a rule for, [297], 18;
advice in regard to, [208], 15;
advices on, [369], 1, 2;
as an entertainment, [301], 38;
counsels for, [235], 45;
experiment in, [502], 45;
harmful to fools, [540], 35;
how to profit from, [175], 19;
idling, [212], 26;
importance of, [565], 24;
John Morley on, [433], 1;
miscellaneous, to be avoided, [280], 19;
mistake about, [483], 37;
much, effect of, [285], 23;
much, Hobbes on, [172], 37;
much, the moral effect of, compared with seeing, [12], 50;
object of, [445], 18;
frequent, not enough, [198], 35;
rule for, [528], 5;
the most pleasant and profitable, [30], 21;
the object of, [368], 50;
to doubt or scorn, [14], 39; [139], 34;
twice, the benefit of, [537], 28;
value of, [77], 7;
what is not worth, twice, [536], 43;
without reflecting, [495], 11;
worst kind of, [17], 56
Real, and Ideal far apart, [115], 33;
as contrasted with possible, [234], 40;
man, a, defined by Mencius, [153], 9;
rational, [520], 20;
the, for ever, [219], 54;
the, how to measure, [271], 43;
the, to be idealised, [539], 33
Realities, hard to discern, [391], 26
Reality, always nobler than fancy, [90], 49;
and fancy, the provinces of, [101], 48;
and imagination, the worlds of, [465], 7;
behind appearances, [481], 34;
better than imagination, [14], 14;
importance of, [205], 21;
minus appearance, [61], 23;
only, supportable, [316], 18;
the only, [482], 12;
the product of, how to regard, [241], 47;
truth of, why unrecognised, [105], 12
Reaping, more difficult than sowing, [495], 45;
the rule in, [510], 28
Reason, a misuse of, [207], 18;
a rare guide, [162], 20;
against a crowd with stones, [535], 37;
agreeableness to, as a test, [298], 19;
and contingency, [462], 1;
and knowledge, [513], 10;
and necessity, [462], 1;
and instinct contrasted, [172], 46;
and piety, to be combined, [526], 39;
and prudence, in conduct, [241], 44;
and religion, [372], 6;
and spirit, two aspects of one thing, [414], 37;
and understanding, objects of, [67], 2;
being without, [491], 2;
compared with fancy, [526], 20;
elevating power of, [68], 20;
every man's, his oracle, [92], 42, 44;
functions of, [329], 43; [504], 2;
its rank, [435], 4;
like drunk man on horseback, [163], 29;
like sweet bells jangled, [317], 38;
loss compared with deprivation of, [458], 15;
misapplied, [468], 22;
no, upon compulsion, [123], 38;
not to fust unused, [407], 29;
once passion, [537], 4;
origin of, [102], 3;
our chart, [46], 35;
our delight in, abuse of, [337], 37;
relation of, to revelation, [375], 12;
sacredness of, [148], 33;
service under, advantage of, [152], 19;
sound and sufficient, the lot of few, [400], 22;
sovereign with the noble, [15], 52;
the function of, Cicero on, [368], 31;
the pilot, [239], 15;
the use of, [53], 39;
those who have no, [127], 6;
true, its power, [500], 36;
truths of, not dependent on facts, [421], 32;
versus blind force, [350], 24;
versus faith, [20], 20;
without the light of divine truth, [352], 6;
worse appear better, [157], 15, 16
Reasonable, or unreasonable, asking what is, [194], 33;
the, open to every one, [217], 7
Reasoner, a wise, [551], 7
Reasoning mule, obstinacy of, [17], 41
Reasons, nothing to the chaff, [133], 5;
our own, our satisfaction in, [331], 4;
strong, effect of, [404], 8
Rebellion, no equity under, [471], 37
Rebels, treatment of, [47], 38
Reckoning, when banquet's o'er, [394], 48;
without host, [41], 21
Reckonings, short, [389], 31
Recollection, a happy, [505], 39;
inferior to pertinency, [139], 14
Recompense, [381], 19;
Fénelon on his, [284], 18;
rule of, [21], 19
Reconciliation, desire for, as a prognostic, [238], 30
Recreation, necessity of, [111], 12
Redress, the surest way to, [456], 30
Refined man, characteristic of, [452], 12
Refinement, what contributes to, [540], 34
Reflection, commentary on experience, [97], 28;
noble, [34], 19;
they who practise not, [479], 21;
value of, [77], 7
Reform, evil of unsuccessful attempts at, [22], 10;
not joyous, but grievous, [305], 28
Reformation, attended by a great licentiousness, [6], 67;
salve of, in ignorance of the sore, [452], 23;
the, egg of, [84], 24;
the only solid, [495], 15;
unconscious, [528], 9
Reformers, error of our, [206], 17
Reforming a world or a nation, [495], 15
Reforms, great, negative as well as positive, [91], 19;
history of, [435], 20;
how far effective, [9], 59;
necessary, how helped, [127], 8;
our, not radical, [539], 22
Refusal, a friendly, [28], 30;
less than nothing, [17], 46
Refusing, in, the "no" only heard, [266], 1
Regard, how to win, [42], 13
Regeneration accompanied with travail, [12], 7
Regimenting men, importance of, [202], 44
Regret, no, no amendment, [147], 38
Reign, to, worth ambition, [495], 16
Rejected of man, accepted of God, [112], 1
Relations, hard to discern, [391], 26;
hatred among, [2], 53;
our, character of, [339], 9;
our, and our friends', how chosen, [339], 10
Relationships, one's, requirement in, [10], 28
Relatives, by chance, [235], 16
Religion, a bigotry, [524], 29;
a cloak, [165], 5;
a fruit of time, [486], 32;
a God, [398], 40;
a necessity to great minds, [76], 27;
a new, not the thing wanted, [297], 31;
and liberty in Catholic and Protestant countries, [185], 23;
and love, strength of, [253], 48;
and morality, divorce between, [427], 18;
and wise men, [11], 5;
anything but living for, [277], 17;
characteristic of, [64], 8;
Cicero's definition of, [216], 30;
contrasted with beliefs, [85], 38;
contrasted with morality, [467], 13;
contrasted with superstition, [407], 6, 7, [12], 13;
dead letter of, fate of, [422], 44;
defined, [537], 5;
definition and power of, [452], 45;
dependence of, on prayer, [306], 43;
display of, [547], 21;
disputing about and practising, [423], 45;
done for money, Ruskin on, [540], 40;
essential to education, [77], 4;
effect of, [489], 8;
effect of first sense of, [2], 56;
effect of too deep study of, [497], 36;
errors in, [464], 43;
errors in, sanction of, [189], 34;
essence of all, [425], 34;
every established, once a heresy, [90], 43;
fancy in, [101], 51;
felt as a slavery, [12], 47;
first object, whole object, [151], 44;
first element in, [379], 8;
flower of, when perfect, [447], 24;
Frederick the Great on, [174], 48;
from habit, [398], 37;
fruit of age, [536], 16;
gentilising power of, [566], 28;
heartfelt, the source of all, [392], 31;
how to persuade men to, [553], 33;
in relation to art, [18], 50;
inconsistency of our zeal for, [197], 10;
indispensable to society, [307], 14;
living, root of, [252], 6;
made secondary, [541], 7;
matter of feeling, [121], 43;
Monday, [282], 27;
mongers, and their dupes, [284], 36;
much, no goodness, [285], 24;
much profession in, [189], 32;
murdered by bigotry, [30], 18;
national, now no test of a people, [306], 36;
no living, till dead own itself dead, [106], 54;
no teaching, without having, [305], 43;
no, without humanity, [142], 44;
not credited, excesses for, [496], 43;
not professed, [538], 25;
of all sensible people, [168], 27;
of one age in the next, [451], 10;
of present time, [114], 22;
only guide of life, [549], 42;
only one true, [476], 19;
origin of, in society, [340], 20;
our abuse of, [339], 13;
our, and treasure to be one, [508], 4;
our, Emerson on, [339], 12;
power of, [174], 44;
rooted in fear, [188], 17;
soul of, [100], 18;
sum of, [493], 15;
sympathy with Nature, [408], 43;
talk against, suspicious, [547], 28;
temple-step of, [456], 5;
the all in, [189], 33;
the only foundation of, [189], 36;
the performance of duty, [375], 29;
though undefined, no chimæra, [138], 34;
to be one's own, [240], 37, 38;
too hard, [497], 30;
true, [500], 31-33;
true, object of, [445], 21;
upon mere authority, [493], 14;
vestibule of, [283], 17;
vital, first condition of, [481], 44;
with suffering, no wonder, [203], 28;
without morality, [305], 11; [522], 39;
without personal immortality, [559], 21
Religions, all once true, [451], 12;
Goethe's three, [468], 28;
of world, [451], 11;
only two possible, [466], 27;
the essence of all true, [375], 28;
the genesis of, [372], 34;
transient, but not religious sense, [333], 42
Religious, a, not less a man, [7], 26;
enthusiasm, hollowness of, [215], 26;
men at their beads, [543], 39;
passion, the, and art, [451], 13;
principles, Hume on, [96], 1;
revival, the ground on which to hope for, [422], 44
Religiousness, true, condition of, [357], 12
Relish in one's self, [310], 1
Remedies, extreme, for extreme evils, [98], 9;
imaginary, for imaginary diseases, [269], 30;
our, in ourselves, [339], 13;
sayings about, [470], 23;
slower than diseases, [410], 51
Remedy, of remedies, [514], 14;
where sure, [504], 30;
worse than disease, [5], 2
Remembrance our inalienable paradise, [64], 13
Reminding may cause forgetting, [273], 9
Remorse, as punishment, [473], 21;
not imaginary, [10], 13
Removals, quick, [365], 8
Renounce, who needs not, [161], 19
Rent, to pay, plough or not, [17], 50
Renunciation, a life-long demand, [483], 41;
effect of, [237], 40;
essential to happiness, [217], 6;
importance of, [205], 30
Repentance, a deathbed, [4], 6; [55], 37;
a vain, [142], 52;
act of, the virtue in, [414], 7;
daughter of the skies, [44], 43;
man not satisfied with, [550], 43;
man's virtue, [66], 40;
our glory, [338], 8;
pain of, [446], 37;
true, [500], 34, 35;
with amendment rare, [117], 28
Repetition, the effect of,

[171], 47
Reports, evil, belief in, [307], 1
Repose, a well-earned, [399], 15;
agitating effect of our love of, [197], 9;
not finding, complaint of, [274], 46;
of mind, a specific for, [229], 17;
shameful, evil of, [344], 31;
the beginning of, [425], 10;
through equipoise, [103], 46
Reproach, only defence against, [472], 23
Reproaches, best revenge of, [567], 43
Reproof, effect of, that hits a sore place, [398], 41;
how to administer, [374], 3;
of kings, [107], 26
Republic, contrasted with monarchy, [282], 25;
necessity for, [515], 10;
the want of a, [109], 13;
Ruskin's definition of, [17], 49
Republics, how ruined, [239], 24
Reputation, a, dies at every word, [21], 40;
a great, Napoleon on, [7], 4;
a high, responsibility of, [434], 31;
a sinking, sign of, [199], 16;
blaze of, [418], 35;
different from esteem, [87], 6;
life on, prospective, [161], 44;
like a man's shadow, [227], 28;
loss of, [101], 7, 8; [305], 2;
man's esteem for, [266], 12;
of others, as a support, [280], 30;
sayings about, [451], 14-16;
spotless, its value, [450], 18;
the bubble, [211], 30
Resentment, Burns on, [340], 17;
concealed, [196], 40;
not to stain innocence, [402], 10;
of a poor man, [451], 17;
to be restrained, [243], 43
Resentments, quick, [365], 9
Reserve, commended, [205], 39;
effect of, on character, [443], 38
Resetter as bad as thief, [24], 9
Resignation, difficult, [161], 29;
under unjust suffering, [237], 33
Resistance, spirit of, innate, [470], 30
Resisted, what it is to be, [333], 12
Resolution, acting with, [362], 10;
bad, effect of, [201], 10;
dauntless spirit of, [28], 35;
ebbing, [109], 28;
fate of authors of, [483], 10;
help in need, [97], 39;
native hue of, [485], 46;
one's, to be kept secret, [297], 5;
power of, [15], 34; [237], 21;
road to, [452], 3;
steadfast, effect of, [92], 3
Resolutions, first, most honest, [107], 1;
good, [356], 3;
hasty, [141], 10;
our, frail, [337], 15;
sudden, [406], 3
Resolve, built on reason, [330], 45;
the feeble, despicable, [166], 36
Respect, at a distance, [260], 6;
for others, condition of, [474], 11;
lost only with loss of self-respect, [305], 38;
the alone worthy of, [142], 4;
to all and sundry, a risk, [549], 7
Respectability, how earned, [274], 19
Responsibility, for acts, [34], 29;
not affected by ignorance, [448], 2
Respectable people, world-made, [292], 9
Rest, a man's, [278], 26; a, that remaineth, [477], 27;
after all difficulty, [504], 16;
and unrest, [378], 23;
condition of, [378], 33;
effect of, [368], 17, 18;
how found in this world, [325], 8;
how to find, [567], 41;
in grave, [182], 29;
our, not to be the rest of stones, [243], 28;
peculiar to the spirit, [246], 44;
perfect, not to be found, [155], 18;
the secret of, [242], 33;
the only, worth anything, [307], 2;
too much, effect of, [497], 44, 45
Restlessness, as a motive, [399], 1;
man's, accounted for, [536], 21;
no wisdom where, [473], 32
Restraint, a necessity, [212], 7;
by arbitrary power, [207], 28;
versus liberty, [202], 26
Results, contrasted with details, [547], 40;
great, of slow achievement, [135], 1
Resurrection, the, promise of, [338], 30
Reticence, value of, [145], 37
Retirement, good for the soul, [59], 27;
love of, an extra sense, [153], 3
Retribution, divine, [125], 23, 30
Retrogression, no, [116], 2
Retrospect, pleasing, [27], 9
Revelation, and religion, [372], 1;
and sense to see it, [463], 22;
defined, [434], 38;
independent of our seeking, [481], 18;
mistake about, [275], 13;
of God, the only, [428], 46;
only steady guide, [34], 50;
the only, [85], 32;
the sole medium of divine grace, [538], 11
Revelations, two, necessary to society, [396], 13
Revenge, and pleasure, their ears, [349], 31;
best, [252], 7; [492], 30;
most heroic, [307], 3;
sense of, [512], 8;
sign of weak mind, [280], 4;
study of, folly, [148], 32;
taking and passing over, [190], 7;
to the rude man, [22], 19
Reverence, a central law, [215], 48;
a supernatural sense, [262], 12;
and fear contrasted, [492], 21;
and love, objects respectively of, [110], 21;
as an element in thought, [484], 6;
compared with fear, [291], 43;
due to gods, [58], 41;
not innate, and its importance, [334], 21;
the first object, [21], 29;
to herald knowledge, [260], 28;
value of, [189], 37;
with knowledge, [241], 24
Reverie, losing one's self in, [494], 12;
under reflection, [371], 4
Revolt, the promoters of, [335], 13
Revolution, and its martyrs, [549], 38;
by whose fault it arises, [7], 5;
dangerous classes in a, [344], 51;
French, meaning of, [429], 25;
French, described, [122], 4;
modern, merely dissolution, [281], 31
Revolutions, aim of all, [440], 26;
cause of, [451], 22;
fear herald of, [103], 39;
great, as movements, [135], 2;
great, cause of, [431], 13
Rewarding, rule in, [203], 32
Rhetoric, for, he could not ope, [111], 1;
god of, ceased from, [546], 36;
spiritual, the law of, [241], 16;
two rules of, [459], 24;
use of rules of, [109], 6
Rhyme, excellence in, a defect often in, [411], 32;
the powerful, enduring power of, [312], 43;
rudder of verses, [111], 2;
without purpose or thought, [235], 43
Rhythm, enchanting power of, [38], 13
Rich, art of getting, [530], 27;
business of, [119], 11;
dependence of, [431], 10;
ghost of the, and his wealth, [299], 39;
hastening to be, [147], 55;
how to become, [136], 43; [171], 26;
making, or poor, [477], 4;
man, a, [211], 19;
man, a, that is great, [414], 6;
man, according to Emerson, [143], 53, 54;
man, ready made, [208], 47;
man, the only, [144], 52;
man who is, [304], 12;
man's happiness, [528], 12;
men, weary of themselves, [237], 24;
mistake to seem, [265], 15;
none, by himself, [306], 12;
none so, as he should be, [304], 49;
not to be flattered, [107], 19;
partnership of poor with, risky, [99], 1;
secrets of, can't be kept, [320], 11;
that shall come to want, [148], 7;
the, benefactors to, [513], 27;
the, discontent of, [110], 35;
the right to be, [308], 24;
the, sayings about, [70], 1-3; [451], 24-32;
the truly, [19], 21;
what it is to be, [490], 37;
what makes us, [191], 42;
who would grow, [41], 29
Richard's himself again, [154], 46
Richelieu, Corneille, on, [360], 43;
on his deathbed, [211], 1
Riches, a bar to felicity, [161], 30;
a burden unloaded by death, [175], 4;
a test of a man, [14], 46;
accessible to man of common sense, [440], 25;
acquisition of, no end to misery, [286], 14;
affected despite of, [269], 43;
all, from heaven, [219], 51;
as a good, [18], 17;
as excluding from heaven, [204], 22;
baggage, [165], 21;
best effect of, [237], 24;
cause of ennui, [173], 40;
chains, [307], 52;
dependent on poverty, [171], 43;
fascination of, [74], 13;
fatal to happiness, [160], 48;
first approach to, [428], 4;
great, only by taxing labour of others, [303], 9;
great, sole use of, [325], 2;
great, source of all, [405], 27;
grow in hell, [242], 7;
how dispensed, [338], 29;
how to acquire, [243], 10;
how to increase, [140], 3;
incentives to evil, [77], 36;
Jean Paul's contempt for, [169], 24;
mistakes about, [128], 27;
motive in coveting, [97], 47;
never enough increased, [183], 53;
no guarantee for digestion, [174], 30;
passion for, restlessness of, [257], 43;
power of, [70], 14; [530], 20;
profession without possession of, [449], 33;
real, [17], 4; [358], 4;
the greatest, [474], 14;
true, how procured, [359], 4;
unenjoyed, [175], 28;
we can and cannot carry, [281], 21;
who delights in accumulating, [151], 2;
who has enough, [20], 24
Richest, man, the, [143], 45; [406], 35
Rider, a good, on good horse, [6], 53
Ridicule, if instructive, bearable, [166], 27;
settling power of, [376], 43;
that benefits, [29], 45;
the test of, [369], 38;
unbearable, [331], 43
Ridiculous, appreciation of, test of a man, [34], 8;
being, hard to avoid, [202], 45;
easy to recognise, [496], 34;
from affectation, [330], 7;
how we become most, [521], 38;
sense of, dependent on intellect, [61], 30;
sense of, test of character, [276], 31;
side, our, [522], 10;
step from, to sublime, [334], 12
Right, and might identical, [279], 12; [184], 30;
and wrong, Goethe's test of, [306], 16;
as founded on possession, [27], 22;
assertion of, [211], 12;
at whatever cost, [71], 51;
before might, [370], 23;
champions for, [92], 32;
consciousness of, [150], 22;
divine, divine might, [70], 10;
following, as right, [386], 13;
Hobbes on, [215], 18;
how to assume one's, [368], 23;
keep to the, [548], 30;
knowledge of, enough, [171], 20;
man, the, [59], 47;
of man, first, [490], 19;
of man, most indisputable, [324], 30;
of slow attainment, [567], 15;
power of, [12], 1;
sometimes in abeyance, [71], 52;
sure to win, [111], 3;
that is born with us, [517], 23;
the, and no fear, [170], 12;
the one thing to be done, [485], 43;
the, to be anxious about, [455], 23;
to look into blots of, [167], 13;
way, how never to miss, [58], 46;
with the strongest, [233], 26
Right-about-face, a brave word, [32], 54
Right-doing, the key to, [177], 11
Righteous man, mercy of, [18], 1
Righteousness, effect of, [424], 39;
fruit of, [429], 32;
overmuch condemned, [28], 15
Righting, of things in time, [480], 48;
one's self without right, [315], 22
Rights, how forfeited, [96], 44;
of men not worth discussing, [451], 44;
permanence of, [85], 26;
transmitted, [231], 43
Rigour often less effective than lenity, [237], 35
Ring gone, but not finger, [166], 48
Rings, uses of, [61], 20
Ripe moment, the, to be seized, [4], 1
Ripeness, all, [275], 37
Rising, in the world, rapid, how to esteem, [276], 39;
sun, homage paid to, [272], 19
Risk, the charm of, [94], 36;
to be run to save all, [9], 4
Rivalry, effect of, on talent, [194], 8;
foiled, effect of, [542], 21
River, a, a guide, [513], 45;
brink of that mighty, [103], 45;
every, leads to the sea, [108], 14
River-courses, the great, [431], 33
Rivers, roads, [239], 25
Road, a long, [48], 22;
any, a world-highway, [16], 18;
common, safe, [217], 28;
good, and wise traveller, different, [6], 54;
how to make long, short, [474], 16;
every, leads to an inn, [108], 15;
right in the end, [212], 14;
the, who knows, [42], 24
Robb'd, yet not robb'd, [147], 17
Robert of Doncaster's epitaph, [535], 31
Rocks, lessons they teach, [523], 35
Rod, the, sparing, [148], 24
Rogue, a, defined, [18], 20;
resemblance of, to honest man, [377], 5
Rogues, not always punished, [85], 35;
not to be pitied, [177], 6
Roman citizen, Cicero on punishing, [198], 31
Romance, age of, transition into that of science, [431], 5;
ages of, [300], 40;
everywhere, [90], 55; [191], 1;
the only, for grown-up persons, [446], 5
Romances compared with history, [255], 10
Romans, Emerson on, [335], 8
Romantic, the, contrasted with the classical, [43], 49;
the, defined, [452], 7
Rome, Augustus Cæsar's boast in regard to, [509], 23;
better first elsewhere than second in, [166], 22
Rooks, how to get rid of, [68], 31
Room, ample, and verge enough, [122], 51;
the, required, [368], 38
Root, condition of taking, [488], 13
Rose, brief life of, [505], 42;
scent of, enough, [61], 21
Rosebuds, gather, while ye may, [118], 56
Roses, contrasted, [33], 5;
who would gather, [152], 53
Roughness, effect of, [387], 54
Rousseau, Joubert on pathos of, [178], 53
Rousseau's last words, [210], 37
Routine, cramping to life, [437], 39;
fatal effect of, [423], 43
Roving, profitlessness of, [218], 30
Rude, breast, not without inspiration, [22], 32;
man, the, characteristic of, [452], 12
Rudder, or rock, [152], 43; [460], 33
Ruin, going to, [128], 26;
how the gods bring about, [363], 4;
how we come to, [346], 21;
of everything, source of, [206], 44;
of men, [276], 36;
source of our, [522], 15;
sources of, [568], 36;
the broad road to, [69], 29;
the road to, [452], 4;
what underlies all, [506], 22
Ruins, grey, beams of day on, [111], 16;
no cause to mourn over, [311], 44
Rule, how to, [364], 11;
the desire to, [51], 34;
the sovereign, [297], 48;
what can and cannot, [301], 35
Ruler, a, friendless, [320], 21;
a good, test of, [305], 50;
as such, [17], 35;
duty of, [390], 19;
positive and negative qualifications of, [153], 1;
qualification of, [148], 14;
quality in a, [324], 10;
test of a, [181], 37;
to regard his people's voice, [389], 35
Rulers, limit of their authority, [239], 1;
many, not good, [337], 2
Ruling, art of, [431], 11;
men, and amusing them different, [8], 8;
passion, power of, [452], 14;
safe, the condition of, [303], 28;
the art of arts, [218], 20
Rumour, growth of, [101], 5;
often converse of truth, [233], 9;
spread of, [281], 14
Running, the, not enough, [39], 10;
vain, if on wrong road, [519], 26
Ruskin on his teachings,

[559], 11
Rust, foul cankering, [113], 56
Rutland, Countess of, epitaph of, [506], 30
S
Sabbath, Christ's saying on, [452], 16;
ordainer of, pity in, [151], 51;
profaned, no gain, [316], 52
Sack, bad, [37], 5;
empty, [79], 23
Sackcloth, what underlies, [506], 25
Sacrament, received, a benefit, [152], 8
Sacrifice, a duty, [185], 38;
a sick man's, [19], 24;
a sorrowful, [440], 7;
as duty and necessity, effect of, [395], 23;
in the eyes of God, [491], 42;
necessary to realisation of idea, [302], 34;
of less for greater, [332], 61
Sacrifices, in little things, hard, [522], 43;
our, passive, [339], 14
Sad, man, not friend, [260], 30;
the, disliked by gay, [324], 5;
when has cause, [165], 22
Saddest thing, the, [443], 46
Sadness, a mark of goodness, [475], 20;
deep, [514], 34;
enjoyment in, [471], 23;
soul's poison, [118], 17
Safety, the only, [397], 5;
the parent of, [37], 15
Sagacious man contrasted with a wise, [566], 36
Sage, a, defined, [18], 54;
a true, a world-pupil, [143], 11;
how regarded, [233], 7;
test of a, [478], 51;
why esteemed by world, [210], 45
Sages, ancient, aim of, [208], 27
Sailing without wind, [209], 2
Sailor, a disgrace to, [35], 10;
first, daring of, [182], 14;
heart of, [34], 17
Saint, peasant, toiling for bread and light, [405], 19;
run mad, [111], 36;
seeming, not to be trusted, [501], 18
Sainthood, questionable, [476], 31
Saints, a communion of, for all who have faith, [483], 27;
a living communion of, [470], 4;
God's triumph over, [385], 14;
living and dead, different treatment of, [461], 24
Salvation, a dubious, offering, [73], 31;
according to Plato, [216], 22;
all alone, misery, [200], 16;
by human means, [430], 23;
first step in, [194], 27;
no, in the course of justice, [484], 17;
only road to, [444], 40;
things that tend to our, [457], 26
Samaritan, the good, doing, [564], 32
Same, the, everywhere, [39], 9
Samson's riddle, [340], 13
Sanctity, the root of, [452], 9
Sanctuary, shall we raze, [141], 49
Sand, no grain of, unpeopled, [302], 12
Sanity, a test of, [191], 36;
how preserved, [314], 20;
perfect, exceptional, [304], 11
Saracens, Emerson on, [335], 8
Sarcasm, the sting in, [416], 19
"Sartor Resartus," two main ideas of, [263], 15
Satan, finds mischief, [192], 36
Satiety, as reformer, [294], 16;
fulness of, a curse, [397], 43
Satire, and poverty, [354], 25;
general and personal, [187], 1;
hard to suppress, [67], 29;
truthful, effect of, [20], 12
Satires and lampoons, written with wit and spirit, [229], 23
Satirical vein, danger of, [146], 42
Satisfaction, effect of, [93], 57
Satisfied, and dissatisfied, different conduct of, [482], 51;
well, [144], 1
Sauce, the best, [336], 1
Savage, civilised, worst, [59], 46;
noble, [164], 35
Saved once, saved for ever, [79], 25
Saving, a great art, [400], 37;
a man against his will, [196], 27;
having, [114], 5;
necessity of, as well as gaining, [363], 35
Saviour, a, vocation of, [58], 2
"Savoir-vivre," the first condition of, [374], 45
Say, having one's, [168], 46
Saying, and doing, [70], 43; [379], 38;
and doing, difference between, [29], 59;
before singing, [236], 5;
from, to doing, a long stride, [52], 36;
insincere, [503], 19;
well and doing well, different effects of, [30], 7
Sayings, wise, [557], 42-44
Scaffold, not the disgrace, [39], 4
Scandal, and a lie, [8], 15;
and tea, [253], 49;
and the great, [109], 45
circulation of, [101], 6;
lust of, [470], 6;
waits on state, [135], 33
Scandals, dead, use of, [55], 30;
fly, [329], 31
Scapegoat always needed, [3], 62
Scattering and increasing, [477], 5
Scenes, new, power of, [297], 32;
prying behind, [152], 55
Scepticism, the misery of, [262], 48
Sceptre, snatched from tyrants, [84], 36;
weight of, when known, [144], 46
Schemes, sinister, how defeated, [316], 32;
our, not favoured by Zeus, [10], 11;
the best laid, [417], 44
Schiller, and Goethe, compared, [532], 22;
and his ideal, [481], 28;
Goethe of, [379], 11;
on his education, [492], 14
Schiller's, ideal, premature, [54], 9;
scorn for worldly possessions, [63], 41
Schisms in Church, root of, [452], 8
Scholar, a good and ripe, [116], 9;
great, common defect of, [7], 6;
self-denial required in, [19], 6;
the affair of, [346], 8;
the ink of, its merits, [436], 39;
the true, procedure of, [459], 8;
without good-breeding, [452], 27
Scholars, greatest, [432], 37;
greatest, not wisest men, [258], 50;
seldom great men, [465], 24;
unregarded, [176], 4
School, true preparatory, [319], 24
Schoolboy, the desire of, [452], 28
Schooling, good, missed, [150], 44;
our, a preparation for slavery, [320], 37
Schoolmasters, express and unexpress, [426], 24;
our, [526], 25
Science, a true man of, defined, [143], 40;
advance in, due to individuals, [184], 42;
an exchange of ignorances, [220], 44
and Christianity, [420], 19;
and the theologians, [97], 59;
and thought, law of, [484], 38;
as truth, [500], 29;
at bottom, [313], 4;
children not to be taught, [527], 34;
compared with conscience, [46], 40;
condition of any, [526], 35;
contrasted with religion, [372], 30
defined, [383], 3;
dictionary and grammar of, [236], 28;
falsely so called, [532], 38;
its value to the race, [521], 5;
men of, controversy unworthy of, [276], 8
modern, Ruskin on, [281], 32;
no, patriotic, [473], 44;
not in bulk, [162], 24;
physical, a lesson of, [348], 19;
pride of, an evil, [275], 41;
prosecuted for its own sake, [81], 40;
the faculty of, [426], 46;
the fathers of, [247], 34;
the home-making power of, [535], 36;
the new in, [189], 43;
the want in, [399], 18;
two things to consider in, [189], 44;
without poetry, [559], 42;
work of, [464], 2
Sciences, advantages of study in, [157], 22;
functions of the several, [131], 48;
history of, a fugue, [64], 23
Scipio, Africanus, saying of, [319], 1
Scoffer, fate of, at the resurrection, Mahomet on, [331], 10
Scolding, folly of continual, [225], 4;
vanity of, [304], 50
Scorning, futility of, [145], 43
Scotch, drink, Burns on, [108], 30;
drink, Burns on the power of, [237], 8;
the, temper of, [346], 11
Scotchman, the, Goldsmith on, [558], 23
Scoundrel, no, without his apology, [218], 17
Scoundrelism, course of, [421], 44
Scoundrels, guiding, by love, [492], 51;
just hatred of, backbone of religion, [215], 37
Scribbling, incessant, evil of, [192], 53
Scripture, demand for, [22], 36;
how to interpret, [93], 60;
no jesting with, [296], 46
Scruples, to be guarded against, [241], 38
Scylla shunned, [485], 49
Sea, sayings about, [452], 30-35;
secret of, how to learn, [563], 31;
the, a harper, [564], 26;
treacherous, [23], 19
Searchable and unsearchable, wise treatment of, [54], 26
Searching commended, [22], 11
Season, things in, [162], 1
Secrecy, and vice, [548], 26;
once whispered, [168], 12;
recommended by Burns, [25], 32;
recommending, [370], 31;
to be kept, [141], 48
Secret, a, hard to keep, [485], 22;
a, imparted, [17], 13;
between two or three, [360], 10;
blame of disclosing, [498], 43;
how to keep a, [177], 13;
how to lose command of, [150], 25
keeping and disclosing, [199], 18;
kept and revealed, [19], 5;
knowing and revealing, [207], 30;
of a friend, his, not mine, [536], 30;
power of a, [486], 8;
the great, [550], 5;
trusting, to a servant, [152], 35;
weight of a, [377], 3;
who would wish to keep, [553], 32;
woman cannot keep, [25], 7
Secrets, all, to be laid open, [315], 40;
keeping of, [11], 53;
revealing, [496], 4;
why coveted, [311], 13
Sectarian bigotry, Ruskin on, [514], 31
Sectary, the, mistake of, [191], 38
Sects, founders of, [307], 32;
the, and reason, [93], 61
Security, insecure, [144], 45;
often near ruin, [325], 33
Seducer, no, happy, [295], 12
See, they that won't, [148], 20;
to, but not be seen through, our wish, [525], 19
Seed, and flower, relation of, [428], 49;
and tree, interval between, [469], 35;
sown by God, [379], 1, 2
Seed-corn not to be ground, [107], 48
Seed-field, man's, [288], 6
Seeing, an object, necessity of, [508], 5;
and looking, different, [2], 38;
before overseeing, [242], 56;
believing, [41], 12;
culminating in dimness of vision, [395], 22;
followed by contemplation, [20], 37;
for one's self, a great moment, [15], 3;
in part, [539], 46;
musically, [384], 29;
rarer than thinking, [164], 13;
thing beautifully done, pleasure of, [471], 26;
through, but not being seen through, [329], 15;
through, preventing seeing, [274], 37;
truly, condition of, [176], 2
Seeking, compared with finding, [125], 18;
or not and finding, or not, [152], 10
Seemly, the, permitted, [84], 38
Seen, compared with heard, [480], 47
Seer, a, beguiling, [218], 19;
and seen, alike punished, [127], 55
Seers and thinkers compared, [453], 7
Selection, natural, defined, [290], 15;
saved, trouble saved, [85], 12;
the art of, importance to author, [151], 6
Self, admiration of, [127], 19;
admirer or lover of only, [334], 31;
alone interesting, [313], 38;
an eternal entity, [483], 29;
as a mirror of truth, [10], 2;
as one's enemy, [79], 16;
concentration on, fruits of, [10], 40;
conquest of, [146], 48;
estimation of, [79], 14;
evaluation of, to be rigorous, [79], 14;
harmony with, [543], 7;
how best to shun, [167], 38;
how to know, [465], 15; [556], 34;
how to live to, [483], 40;
how to regard, [323], 34; [523], 16;
ignorance of, [175], 5;
instance of love of, [88], 33;
left to, good at times, [205], 38;
Luther's fear of, [164], 45;
man's, his worst blind, [324], 19;
oneness with, oneness with God, [532], 27;
one's, as a miracle and monster, [167], 2;
one's truest and deepest, [519], 32;
our estimate of, [93], 26;
pious and just honouring of, [447], 42;
respect only for, [201], 12;
saying good or bad of, [381], 24;
thinking modestly of, [150], 11;
to be overcome, [324], 14;
trust of, and distrust of, [105], 36;
unbelief in, [427], 30;
undervaluing, and others, [148], 40;
where to be sought and found, [384], 46;
worship of, dreary, [86], 7;
dead, a stepping-stone, [167], 19
Self-abasement, effect of, [83], 11
Self-assertion and self-denial, [340], 37
Self-censure, a fishing for praise, [9], 17
Self-commendation, a legitimate, [471], 14
Self-conceit, a source of darkness, [445], 35;
cause of ruin, [163], 12;
how to lessen, [176], 14;
not to be obtrusive, [301], 34;
the first sin, [428], 36
Self-concentration, man's, his fatalest disease, [423], 42
Self-confidence, its attestation, [522], 38;
the power of, [395], 38
Self-confident, the, to beware, [241], 8
Self-conquest, victory, [227], 11
Self-control, man without, [551], 33
Self-culture and study of history, [304], 31
Self-deception, [523], 23;
the greatest, [305], 1
Self-denial, greatness of, [133], 39;
how judge a life of, [303], 41;
importance of teaching, [465], 30;
Scott on the power of, [411], 13;
superseded, [544], 31;
the benefit of, [362], 23;
the gain of, [385], 9;
want of, [518], 32
Self-dependence, [8], 40;
happiness of, [161], 24
Self-endeavour, the key to success, [34], 11
Self-esteem, due, a necessity, [171], 16, 21;
grounded on just and right, [325], 40
Self-forgetfulness, the best, [418], 1
Self-help, alone owned by nature, [292], 25;
as an acquisition, [190], 23;
Heaven's help, [7], 32
Self-helping man, welcome, [531], 21
Self-knowledge, a necessity, [312], 6;
a, not bad, [304], 21;
an effect of, [418], 19;
difficult, [178], 51;
how attained, [161], 6; [334], 55;
index of, [382], 23;
limited, [525], 11;
never perfect, [306], 3;
rare, [517], 5;
source of, [276], 16;
sum of wisdom, [117], 31;
Thales on, [443], 40;
the condition of, [296], 8;
value of, [151], 25; [218], 26
Self-love, a balloon, [222], 18;
and debt, [224], 13;
blinding, [78], 29;
excess of, [552], 11;
function of, [504], 2;
greatest flatterer, [222], 17;
offended, [222], 19;
to be cut out, [52], 17
Self-lovers, the nature of, [206], 31
Self-made men, our, [339], 15
Self-maintenance, no hardship, [494], 17
Self-neglecting, a sin, [386], 7
Self-praise offensive, [231], 24
Self-reformation, a contribution to national, [152], 9;
a labour, [419], 38
Self-regard a right, [470], 10
Self-reliance, after failure, [346], 44;
the virtue in, [417], 1
Self-respect, effect of, on morals, [493], 1;
importance of, [24], 10
Self-restraint, necessity of, [305], 5;
the virtue of, [266], 24
Self-reverence, [2], 2;
as a virtue, [451], 21
Self-satisfied man, the, [505], 27
Self-subdual as a conflict, [301], 24
Self-sufficiency, law of, [443], 8
Self-taught, a merely, man, [532], 35
Self-trust, its comprehensiveness, [189], 47;
the value of, [506], 14
Self-will to be subdued, [142], 4
Selfish, like sympathetic, [408], 36;
no happiness to, [162], 43
Selfishness always a failure, [90], 47
Selling, the rule in, [176], 13
Semblance versus substance, regard for, [150], 14
Sense, as deceptive,

[473], 5;
and dreams, [337], 41;
and thought, their partitions, [373], 9;
better than loquacity, [261], 23;
common, contrasted with fine, [106], 30;
compared with learning, [236], 28;
good, relation between, and good taste, [83], 51;
higher, ennobling power of, [131], 3;
in confronting evil, [86], 4;
men of, and wit, [467], 5;
native, to be respected, [509], 29;
objects of, not there, [539], 5;
strength, [146], 53;
true, its power, [500], 36;
want of, [3], 20;
want of, and crime, [173], 39
Senses, and faith, [99], 56;
avenues to enjoyment, [313], 2;
delusion of, how to annihilate, [186], 45;
man owes to experience, [37], 6;
not deceptive, [453], 13;
origin of, [102], 2;
our, and impressions, [339], 16;
our, planets, [262], 46;
their truthfulness, [66], 16
Sensibilities, our, to be cherished, [204], 14
Sensibility, effect of, on circumstances, [46], 14;
excessive, [386], 51;
quick, mark of intelligence, [365], 11;
that is true taste, [278], 24;
too much, [497], 46;
without humour, [425], 41
Sensible, man, a merely, his value, [7], 44;
man, a, when deceived, [232], 52;
man, most, [551], 42;
the, no novelty, [532], 24
Sensual indulgence, effects of, [156], 45
Sensualist, body of a, [418], 46
Sensuality, always a failure, [90], 47;
an offence to reason, [151], 1;
debasing, [16], 16;
life of, how atoned for, [79], 39;
most potent antidote to, [473], 29;
the evil of, [399], 39
Sentence, good, the first quoter of, [297], 43;
understanding versus dissecting, [423], 47;
what gives force to, [207], 38
Sentences, our, characterised, [337], 19;
pregnant, [468], 10
Sentiment, in women and men, [476], 30;
no expression of, we don't feel, [330], 29;
the sail, [264], 23;
versus action, [91], 52
Sentimental, doomed, [453], 14
Sentimentalism, a watery, [490], 4
Sentimentalist, barren, [416], 47;
the, assiduous, tiresome, [334], 24
Sentiments, social, rule for, [244], 13
Separation, rule of, [520], 11
Sequence, essential to value, [94], 23
Serenity, a gift of time, [487], 22;
attainment of, [154], 34;
feigning, [453], 16;
peculiar to man, [416], 9
Serfdom in England at present, [472], 4
Serious, difficult to master, [496], 34
Seriousness, the root of, [340], 15
Sermon, criticism of a, [477], 38;
qualities required in, [242], 53
Sermons, flowers in, [107], 54; in stones, [408], 20
Serpent, shedding its skin, [550], 20;
wisdom of, whence? 455, 4
Serpent's brood, no covenant with, [218], 6
Servant, a, by nature, advantage of, [198], 32;
a wise, the loss of, [439], 46;
bad, worst part of, [458], 8;
being without a, [491], 1;
how to secure faithful, [177], 35;
negligent, how made, [2], 35;
never, never master, [150], 43;
qualification for, [175], 3;
the duty of, in misfortune, [188], 12
Servants, a necessity, [172], 27;
ambition of, [116], 20;
evil of many, [66], 49;
greatest, in a house, [270], 51;
how to regard our, [527], 38;
many, little service, [42], 39
no, without real masters, [559], 45;
of the great, airs of, [136], 49;
that wait on man, [283], 35;
the most abject, [70], 16
Serve, what will, fit, [538], 12
Served, how to be well, [177], 30, 35, 36;
the best, [37], 51
Service, a, that is no slavery, [100], 34;
care or coldness in, [189], 49;
from below upwards, a necessity, [495], 37;
greater than the god, [488], 19;
measure of, [171], 49;
of self, best, [330], 4;
our domestic, [337], 39;
our highest, a watchword, [435], 5;
pride of, a merit, [150], 43;
proffered, [278], 33;
reciprocal, [1], 14;
remuneration for, [532], 1
small, true, [394], 32;
the curse of, [488], 48;
the law of, [184], 41;
value of faithful, [313], 11;
who can do no, as a friend, [532], 14;
with noble ease, [153], 18
Serving others, two ways of, [284], 31
Servitude, a noble, [263], 34
Set, one's own, mistake about, [149], 16
Settlements, all, temporary, [472], 31
Seventeenth century, how far of worth, [453], 17
Severity, compared with love and justice, [285], 13;
our, thought of, at death, [543], 18
Sex, either, imperfect, [80], 8;
virtue of, [460], 43
Shackles, the, not therefore a slave, [539], 11
Shade, we shall fight in, [397], 12
Shadow, a, no measuring, [551], 8;
and the sun, [93], 62;
catch not at, [36], 52;
gazing on one's, [269], 28;
dependent on light, [548], 37;
on dial, [453], 49;
failing to grasp a, [195], 9
Shadows, clutched at for substances, [162], 44;
kissing, [399], 6;
Nature's, [292], 41
Shakespeare, a wonder to nature, [292], 7;
and wayside incidents, [436], 16;
art of, [534], 10;
Ben Jonson on, [149], 25;
characteristic of, [419], 44;
death of, without sign, [415], 37;
harmony of, [454], 29;
how made great, [489], 1;
M. Arnold on, [484], 1;
magic of, [33], 23;
Milton on, [55], 35; [538], 14;
rank among poets, [503], 48;
the player, [465], 14
Shakespeare's, critics, Carlyle on, [300], 26;
knowledge, [394], 28;
wit, [311], 54
"Shall," same as "can," 35, 1
"Shalt," legibility of, [483], 45
"Shalt, thou," as a command, how softened, [421], 10
Shame, a barrier, [140], 24;
false, [100], 46;
soil of virtue, [197], 20;
the moral virtue of, [289], 24
Sharpness, a matter of degree, [330], 40
Shekinah, the true, [459], 9
Shell, delight in the, [186], 31;
lure to kernel, [333], 18
Shelter, the only storm-proof, at present, [66], 28;
though given, to be wrought for, [125], 40;
under an old hedge, [209], 1
Shepherd, a good, duty of, [31], 31
Shepherds, contrasted with kings, [123], 43
Sheridan, a witticism of, [451], 38;
to a creditor, [566], 19
Sheridan's self-confidence, [167], 32
Shiftlessness, poverty of, [474], 51
Shine, how one may fail to, [566], 32
Ship, the best captain of a, [551], 39;
with most sail, [453], 23
Shoe, benefit of wearing, [197], 11
Shoes, old, till new ones, [71], 48
Shooting, often, effect of, [325], 31
Shop, opening and keeping open, [201], 29
Short-cuts, circuitous, [45], 40
Shortcomings to be overlooked, [320], 7
Shot, a good, [144], 33
"Should" and "would" contrasted, [414], 28
Showy, the, and the true, [453], 29
Shrew, how to chastise, [145], 48
Shrewdness, power of, [328], 7
Shyness, meaning of so-called, [536], 47
Sibyl, impersonation of the prophetic in nature, [291], 26
Sick with too much, [109], 18
Sickness, amendment after, rare, [105], 19;
mental, how relieved, [65], 15;
poor-spirited, [428], 43
Sighing, plague of, [16], 38;
vanity of, [72], 31
Sighs, the Bridge of, [300], 28
Sight, effect on, of bodily anguish, [558], 24;
great, first impression of, [315], 21;
partial, better than none, [26], 9;
people vainest of their, [202], 52;
point of, not within, [427], 37;
requisites of, [300], 27;
the sense of, [2], 54
Significant, and insignificant, diverse estimate of, [55], 5
Silence, a, commended, [547], 14;
a necessity, [477], 6;
a preacher, [468], 31;
a Pythagorean, benefit of, [345], 21;
a temple, [457], 5;
a test of sagacity, [20], 26, 30;
a, to be imitated, [243], 27;
to maintain, ability, will, and obligation, [382], 21;
and speech, prompters of, [205], 23;
better than irrelevancy, [29], 40;
better than discourse, [129], 4;
better than propagating error, [170], 8;
confession, [42], 31;
compared with speech, [401], 2; [402], 2;
contrasted with unrestrained talk, [488], 4;
essential for peace, [23], 6;
expressive, [74], 19;
great empire of, fascination of, [253], 13;
in these days preferable to speech, [256], 28;
incapacity for, a misfortune, [39], 17;
its significance, as induced, [490], 2;
misconstrued, [350], 1;
never recorded, [180], 45;
of fools and wise, [235], 12;
often safe course, [235], 14;
or saying better, [28], 24;
power of, [382], 20;
reaping, [152], 20;
rebuke for, [26], 51;
safety of, [19], 27;
sometimes offensive, [526], 10;
tact required for, [378], 45;
the significance of, [144], 8, 13, 14;
the wish of the strong, [397], 27;
tree of, fruit of, [458], 27;
value of, [171], 35; [185], 14;
virtue of, [367], 40;
virtue of the foolish, [227], 35;
virtue there is in, [26], 56;
when a duty, [535], 29
Silent, men, and objects to be guarded against, [29], 64, 65;
the noble, [253], 13
Siller, want of, [3], 20
Silver, love of, [147], 54
Similes, always imperfect, [318], 32
Simple, more difficult than the complex, [201], 40;
reasonings of, [498], 48
Simpleton, a, advice of, [505], 22
Simplicity, advantage of faith in, [333], 14;
and beauty, [507], 34;
as a grace, Ben Jonson on, [123], 11;
excellence of, [185], 26;
power of, [360], 11;
rare, [5], 24;
seal of truth, [54], 29; [392], 7
Sin, a, confessed, [344], 21;
and misery, [209], 23;
and repentance, experience of, [93], 14;
sundry attitudes to, Fuller on, [146], 12;
burnt into the blood by practice, [453], 40;
each, God-annihilating, [75], 23;
essence of, [425], 33;
evil of, [272], 47;
forsaking all, [148], 39;
found out, [28], 41;
guilt of, dependent on knowledge, [326], 31;
how to avoid, [149], 32;
how to save men from,565, 41;
how to treat, [509], 37;
natural to man, [13], 9;
of hot heart and of cold, [471], 28;
source of all, [116], 14;
that hero atones for, [204], 4;
the unpardonable, [446], 18
thinking about, waste, [481], 21;
truth of, not to be known, [527], 18;
without limits, [375], 18
Sincerity, as a virtue, [100], 28;
how to constrain, [55], 33;
simple, commended, [87], 20, 21;
the happiness of, [171], 25;
without simplicity, [269], 33;
years of, [215], 35
Sing, how learn to, [252], 1;
I, because I must, [165], 42
Singer, the business of, [66], 19
Singers, business of, [489], 39;
the general fault of, [328], 37
Singing, according to gift, [93], 31;
as an accomplishment, [374], 17;
at work, Carlyle on, [123], 36;
true, worship, [500], 38
Singularity, and fashion, [102], 30;
none without, [307], 33;
sign of genius, [133], 22;
taste for, how induced, [222], 40
Sinned, more, against than sinning, [164], 29
Sinner, a worn out, most denunciatory, [25], 25;
repentance of, joy of gods over, [532], 5
Sinners, faintly condemned, [476], 3;
mercy of heaven to, but not fools, [154], 14
Sinning, and bearing with the sin different, [105], 6;
occasion for pardon, [384], 24
Sins, denied, [310], 30;
Emerson's advice in regard to, [438], 42;
the root of all, [68], 22
Situation, to every, its own pleasures, [187], 44
Sixpence, virtue in, [553], 19
Skeleton, the, our mortal companion, [525], 16
Skies, attempt to scale, vain, [322], 7
Skill, and exertion, economy of, difficult, [201], 40;
and labour, value of, [94], 35;
compared with strength, [221], 45;
mead of, [497], 19;
not an estimable quantity, [358], 10;
not visible, [516], 16;
power of, [300], 8;
the greatest, [432], 36
Skin, a living, blessedness of having, [473], 31;
a, natural to all living, [9], 54
Sky, who aims at the, [392], 51
Slackness breeds worms, [243], 18
Slain, the, thrice he slew, [399], 37
Slander, comfort under, [547], 6;
lives upon succession, [111], 6;
not to be believed, [27], 31;
provocation under, [490], 36;
to good man, [395], 30;
world's delight in, [226], 15
Slave, a, defined, [150], 39;
a freedom allowed, [62], 2;
a heaven-made, irredeemable, [553], 38;
as regards reason, [148], 53;
at heart, not free, [180], 4;
born to be, [25], 58;
fetters of, [427], 34;
if I'm designed yon lordling's, [172], 42;
none, with will free, [306], 6
Slave-driving, two kinds of, [399], 1
Slave-holding, effect of, [51], 52;
enslaving, [177], 8
Slaves, all, [522], 17;
master of, [441], 34;
men who are, [478], 52;
the greatest, [311], 14;
virtue of, [103], 43
Slavery, act of will, [114], 17;
bitter, [69], 19;
but one, [476], 23;
defined, [471], 13;
in the heart, [560], 11;
not abolishable by Parliament, [565], 28;
only deliverance from, [96], 19;
our, self-imposed, [339], 21;
spiritual, [8], 26;
the distinguishing sign of, [424], 3;
the greatest, [387], 36;
the one intolerable, [445], 38
Sleep, a gentle thing, [322], 5, 6;
a palliative, [246], 45;
and his brother Death, [163], 2;
at midday, [281], 10;
death's counterfeit, [388], 6;
gift of God to His beloved, [142], 33;
in smoky cribs, [555], 14;
inventor of, blessed, [30], 47;
no, where care, [36], 4;
of rustic men, [399], 24;
of the labouring man, [453], 43;
our, when deepest, [162], 44;
rule for, [387], 8;
Shakespeare on, [258], 28;
tired Nature's sweet restorer, [487], 34;
when I am drowsy, [165], 22
Sleepers, and awake, alike watched over, [125], 41;
the, to whom life is a dream, [531], 24
Sleeping, the, and the dead, [453], 44
Slippery places, standing on, [148], 28
Sloth, a thrall to, [147], 24;
and poverty, [103], 14;
evil of, [107], 36;
misery entailed by, [117], 22
Slothful and waster, [142], 5
Sluggard in his own conceit, [453], 48
Sluggishness and stupidity, [103], 15
Slugs, men once, [526], 13
Small, connected with great, importance of, 394 34;
people, the talk of, [65], 11;
things, man who scorns, [441], 20;

things, not to be despised, [342], 14
Smallest space, fruitful, [556], 9
Smile, a, a test of character, [399], 19;
a broad, after a frown, [19], 61, 62;
from a superior, [566], 38;
or laugh, effect of, on a man, [542], 16;
the virtue in a, [94], 56
Smiles, characters of, [466], 41
Smiling in self-mockery, [385], 33
Smith, a poor, [143], 9
Smoke, and flame, interchangeable, [203], 10;
consuming one's, a first lesson, [491], 24;
convertible power of, [307], 13;
to be emitted only as fire, [472], 48;
when to consume and when to emit, [456], 14;
where fire, [107], 18
Snail, the, in its shell, [454], 3
Sneer, malicious, [440], 17
Snob, Thackeray's definition of a, [567], 35, 37
Snow, statues of, [522], 32
Soaring, no, without wings, [180], 11
Sobriety, how secured, [81], 42;
the virtue of, [403], 33
Sociability, how produced, [344], 49;
risky, [199], 23;
source of, [483], 35
Social, evils, nature of, [215], 32;
hive, drones and busy bees of, [531], 25;
intercourse, advantage of, [527], 30;
procedure, all, dependent on finding and installing the able man, [106], 22;
ties that warp from truth, [51], 50
Socialism, alpha and omega of, [416], 2;
charges against, [468], 1;
defined, [519], 7
Sociality, the foundation of, [396], 1
Societies, insecure, [467], 28
Society, a church, in one of three predicaments, [90], 28;
advantage of, [397], 21, 22;
based on religion, [340], 20;
bases of, [427], 13;
collectively representing culture, [20], 2;
composition of, [163], 30;
condition of, [549], 35;
contingent on mutual dupery, [277], 20;
conversation in, [47], 43;
dependence of, on religion, [307], 14;
effect of, [397], 23;
family ideal of, [338], 41;
fatal, [397], 23;
fine, no help in, [488], 51;
good, advantage of, [77], 7;
great hope of, [431], 21;
how possible, [335], 1;
importance of, to a man, [205], 16;
in birth-pangs, [457], 29;
no, without flattery, [173], 35;
only one great, [476], 14;
relation of, to humanity, [121], 56;
rules of, nothing, [378], 31;
the basis of, [105], 38; [372], 15;
the best, [397], 25, 28;
the bonds of, [396], 4;
the upper and under currents of, [460], 10;
the vital element in, [451], 7;
whence its regeneration, [451], 5;
without justice, [559], 37
Socrates, and Christ, [420], 16;
and Christ, difference between, [423], 33;
equanimity of, [63], 42;
Milton of, [554], 3;
of himself, [396], 40
Soil, weed-producing, value of, [21], 4
Soldier, brave, the aim of, [24], 33;
effect of use on, [509], 36;
his ultimate and perennial office, [454], 7;
inspiring effect of courage of, [48], 66;
no, without war, [520], 32;
profession of, [107], 11;
trade of, its nature and honourableness, [454], 6;
without good-breeding, [452], 27
Soldier's, honour, [515], 37;
prize and wealth, [109], 43
Soldiers, baptized in fire, Napoleon on, [545], 16;
Napoleon on, [465], 26;
two kinds of, [468], 11
Solidarity, instance of, [453], 52;
of life, [474], 52
Solitude, at times best society, [111], 7;
defined, [558], 36;
how we endure, [523], 19;
its safety, [476], 27;
its unknown nature and extent, [251], 11;
life of, in a crowd, [201], 24;
love or dislike of, [12], 51;
necessary for all great work, [3], 35;
or solitariness not good for man, [203], 50;
or vulgarity, our choice, [465], 12;
painful, [64], 9;
perpetual effect of, [346], 34;
power of, on mind, [189], 53;
risk of, [30], 43;
the incapable of, [560], 21;
the virtue in, [531], 14;
true, Byron on, [279], 3;
unnatural, to be abandoned, [81], 24;
who prepared for, [405], 52;
why intolerable, [206], 28;
within, [420], 28
Solomon, felicities of, the record of, [447], 19
Something versus nothing, [89], 3
Son, a, how to enrich, [461], 30;
a, legacy to, [22], 17;
love for, [38], 29;
the best, [418], 2
Song, an old, [163], 6;
ascensive forces of, [99], 58;
effect of, contrasted with eloquence, [80], 50;
gift of, [125], 46;
great, sincere, [9], 41;
in own reward, [170], 10;
sacred, love of, [109], 27;
the end of everything, [498], 35;
the meaning of, [194], 14;
the power of, [20], 5; 36, [24], 25; [37], 30;
when great, [133], 40;
without ear of taste, [537], 21
Songs, our sweetest, [525], 29
Sophistry, entangling power of, [398], 24
Sophists, effect of their teaching on Church, [239], 26
Sorrow, a sign of nobleness, [450], 23;
a teacher, [150], 44;
akin to course of things, [476], 36;
and fear, associated with melancholy, [103], 31;
and joy, [213], 27, 28, [37], 41, 42, [46], 50, 51, 52;
as a teacher, [334], 47;
consecrated in Christ, [524], 42;
contrasted with happiness, [139], 42;
disappearance of, under love, [86], 34;
each present, absorbing, [75], 22;
effect of time on, [318], 36;
effect of, worse than giddiness, [231], 12;
ennobled by Christianity, [42], 53; [43], 3;
for loss of fortune, [539], 12;
give, words, [123], 26;
gnarling, mocked at, [124], 43;
how to treat, [528], 29;
involves joy, [114], 48;
knowledge, [136], 36;
over the dead, effect of, [444], 32;
path of, [447], 10;
real, hard to detect, [369], 15;
self-incurred, [153], 28;
shared, [20], 7;
sign of deep, [422], 46
sympathy of, [456], 37;
tears of, fruit of, [94], 13;
the eloquence of, [391], 38;
the first great, [472], 25;
the triumph of, [42], 53, 56;
vanity of, [531], 10;
violence of, how to tame, [511], 30;
what underlies all, [506], 22;
while there is hope, [550], 21
Sorrow's, crown of sorrow, [20], 6;
fell, tooth, [104], 27
Sorrows, a fire at which we warm our hands, [249], 37;
all, healed by heaven, [75], 48;
associated with pleasure, [409], 11;
desperate, [100], 35;
each condition its own, [82], 55;
how they come, [545], 18;
lighter than cares, [36], 9;
little and great, [251], 19;
never wanting, [212], 20;
not to be complained of, [543], 28;
of earth, in eye of heaven, [474], 5;
of yesterday, to-day, and to-morrow compared, [454], 11;
our, like thunder-clouds, [339], 18;
part of the divine plan, [89], 23;
small and great, effect of, [19], 55;
soothed by friendship, [319], 10;
source of, [11], 13;
true easing of, [503], 31;
vanished, soul-quickening, [48], 59;
we must bear, [468], 18
Soul, a fresh, breeding, [491], 10;
a great, [184], 13;
a man's, his mightiest possession, [297], 42;
a noble, to the vulgar, [421], 12;
a precious, [168], 19;
a reality, [262], 25;
a strong, mark of, [346], 30;
a strong, to be prayed for, [112], 47;
a strong, works of, [307], 16;
a sweet and virtuous, never gives, [334], 43;
a true, first trial questions of, [141], 34;
a, with unsubdued passions, [535], 22;
active, the one thing of value, [445], 40;
an enigma to itself, [361], 30;
an inmate, [551], 37;
and body mutually helpful, [9], 35;
and love, co-operating or disjoined, [253], 50;
as God, unchangeable, [75], 45;
beautiful, finding, a gain, [79], 5;
black speck in every, [469], 21;
cannot be killed, [402], 6;
independent of counsel, [62], 37;
depth of, approved, [430], 19;
depths in, [466], 36;
effect on, of chastening, [48], 5;
elevation of, [537], 14;
excellence and greatness of, in what seen, [223], 13;
fiery, effect of, on body, [5], 44;
frequent contrast of body and, [8], 41;
gives form to body, [325], 14;
immortality of, Goethe's faith in, [164], 43;
great, invulnerable but for compassion, [506], 39;
greatness of, a mark of, [81], 2;
greatness of revelations of, [26], 63;
his, entrusted to each man, [127], 52;
how it regards all it loves, [325], 6;
how rendered great, [162], 9;
human, a bird born in a cage, [436], 4;
immortality of, proof of, [494], 26;
in sick body, [533], 21;
indispensable, [179], 23;
individual, union it should seek, [436], 30;
indolence of, evil of, [107], 30;
its greatness, [482], 25;
its integrity, sacred, [314], 37;
its palace, [6], 63;
its spiritual position, [95], 13;
largest, of a country, [438], 1;
life of, [75], 26; [487], 3;
like a star apart, [486], 9;
man's, an unspeakable subject, [162], 14;
man's, like water, [385], 11;
man's mightiest possession, [324], 37;
mystery in connection with, [263], 20;
no kindling of, without soul, [162], 26;
noble and ignoble, in prosperity contrasted, [171], 32;
noble, fairest fortune to, [61], 5;
of man, presence-chamber of Highest, [202], 40;
one's anxiety about, [13], 46;
one's own, [94], 12;
our, our own, [94], 12;
poorest, wishes of, [448], 30;
sad, in merry company, [379], 14;
salvation of, sole motive of religion, [152], 31;
sayings about, 454,14-27;
secret of, inexpressible by words, [308], 3;
sick, its physician, [65], 14;
sickness of, common cause of, [325], 30;
so situated that it may emancipate itself, [126], 8;
sanctuary of, [18], 36;
source of events, [472], 33;
strength of, true to its high trust, [133], 42;
strength without greatness of, [385], 12;
strenuous and success, [21], 2;
that strives and sins, misery of, [539], 13;
the, no coercing, [33], 36
the, everything, [352], 39;
the, great and plain, [133], 41;
the, indivisible, [413], 5;
the, mirror of, [426], 29;
the sole reality, [446], 20;
the window of, [426], 31;
the true strength of, [459], 10;
thrift of having, [2], 55;
unbelief in the richness of, [523], 13;
virtuous and sensuous, [461], 3;
want of the, [233], 8;
without fixed purpose, [222], 8;
without reflection, [20], 9;
youth of, [466], 3
Soul's, grandeur, in what revealed, [312], 32;
the, emphasis right, [540], 1
Souls, all, forfeit once, [554], 43;
at work in stinted body, [194], 13;
the, Cicero on, [284], 6;
common, contrasted with nobler, [45], 21;
dear to God, [33], 25;
feeble, how they fail, [104], 4;
fine, versus fine society, [488], 51;
generous, weakness of, [120], 6;
godlike, forbidden fleshly gratification, [128], 21;
great, characterised, [238], 23;
great, endurance of, 136,48;
great (see Great souls);
hard to discern, [391], 26;
lessons taught to, incommunicable, [484], 42;
little, shifty, [251], 36;
men's, the poles of 277, 30;
noble, do nothing by halves, [298], 17;
our chief concern, [568], 27;
our, far-seeing, [339], 19;
privileged, Frederick the Great on, [237], 45;
pure, crushed to death, [468], 19;
related, division among, a sad riddle, [414], 8;
sad, Dante's, [222], 22;
small, authors of great evils, [276], 19;
strong, related, [10], 25;
to be saved, and souls not, [154], 15;
to whom God manifests Himself, [127], 20;
twin, [467], 39;
yearning, appeal to, [518], 14
Sovereigns, a weakness of, [407], 48
Sovereignty and learning, [236], 35
Sowing, and reaping, [8], 32;
compared with reaping, [379], 19;
necessary to reaping, [149], 5
Space, and time, a dream, [402], 3;
and time, as interests, [424], 41;
and time, but creations of God, [486], 26;
and time, do not belong to the eternal world, [293], 24
Spared, better, a better man, [165], 32
Sparing and spending, in due measure, [557], 32
Spark, neglected, [20], 10
Sparks, and the light they give, [14], 12
Sparrow, providence in fall of, [477], 47
Spartan mother to her son, [87], 35
Spartans, the, Emerson on, [335], 8
Speak, injunction to, [523], 7;
well, advantage of ability to, [198], 34;
well, how to, [565], 26
Speaker, fine, who does not speak the truth, [555], 30
Speaking, a master of, [93], 56;
a rule of, [567], 11;
condition of, [305], 23;
evil from, [116], 7;
good, condition of, [506], 4;
in childhood, [190], 17;
man, contrasted with silent, [42], 20;
men, soul of all worth in, [189], 27;
much and to the point, [205], 9;
much or seldom, significance of, [151], 17;
rule in, [381], 18;
rule of, [141], 37; [274], 45
sowing, [152], 20;
well, [362], 6;
what is implied in, [334], 40;
what is wanted in, [313], 20;
what one likes, [152], 11;
without thinking, [138], 24
Spécialité, a, desirable, [141], 32
Species, Cuvier's definition of, [20], 11
Speck, black, in every soul, [469], 21
Spectacles, behind which is no eye, [441], 3;
ugliest of, [506], 26
Speculation, among practical men, [189], 14;
contrasted with practice, [355], 2;
Goethe on the man of, [5], 34;
limit of, a wise man's, [199], 48;
no, in those eyes, [307], 18;
not man's end, [266], 18;
our proneness to, [331], 6;
tendency of, [174], 5
Speculations, effect of time on, [486], 33
Speech, a knavish, by whom entertained, [7], 47;
and fact, gulf between, [401], 1;
and silence, [370], 44, 45;
and thought, [484], 42;
as a sign, [437], 29;
combined with song, [10], 22;
compared with action, [402], 42;
contrasted with silence, [391], 28, 33;
corruption in, bad sign, [549], 17;
discretion of, [69], 10;
disguise of thought, [182], 22;
effect of, to a soul holy and true, [545], 19;
fair, [1], 9;
flattering, [273], 2;
freedom of, risky, [341], 2;
Goethe's rule in regard to, [519], 30;
good, what underlies all, [506], 23;
hour of, [253], 18;
indiscreet, [148], 25;
kind, power of, [150], 13;
like a tangled chain, [157], 12;
modern, theme of, [38], 17;
motive of most, [330], 35;
not safe, when one would be silent, [303], 29;
often matter of regret, [224], 9;
pungency of, how to attain, [177], 29;
rarer than song, [79], 2;
right naming, [313], 4;
rule of, [308], 23; [519], 14;

rule for, [244], 14; [382], 19; [481], 4;
rules for, [400], 39-45, [50], 51, 55; [401], 1;
subservient to action, [553], 36;
the best, contrasted with thought, [392], 26;
the bond of society, [317], 12;
the dial-plate of thought, [320], 33;
the greatest virtue of, [336], 9;
to be sparing, and good, [100], 29;
to be weighed, [42], 45;
to conceal thought, [226], 34;
to purpose, tact required for, [378], 45
Speeches, fine, of knaves or fools, [106], 31;
long, a bore, [92], 26
Spenser, characteristic of, [419], 44
Spending, before earning, [148], 27;
economy in, [165], 13;
more difficult than earning, [76], 45;
much, and gaining little, [495], 46;
the use of, [376], 12
Spendthrift, the, [357], 47;
with others' property, [201], 25
Sphere, chosen for one, [295], 32;
limit of one's view, [241], 26
Sphinx-riddle, of the day, to whom insoluble, [150], 14
Spinoza, Novalis on, [131], 4
Spirit, a drop of, not water, the thing wanted, [534], 14;
a man of, [511], 34;
a soaring, [2], 63;
a worthy and generous, sign of, [199], 38;
and nature, [454], 34;
and reason, two aspects of one thing, [414], 37;
architect of body, [86], 2;
confining power of, [94], 7;
constructive power of, [94], 6;
debauchery of, [85], 30;
defined, [54], 16;
hard to keep, pure, [395], 35;
he that ruleth his, [147], 19;
how to warm one's, [519], 2;
in which we act, highest matter, [59], 57;
indigenous, [60], 2;
instance of elevation of, [54], 11;
listening to voices of the, [144], 42;
men of, characteristic of, [319], 17;
oppressed by matter, [58], 19;
power of, over nature, [290], 27; [291], 47;
presence of, as remedy, [514], 14;
small, impotent against a greater, [307], 12;
sovereign in moral world, [246], 1;
swifter than body, [3], 11;
task of, [454], 39;
the alone born of, [303], 7;
the genuine, characterised, [59], 49;
the interpreter of action, [3], 47;
the mysterious ways of, [454], 31;
the only possession of, [303], 7;
the organ of revelation, [538], 11;
the, sayings about, 454 31-35;
the striving, drawn to truth, [197], 1;
the sword of, [404], 10;
the, within, [533], 22;
the work of, idle questioning about, [508], 33;
to be under rule, [15], 31;
versus flesh, [454], 34;
versus letter, [438], 44;
we love, ever mysteriously with us, [539], 1;
who hath no rule over his, [146], 51;
wilful gloominess of, [171], 27;
without body, [474], 22;
witnessed to by nature, [290], 26
Spirits, art in binding, [218], 20;
dangerous to fraternise with, [119], 24;
evil, and the light, [311], 37;
from the vasty deep, [165], 17;
great and little, their errors, [7], 7;
great, power of, over love, [135], 10;
how tried, [98], 10;
locking out, [533], 22;
no art in freeing, [218], 20;
noble, and the dead, [308], 14;
stirring, [403], 15;
to be tried, [27], 32;
victory, source of, [23], 38
Spiritual, and sensual, mediator between, [287], 8;
chemistry, mixtures of, [442], 35;
death, in this epoch, [331], 9;
denial of, in man, [416], 47;
in man determining power, [207], 4;
leaders of the race, [533], 38;
man judge and not judged, [147], 21;
man, mysterious ways of, [454], 31;
man, the, and his world, [454], 44;
heavens, the phenomena of, how produced, [191], 18;
nature of man, one and indivisible, [267], 7;
opportunity thrown away, [176], 4;
problem resolved by Christ, [454], 45;
sovereignty of, [262], 25;
power, denial of a test, [190], 15;
the, sayings about, [454], 41-43; 456, [1], 2;
universe, in what it exists, [462], 14;
universe, the laws of, [454], 46;
virtue, perfection of, [447], 27;
word, influence of, [79], 10
Spiritually-minded, to be, [490], 39
Spirit-world, not shut, [64], 22
Splendour unseen, [145], 10
Spontaneity, destroyed by analysis, [14], 17
Sport, perfection of faculty, [438], 7;
tedious, [171], 42
Spring, days of, [568], 38;
the, when apprehensible, [455], 4
Spur, a, in head, [20], 19;
no, to prick the sides of my intent, [167], 6
St. Christopher and Christ, [205], 46
St. Francis, the order of, rules of, [497], 4
St. Martin, faith of, [506], 35
St. Paul's, its builders and architect, [403], 18;
the builder of, [534], 20
Stage, man on the, [331], 16
Stagnation, enjoyment impossible in, [565], 42
Stags with lion for leader, [112], 35
Standing, high, the risk of, [479], 48;
still, no, [116], 2
Stanzas, ill-polished, advice as to, [88], 25
Star, a, a good steed, [81], 26;
guiding, takes an astronomer to catch a, [81], 26;
one's, to be followed, [383], 44;
the greatest, [432], 38;
without haste, without rest, [556], 2
Stars, as gems on God's mantle, [200], 40;
but hid to reappear, [419], 18;
Byron's apostrophe to, [564], 22;
companions of solitude, [171], 28;
for money, [538], 36;
hid by heaven's own light, [311], 55;
hide heads diminished, [22], 20;
road to, not easy, [309], 31;
sayings about, [455], 5-7;
the, Carlyle on, [162], 41;
the eternal, there, [426], 7;
two, different spheres of, [504], 6;
way to the, [258], 35
Start, early, [75], 35
State, a, at its greatest, [20], 41;
a, the fate of, guided by unintelligence, [414], 9;
a, worth in, [465], 36;
affairs of, the question in, [53], 11;
cloth of, may be mean, [165], 27;
construction and destruction of, [21], 43;
effects of prudence and enthusiasm on, [450], 5;
element of greatness of, [449], 25;
health of a, condition of, [433], 26;
in danger, Carlyle on, [455], 8;
its relation to citizen, [455], 9;
life of a, like a stream, [54], 13;
misfortune in, [442], 34;
no, now purely self-derived, [392], 22;
quality of heart of, [223], 10;
the, false ambition in, [191], 20;
the, Louis XIV.'s definition of, [223], 9;
the, purpose of, [492], 7;
the safeguards of a, [309], 39;
what constitutes a, [534], 37
States, how lost, [330], 19;
in, unborn and accents unknown, [161], 39
Statesman, a, out of harness, [167], 40;
and politician contrasted, [455], 10;
proper study of, [20], 43;
two qualities of, [504], 3
Statesmanship, true, [500], 39
Statesmen, cobblers, [279], 46;
minds of some, [442], 27
Station, a freak of fortune, [96], 61;
high, a low-bred man in, [20], 13;
high, when appreciated, [156], 33
Stations of eminence, [81], 28, 29
Statue, a, without tongue, [246], 32;
the light on, no anxiety, [71], 36
"Steal, thou shalt not," comprehensiveness of, [331], 27
Stealing, akin to lying, [258], 17;
sayings about, [148], 29, 30; [152], 23
Steel, true as, [287], 50
Step, a false, effect of, [171], 48;
a man's greatest, in life, [60], 7;
first difficult, [38], 2;
first expensive, [180], 29;
one wrong, [334], 36;
the hardest, [432], 17
Stepping-stones, rising on, of dead selves, [167], 19
Stewards, heaven-elected, [273], 35
Still, people dangerous, [238], 21;
waters, danger of, [241], 37
Stoic, sayings about, [455], 13, 14
Stoicism, sayings about, [455], 15, 16
Stomach, a hungry, not fastidious, [212], 24
Stone, a rolling, [18], 21;
a white, [7], 67;
refused by builders, [455], 18
Stones thrown only at fruit-loaded trees, [330], 15
Stoning, different kinds of, [197], 30
Stoop to rise, [395], 37
Stores, best of, [403], 20
Stories, gulling power of, [298], 3
Storm and a master-spirit, [441], 35
Story-telling, mark of mediocrity, [224], 16;
the habit of, [199], 11;
the least supportable, [324], 22
Straightforward, hard to walk, [190], 38
Straightforwardness, effect of, [498], 16
Strain, it had a dying fall, [414], 11
Stranded, nothing ever, [314], 28
Strange better than troublesome, [29], 33
Straws, knotting, rather than nothing, [29], 30
Stream, prudence before crossing, [42], 16
Streams, shallow, run dimpling, [88], 2
Strength, admired by women, [67], 8;
assurance of, [386], 2;
cause of loss of, [56], 62;
course of, [443], 31;
innate, [10], 23;
not equal to desire, [65], 13;
not to be divided, [526], 36;
one's, ignorance of, [11], 31;
our, measure of, [200], 51;
our, secret of, [339], 24; [522], 2;
popular estimate of, [55], 1;
property in the, we have overcome, [520], 32;
superior, with right, [407], 3;
the secret of, [46], 4; [190], 39;
the determining element of, [313], 24;
varieties of, sources of, [455], 27;
without wisdom, [537], 8
Strife, anti-Christian, [242], 28;
genders strife, [250], 31;
more interest in, than victory, [184], 33;
to be left off, [417], 23
Stringed instruments, sayings about, [455], 28, 29
Striving, and forgetting, [111], 42;
eager, from ignorance, [317], 8;
praying, [28], 7
Stroke, a transmitted, still a stroke, [455], 30
Strokes, power of repeated, [155], 5
Strong, and unsound contrasted, [450], 44;
for the weak, [455], 34;
men, the faith of, [388], 25;
not independent of help, [399], 33;
the, love life, [10], 24
Stronger, contending with, [424], 41
Strongest, right with, [61], 26
Stubbornness, how to meet, [18], 52;
how to treat, [4], 65
Student, brooding, Wordsworth to, [509], 16;
diligent, solitary, [397], 24;
the life of a, [378], 42;
the one virtue of a, [68], 27
Students, ill-behaved, as preachers, [63], 49
Studies, for ornament, [496], 38;
how regarded by different classes, [49], 33;
learned, the value of, [139], 1;
what of our, we retain, [528], 10
Study, ennobling, [467], 21;
evermore overshot, [395], 26;
how to enter on a, [186], 31;
importance of, [200], 48;
much, a weariness, [327], 7;
the effect of, [394], 9;
the use of, [407], 2;
what should be our chief, [324], 31;
without genius, [78], 7
Stuff, we are made of, [522], 18
Stumbling-block, man must have a, [111], 37;
not to be laid, [384], 33
Stupid, class, the, [471], 15;
the, no novelty, [532], 24
Stupidity, and indolence, [193], 31;
and sluggishness, [103], 15;
deadening effect of, [161], 8;
dreadful, [434], 28;
invincible to the gods, [281], 1;
our one enemy, [445], 35;
penalty of, [412], 43;
with sound digestion, power of, [558], 46
Style, a fine, characteristic of, [541], 4;
a natural, our pleasure in, [362], 7;
a noble, condition of, [554], 30;
a rugged, [166], 29;
after a model, [94], 11;
copy of mind, [119], 43;
dependent on mind, [456], 1;
every man has his, [92], 4;
fastidiousness about, [543], 2;
how to write a grand, [119], 43;
how to write a lucid, [119], 43;
master of, mark of, [211], 52;
Swift's definition of, [358], 5;
the man, [235], 17;
two great faults of, [358], 15
Subject, adherence to, [217], 38;
the power of the, [33], 32;
will of, wanton restraint of, [95], 9
Subjects, difficult, novel and profound, how to treat, [528], 34
Sublime, an instance of, [72], 46;
from, to ridiculous, [74], 40;
moment in man's life, [12], 31;
nature of, [167], 29;
of man, the, [489], 7;
sayings about, [456], 4-9;
step from, to ridiculous, [334], 12;
the truly, [459], 18
Sublimest spectacle, the, in the world, [405], 19
Sublimity, contrasted with humour, [164], 7;
in child and maiden, [249], 14
Subordinates, need of, [329], 11
Subsistence, man's sure, [265], 35;
Mirabeau on three means of, [211], 6
Substance, discriminated from accident, [2], 45;
for shadow, [36], 53;
my, is not here, [305], 31;
the only real, [446], 20
Substitute in absence of the king, [21], 9
Succeeding, best way of, [565], 7
Success, a condition of, [5], 39; [209], 35;
a diagnosis required for, [495], 53;
a dream, [72], 49;
a result, [159], 33;
a secret of, [271], 57;
by failure, [99], 27;
condition of, [12], 36;
conditions of, [149], 7;
Danton on the secret of, [38], 11;
desert of, thing to aim at, [488], 27;
encouragement from, [160], 37;
ever tinged with sadness, [210], 21;
failure of, reason of, [201], 46;
first essential of, [495], 44;
first secret of, [386], 15;
great secret of, [493], 34;
honoured, [89], 10;
how missed, [456], 26;
how to attain, [177], 43;
how won, [330], 25;
in need of consolation, [89], 30;
nothing succeeds like, [316], 39;
secret of, [452], 46, 48, 49; [476], 6;
the effect of, on our judgment, [138], 32;
the greatest, [432], 39;
the parent of, [193], 36;
two ways to, [468], 3;
worldly, glare of, [469], 36;
worldly, Queen Elizabeth on, [479], 24
Successes often disappointments, [277], 23
Succour, angelic, [162], 12;
from above, when sure, [563], 24
Suddenness, the shock from, [88], 14
Suffer, to, and be strong, sublime, [219], 52
Sufferance, badge of Jew, [111], 8
Sufferer, the greatest, not always best, [298], 6
Suffering, acute, of short duration, [520], 6;
compulsory, [381], 22;
contrasted with happiness, [139], 40;
effect of, on native character, [314], 11;
general, a sign of general immorality, [119], 40;
human, cause of, [267], 31;
human, root of, [134], 39;
law of, [443], 9;
necessary to being, [489], 45;
nothing singular in, [326], 39;
often in apprehension, [350], 8;
our lot, [206], 25;
protection from, [517], 31;
remembrance of, [361], 9;
sole remedy for, [111], 9;
the effect of, [335], 9;
vicarious, [428], 24
Sufferings, another's, judging of, [202], 32;
light, test of, [244], 33;
our, tutors, [342], 52;
superiority to, [475], 2
Sufficiency, a moderate, [27], 55
Suffrage, universal, questionableness of, [507], 38
Sullenness, an attribute of things, [480], 34
Summit, of power, man at, [116], 30;
the, reached by climbing, [34], 11
Summons, the, that arouses a man, [284], 16