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

Sun, a type of Jesus, [483], 33;
and shadow it casts, [546], 6;
beautifying power of, [26], 21;
-clear, the, no arguing against, [4], 72;
down, while yet day, [155], 3;
extinction of, effect of, [415], 10;
looks on all alike, [453], 8;
never sets on my dominions, [170], 5;
not to be economically viewed, [530], 2;
on evil and good, [144], 28;
real or spiritual, condition of love for, [565], 36;
spots, vulgar judgment of, [422], 19;
splendour of brief, [89], 29;
the rising, Mirabeau to, [390], 4;
the, no liar, [397], 13;
the power of, [319], 21;
the real and the spiritual, defined, [565], 36;
the, sayings about, [456], 16-21;
there, though concealed, [89], 35;
things that love, [10], 58;
who soars too near, [552], 34
Sunbeam, incorruptible purity of, [21], 11
Sunlight, our dependence on, [204], 9
Sun-setting, a bright, [520], 19;
effect of, [396], 49
Suns that shine at night, [334], 14
Sunshine, from, to sunless land, [161], 15;
those who bring us, [483], 3
Superfluities, folly of pursuit of, [397], 44
Superfluous, necessary, [235], 18
Superior, and inferior, law of, [198], 19;
man, way of, [461], 21;
without subjection to, no rest, [125], 6
Superiority, condition of, [554], 9;
contrasted with majority, [260], 15;
manifestation of, price of, [441], 25;
the art of attaining, [233], 32;
the condition of, [147], 23
Supernatural, Horace on introduction of, into composition, [293], 33;
the, the source and goal of all things, [554], 31;
the, to a child, [315], 44;
true region of, [396], 33
Superstition, effect of, contrasted with atheism, [21], 32;
compared with fanaticism, [101], 40;
defined, [569], 41;
effect of science on, [544], 20;
Frederick the Great on Voltaire's raid against, [555], 29;
its power over us, [456], 25;
obstinacy of, [468], 7;
rather than unbelief, [166], 25;
the basis of, [53], 3;
the worst, [465], 33;
those opposed to, [479], 31;
weakness of, [11], 20;
where sure to be found, [402], 43
Supper, Holy, observance of, [435], 25
Suppliants at preferment's gate, [508], 14
Surfeit, mortality from, [286], 17;
suffering from, [19], 58;
they that, with too much, [478], 44
Surgeon, good, qualifications of, [6], 56;
young, [212], 48
Suspicion, a life of, [147], 40;
the evil of, [400], 27
Suspicious man, a, [41], 31
Swallow, the, wheeling, [553], 3
Swallow-flights, short, of song, [389], 32
Swan of Avon, sweet, [149], 25
Swearer, the cheap, [420], 3
Swedenborg, the mourner, [465], 14
Sweet, and bitter, common source of, [116], 29;
no, without sweat, [302], 23;
the fate of everything, [513], 21
Sweetness, fleeting, [88], 41;
versus asperity, [4], 55
Swift's epitaph, [504], 35
Sword, and pen compared, [27], 51;
and the right, [456], 36;
good, in poor scabbard, [130], 13;
leaden, in ivory scabbard, [7], 72;
striking with, [148], 31
Swordsman, a good, [31], 28
Sworn foe to sorrow, care, or prose, [167], 23
Sybarite, the, and his body, [315], 23
Symbol, new, a welcome gift, [473], 30;
the idea of a, [184], 23
Symbolic, everything, [10], 55
Symbols, who works merely with, defined, [152], 48
Sympathy, and pleasure, effects of, [349], 32;
flower of life, [502], 12;
in ordinary life, rare, [385], 34;
indifference to, [316], 24;
power of, [281], 9; [319], 11; [390], 40;
secret of, [253], 14;
with lowest, power of, [153], 10;
with spirit of man, significance of, [548], 46
Systems, only words, [534], 9
T
Taciturnity, commended, by Burns, [235], 42;
where to learn, [332], 45
Tact, and perseverance, value of, [346], 40;
contrasted with talent, [409], 48;
importance of, [559], 45
Taking out and never putting in, [4], 43
Tale, a round, unvarnished, [251], 28;
an oft-told, [369], 4;
he cometh with a, [142], 16;
I could a, untold, [165], 31;
plainly told, [15], 18;
spoiled in telling, [307], 23
Tale-bearer, words of, [463], 44
Talent, a, to be guarded against, [528], 31;
all, moral, [10], 27;
and character, how formed respectively, [85], 20;
and the world, [464], 24;
as determining and determined, [2], 57;
as man's enemy, [464], 47;
compared with wealth, [136], 42;
contrasted with genius, [120], 18, 50; [121], 3;
definition of, [481], 41;
eye for, what is involved in, [458], 40;
field open to, [194], 4;
for literature, a, [477], 22;
guide to vocation, [75], 14;
great, happiness of, [17], 40;
happiness of using, [441], 15;
mark of, [491], 39;
ordinary, with perseverance, power of, [558], 38;
the curse of, [206], 7;
versus genius, [54], 32;
a, which we cannot perfect, [29], 66
Talents, by nature, [239], 28;
characteristic of, [382], 14;
distinguished, not therefore discreet, [69], 44;
great, often hid, [379], 28;
great (see Great talents);
high, the pride of, [400], 33;
often without genius, [269], 11
Talisman, a, acknowledged by nature, [21], 23
Talk, filthy, [166], 33;
honourablest part of, [435], 29;
measure of, [529], 19;
the ineffectuality of, [176], 40;
unwise, harmfulness of, [509], 11
Talkers, a consideration for, [306], 24;
an evil they suffer, [428], 16;
compared with thinkers, [33], 8;
great, [39], 23; two sets of, [399], 3;
weaknesses of, [19], 13
Talking, always, effect of, [479], 19;
and acting, motives of, [529], 20;
caution in regard to, [345], 6;
good, and good work, conjointly impossible, [305], 22;
great charm of, [496], 1;
and doing nothing, [491], 19;
in morals and art, [53], 8;
long, effect of, [252], 36;
much, [148], 35, 36;
not to be monopolised, [297], 3;
passion of women, [448], 4;
the rule in, [34], 28
Tall men often empty-headed, [325], 37
Tardiness, the evil of, [401], 37
Tarpeian Rock, the, [227], 29
Task, a noble, never easy, [305], 32;
one's, how to be done, [541], 33
Taskmaster, the great, [19], 7
Taste, defined, [381], 28;
effect of delicacy of, [57], 48;
false, defined, [536], 11;
good (see Good taste);
purity of, test of, [339], 5;
sense of, its exquisiteness, [137], 32;
true, development of, [500], 40
Tastes, pleasant, [349], 26
Tattler, characterised, [21], 25
Taxation, a reason for, [295], 34;
for benefit of a class, [496], 3;
in relation to liberty, [185], 41;
of posterity, for folly, [475], 45;
on mere labour and brains, [307], 19
Taxes, self-imposed, [522], 21;
sinews of the state, [524], 25;
the heaviest, [170], 33;
to the commonwealth, [511], 50
Teach, who should, [242], 40
Teachable mind, mark of, [21], 26
Teacher, a good, test of, [305], 50;
a wise, [144], 3;
an authoritative, ever a necessity, [566], 14;
and pedant contrasted, [234], 23;
business of, [492], 50;
man's best, [414], 32;
qualification of, [77], 22; [151], 45;
the only, [454], 38;
with imperfect knowledge, [475], 34
Teachers, our real, [231], 51;
who have boobies to deal with, Burns' pity for, [126], 18
Teaching, a, before all, [519], 38;
false, Gen. Gordon on, [544], 48;
great art of, [493], 33;
no living by, [308], 20;
no, without inspiration, [162], 26;
rule in, [366], 14;
to be commensurate with intelligence in pupil, [203], 46;
to be successful, [353], 35;
when spiritually profitable, [307], 24
Tear, a, for pity, [142], 51;
law that moulds, [414], 20;
merit of drying, [424], 25;
of joy, the, [456], 44;
of tender heart, no stemming, [208], 32;
the mourning, [456], 44;
witchcraft in a, [533], 25
Tears, a debt, [406], 50;
a necessity for man, [239], 9;
causes of, [399], 4;
expression of tenderness, [282], 16;
expressiveness of, [195], 42;
joyful, oh for a bosom in which to shed, [322], 21;
lent by nature, [291], 10;
motive powers, [231], 14;
Nature's, [292], 42;
obscuring power of, [478], 18;
of penitents, [456], 45;
often a bad sign, [151], 13;
sacredness in, [470], 25;
safety-valves, [452], 22;
sometimes for show, [349], 53;
soothing power of, [87], 27;
sowing in, [479], 49;
tender, power of, [482], 41;
the cause of, [205], 18;
the channels of, [394], 38;
to be secret, [335], 24
Teeth without bread, and bread without teeth, [41], 25
Telegraph, electric, no substitute for face of a man, [425], 1
Teleology, question of, [450], 30
Telescope versus eye, [360], 36
Telescopes and eyes, [98], 21
Tell-tale, harm one, does, [332], 20;
out of school, [457], 1
Temper, an even and cheerful, benefit of, [426], 9;
and circumstance, accord between, [143], 29;
fate, [12], 59;
the, how to treat, [198], 39
Temperaments, our, diversity in, [339], 25
Temperance, a physician, [227], 37;
and health, [153], 32, 37; [260], 36;
as a virtue, [460], 42;
defined, [113], 12; [432], 27;
in cold latitudes, [435], 11;
incompatible with love of pleasure, [303], 5;
true, a part of, [199], 49
Tempers, unsociable, [508], 26
Tempest, sorest, issue of, [454], 10;
the objects it attacks, [457], 4
Temple, but one, in world, [471], 19;
no, easily reared, [565], 40;
reared on ruins of churches, [125], 19
Temptation, a, merely fled from, [527], 6;
anxiety to avoid, a snare, [269], 25;
common, [469], 17;
effect on us of resisting, [524], 9;
enduring, blessed, [30], 53;
flight from, [117], 11;
no guard against, [306], 26, 40;
object of, [106], 43;
our desire, [525], 18;
power of victory over, [565], 5;
resisted, not known, [540], 5;
resisting, serving God, [126], 33;
to sin in loving virtue, [284], 12;
virtue unequal to overcome, [162], 32;
when under, [547], 9
Temptations, and trials, our own, thought hardest, [91], 50;
beginning of all, [417], 20;
only skin deep, [268], 15;
teaching of, [525], 9
Tenants, poor, in the factor's hands, Burns on, [352], 38
Tendency, present, of things, [429], 45
Tenderness, defeating prudence, [450], 4;
thought of, at death, [543], 18;
throne of, [75], 49;
want of, [518], 34;
weakness of, [395], 21
Tennyson, rank as poet, [503], 48
Term of things, God-appointed, [480], 32
Territory, loss of, [439], 46
Terror, a life-long, horror of, [27], 46
Terrors, men amidst, [161], 8;
most, illusory, [284], 39
Testament, framed with injustice, [472], 51
Testimony, written, value of, [250], 34
Teufelsdröckh, as a rejected man, at the centre of indifference, [111], 14
Thanks, at all enough, [544], 4;
exchequer of poor, [89], 46;
fed on, [287], 42
Thanksgiving, God-glorifying, [126], 35
Theatre, and pulpit, [457], 14;
private, of great account, [262], 5
Theft, contrasted with carelessness, [36], 6;
proscribed by Christianity, [241], 7
Theme, a common, hard to treat freshly, [67], 28
Theologian, experience of, [424], 8
Theologians slain by science, [97], 59
Theological absurdities embraced by the greatest men, [307], 26
Theology, and philosophy, Carlyle on, [347], 38;
compared with religion, [372], 22;
false, the cure for, [422], 26
Theorists, crotchety, [444], 4
Theory, all, gray, [132], 42;
how to test a, [397], 38
There, never here, [457], 15
Thief, and anvil, [8], 60;
and opportunity, [77], 27;
saving a, [381], 8;
the greatest, [324], 41
Thieves, and their chains, [251], 38;
little and great, how treated, [219], 35, 36;
more, than are hanged, [52], 23
Thing, a, how defined, [21], 35;
that most needs to be done not easy, [414], 31
Things, all, co-operative, [11], 3;
all, only halves, [75], 25;
are as regarded, [233], 12;
best at their sources, [238], 8;
how to know, [377], 19;
more, in heaven and earth, [467], 23;
often misconstrued, [33], 16;
the path of, [447], 12;
to be done decently and in order, [240], 20;
with more spirit chased, [552], 23
Think, how to learn to, [200], 43
Thinker, accurate, compared with accurate observer, [110], 34;
arrival of, an epoch, [186], 32;
earnest, no plagiarist, [301], 37;
fairest fortune to a, [54], 26;
great, test of, [305], 37;
peril to things caused by advent of, [545], 35;
the, and the public, [486], 18;
the light he requires, [457], 28;
the, want of, [529], 38;
to be guarded against, [29], 73
Thinkers, and seers compared, [453], 7;
relation of, to workers, [482], 47
Thinking, a disease, [333], 31;
abortiveness of always, [42], 8;
acting, [496], 21;
and having ideas compared, [493], 9;
and living, contrasted, [40], 12;
and saying, [344], 42, 43;
any, rather than none, [266], 19;
as wishing, [320], 8;
before writing, [241], 2;
clear, and ardent loving, [230], 32;
contrasted with doing, [50], 42;
defined, [339], 26;
effect of, [475], 15;
evil of too much, [559], 7;
faculty, Goethe's thrift of, [334], 18;
free-, a vain boast, [523], 26;
how alone possible, [205], 14;
leaving off, evil of, [427], 17;
less harm from, than speech, [269], 6;
man a terror to the devil, [21], 39;
man, fairest portion of, [493], 4;
man, not appreciated, [161], 16;
no, no wisdom, [148], 4;
often no thinking, [161], 16;
power of, [485], 2;
powerful and bold, [264], 30;
rare, [164], 13;
rule of, [274], 45;
that is none, [149], 15;
the rule of, [481], 16;
the value of, [369], 6;
too much, [152], 32;
too much, effect of, [569], 8;
what is implied in, [334], 40
Thirty, without sense at, [364], 5
Thomson, Littleton on the muse of, [110], 3
Thongs, from others' leather, [32], 45
Thorn, but a changed bud, [21], 41;
near the rose, [529], 34
Thorns, when to trample on, [550], 22
Thought, a good, a boon,

[6], 56;
a good, power of, [75], 7;
a great, news of, [145], 1;
a monarch of, the thought of, [518], 47;
a noble, effect on us of, [547], 27;
a single, significance of, [20], 15;
a sudden, [21], 10;
a true, mark of, [414], 17;
accompaniments of, [559], 6;
and action, the worlds of, [465], 8;
and diction, propriety of, conjoined, [358], 15;
and its relation to world, [484], 30;
application of, merit in, [473], 14;
as expressed in action, [3], 48;
compared with speech, [401], 10, 12, [13], 16, 17;
constant, unconscious overflow of, [46], 58;
contrasted with action, [61], 25;
contrasted with will, [556], 20;
dependence of, on character, [161], 5;
every, once a poem, [94], 54;
good, dependence of, on good cheer, [126], 35;
grandeur of, [162], 11;
greatness of, [311], 51;
he, as a sage, [149], 14;
high, rhythmic, [525], 2;
how made healthy, [205], 13;
how to test, [149], 47;
intense, fatiguing, [280], 3;
its activity, [315], 10;
justice of, how attained, [216], 19;
less, more talk, [282], 11;
moment to seize a, [90], 44;
mustard-seed of, its vitality, [444], 27;
nature of, [432], 9;
no, contented, [307], 29;
no curbing, [264], 29;
norm of, [253], 18;
of ages, crystallised in a moment, [89], 38;
on the sea of passion, [508], 29;
one, inclusive of all, [334], 23;
one's own, to be entirely credited, [220], 3;
one's, to be trusted, [184], 45;
original, preciousness of an, [169], 31;
parent of deed, [457], 34;
power in, [474], 34;
power of, [94], 55; [206], 39;
prior to fact 457, 33;
profound, [443], 21;
property in, [484], 24;
pure, independent of time, [486], 46;
relation of, to action, [58], 37;
revelation of its power, [451], 20;
sin of stifling, [496], 2;
slave of life, [33], 29;
tendency of, [203], 25;
that cannot be simply expressed, [542], 29;
the aim of every, at its origin, [94], 53;
the atmosphere of, [81], 32;
the analogue of, [44], 30;
the generous, [125], 17;
the, to him who cannot think, [421], 18;
the well of, effect of drawing from, [565], 30;
the world-process, [279], 33;
true and precise, superior to cloudy fancy, [500], 37;
undying, [26], 16;
want of, effect of, [521], 15;
when beautiful or just, [307], 28;
wicked, impress of, [555], 34;
withering, hid in smiles, [117], 24
Thoughtfulness, a medium in, [477], 46
Thoughtlessness, cause of evil, [33], 5
Thoughts, appropriation and invention of, [199], 44;
audacity of human, [44], 21;
best expression of, to be respected, [467], 1;
bitter, to be suppressed, [33], 12;
dead men's, as agents, [419], 20;
divine revelations, [96], 2;
evil, our power over, [526], 16;
evil, to a good man, [173], 1;
free, but not hell-free, [119], 16;
good, how they come, [10], 48;
good, unexecuted, [130], 21;
great, from above, [306], 45;
great (see Great thoughts);
heard in heaven, [137], 8;
how to treat our, [428], 6;
in the heart of, courtesy, [156], 30;
like flowers, [207], 36;
love's heralds, [257], 6;
man's, with the stars, [263], 39;
men's (see Men's thoughts);
native soil of, [54], 36;
no rule for preserving or acquiring, [233], 35;
noble, the companionship of, [478], 47;
of little-minded people, easy to gauge, [251], 23;
of preternatural suggestion, [33], 24;
of things, influence of, [274], 11;
of unreflective minds, [508], 22;
our, and ourselves, [339], 27;
our best, [337], 16;
our fugitive, [339], 28;
our relation to our, [523], 31;
outrun us, [274], 5;
pass muster, [240], 45;
pregnant, [468], 10;
prostitution of, [182], 22;
religious, mixed with scruples, [307], 29;
roving, to be guarded, [320], 33;
sayings about, [457], 35, 39;
that look through words, [157], 13;
the only immortal, [507], 48;
thy, give no tongue, [123], 30;
unstained and evil, [508], 28
Thraldom, a, unpitied, [147], 24;
hateful, [323], 22
Thrall, in person, may be free, [457], 40
Threateners, not fighters, [73], 6;
often cowards, [268], 30
Threatening, loud, [482], 42
Threats, hardening effect of, [496], 28;
naught, [150], 19
Threshold, expectant, [90], 5
Thrift, and magnificence, [359], 12;
as a revenue, [259], 37;
secret of, [218], 25
Thriving, distrust of, [191], 45
Throne, a, raised to, and being born to, [203], 6;
by what established, [457], 41;
something behind, [476], 35
Thunder, nothing but, [48], 39
Thunderbolts on innocent, [214], 48
Thyrsus, the, bearers of, [417], 4
Tibullus, Ovid on remains of, [209], 51
Tide, but no gulf-stream, in affairs, [500], 47;
in the affairs of men, [470], 35;
the, to be seized, [527], 11
Time, a new, birth of, in pain, [182], 33;
a proper, for everything, [104], 48;
a test and a revealer, [337], 4;
a waste of, [520], 23;
advices in regard to, [409], 34, 35;
ameliorating effect of, [285], 38;
an innovator, [271], 24;
and eternity, [88], 4;
and I against any two, [165], 8;
and our complaint of its shortness, [520], 34;
and the hour, [44], 52;
as a cure, [81], 1;
as counsellor, [472], 9;
as preacher, [59], 43;
beyond our power, [340], 23;
connection of, with eternity, [150], 41;
dependence of things on, [481], 20;
different relationships of men to the, [431], 24;
driving away, [479], 40;
earth-spirit at loom of, [395], 20;
effect of, on a man, [240], 13;
economised, too late, [269], 35;
enough, if well applied, [331], 35;
eternity made manifest, [265], 2;
expenditure of, [97], 25;
fleetness and tyranny of, [78], 20;
flight of, irreparable, [117], 13;
God's, and ours, [62], 48;
how it is annihilated, [542], 30;
how to baffle, [401], 48;
how to beguile, [491], 7;
how to count, [528], 25;
how to win, [260], 38;
how we get rid of, [407], 34;
ill employed, lost, [330], 36;
in relation to eternity, [482], 6;
in relation to life, [339], 40;
its evanescence, compensated, [522], 6;
its stealthy flow, [228], 22;
its unnoticed lapse, [453], 49;
killing, a labour, [466], 6;
lenient hand of, [437], 36;
man the child of, [265], 2;
man's-angel, [62], 15;
man's inheritance and seed-field, [288], 6;
mystery of, Carlyle on, [413], 13;
no, for saying all things, [87], 31;
of day, known only to wise, [108], 46;
one's distribution of, [63], 20; [387], 51; [388], 1; [393], 15;
one's own, benefiting, [150], 31;
our complaint and conduct in regard to, [521], 7;
our, fixed, [339], 29;
passing of, common to all, [395], 31;
rightly seized, [63], 20;
sayings about, [235], 19-21; [412], 9-17; [486], 24-53; [487], 1-25;
silence of, [317], 3;
take good note of, [300], 23;
that bears no fruit, [457], 46;
the accepted, [27], 14;
the flight of, [412], 5;
the havoc of, our exclusive contemplation of, [338], 38;
the magic of, [569], 21;
the, our treatment of, [528], 1;
the present, Emerson on, [482], 13;
the present, sayings about, [449], 13, 14;
the reality of, [205], 27;
the sun-steeds of, [456], 22;
the thought of, [481], 15;
the, to be studied, [174], 35;
the weird images of, [316], 53;
the, who wants the spirit of, [364], 2;
things done in, [192], 1-3;
to be economised, [81], 45;
to be honoured in passing, [392], 23;
to be occupied, [510], 32;
to be seized, [176], 49;
to be taken by the forelock, [158], 20;
to be valued, [85], 41;
two different attitudes to, [336], 21;
value of, [72], 5;
waste of, [432], 10;
wasted on others, [4], 2;
wasted, [269], 30;
wasted and wasting, [169], 4;
well or ill used, [483], 13, 14;
well used, [332], 40;
whiled away, a burden, [544], 42;
who have no, [345], 19;
wishing for too much, [176], 13.
See Il Tempo.
Times, as representing the eternities, [457], 47;
bad, but compensations, [67], 20;
now babbly, now dumb, [58], 42;
past, a seven-sealed book, [67], 19;
spirit of the, [67], 19;
spirit of the, defined, [535], 49;
the, a fatal trait of, [427], 18;
the, a tendency of, [429], 45;
the, always mean and hard, [35], 2;
the, and our duty to them, [567], 29;
the background of, dark, [322], 30;
the, unjust complaint of, [275], 42;
the, insoluble by us, [521], 30;
these naughty, [322], 18
Time-shadows, only, perishable, [219], 54
Timid, man, in love, [202], 55
Timing of things, [458], 1
Tiresome, secret of being, [452], 43
Tit for tat, [1], 45
Title-page, as index of book, [265], 38
Titles, and men, [204], 36;
high, effect on weak minds, [238], 28;
noble, alone transferable, [484], 10
Titus, saying of, [65], 39
Toady, a, defined by Disraeli, [408], 28
To-day, and to-morrow, [155], 42, 43; 283, [45], 46;
Carlyle on, [395], 3;
happiness of owning, [140], 26;
sayings about, [491], 27-30;
value of, [107], 12;
value of insight into, [123], 14;
why we lose, [529], 32;
worth of, compared with to-morrow, [334], 26
Toe, light fantastic, [44], 38
Toil, a necessity, [526], 26;
effect of change of, [482], 8;
effect of, on native character, [314], 11;
sons of, Carlyle's apostrophe to, [323], 2;
vain, without heaven's grace, [323], 5
Toiler, only, to have, [169], 10
Toleration, our, [529], 25;
rule and limit in, [395], 9
Tomb, before death, or none, [171], 13
To-morrow, gone and coming, [340], 2;
not to be cared for, [409], 24;
pupil of to-day, [68], 52
Tongue, a killing and a quiet sword, [142], 41;
and its issues, [520], 25;
an evil persuasive, [33], 2;
as a traveller's outfit, [41], 28; [42], 5;
compared with fire and sword, [106], 38;
cowards with the, [45], 14;
evil, an evil mind, [250], 14;
evil, bite of, [307], 22;
evil, its owner, [188], 26;
holiday to, [123], 39;
instrument of good and evil, [153], 41;
readiness with the, [510], 25;
restraining, as a virtue, [250], 18;
sayings about, [258], 5-11;
to be confined, [46], 25;
power of, [55], 36; [191], 33; [174], 36;
venom of, [474], 43;
want of eloquent, a misfortune, [39], 17;
worst part of bad servant, [250], 15
Tongues, compared to clocks that run on striking, [398], 9;
evil, pain of, [482], 23;
in trees, [408], 20
Too much, a defect, [516], 35
Tools, a necessity for all, [294], 49;
all man's invention, [262], 22;
and the man, our modern epic, [449], 40;
to him that can handle them, [224], 26;
use of, confined to man, [262], 47
Top, attempt to reach, at a leap, [200], 42
Topic, lovingly and thoroughly treated, effect on us of, [542], 17
Torrents, strong, their charge, [455], 36
Touch, a sure, a rare gift, [380], 17
Towers, lofty, and their fall, [37], 49
Town and country, [127], 17
Towns, contrasted with rural retreats, [228], 17;
great, a sort of prison, [135], 22;
immorality of, [239], 36
Trade, a, an estate, [146], 43;
a useful, value of, [23], 44;
as a means of life, [275], 3;
no, without its enjoyments, [504], 44;
two of a, [186], 22
Trader, what he first barters, [428], 5
Tradition, magnifying power of, [534], 1;
only one thing better than, [476], 18;
the god of, broken, [546], 36;
the source of all, [476], 18
Tragedies, why compose, [535], 1
Tragedy, true end of, [458], 38
Tragic and comic side by side, [421], 9
Train, the lackeyed, for others' pleasure, [110], 37
Training, mere, versus spirit, [169], 44;
superior to teaching, [411], 15;
the best, [77], 20;
time for, [513], 46
Traitor, the greatest, [474], 36
Traitor's, a, weapons, [334], 35
Traitors, no legislation for, [473], 13
Traits, family, how deepened and intensified, [314], 11
Tranquillity, condition of, [282], 53;
divine, [322], 20;
incompatible with idleness, [67], 34;
virtue in, [187], 56
Transcendental, the, in a book, [315], 30
Transcendentalism, Carlyle on, [201], 30
Transition, every, a crisis, [94], 58
Transitory, the, but an allegory, [8], 63;
study of, as such, [168], 16
Translation, need not be verbal, [294], 2
Translators, traitors, [498], 49
Trappist, and his body, [315], 23
Traveller, a wise, and his country, [505], 41;
who is a philosopher, [441], 17;
who is only a vagabond, [441], 17;
wise, and a good road, [6], 54;
with an empty purse, [510], 45;
without observation, [458], 19
Travellers, licence to, [21], 60;
unregarded, [176], 4
Travelling, alone or with another, [150], 26;
railway, Ruskin on, [367], 44;
safe and not unpleasant, [149], 17;
that profits not, [152], 34;
use of, [460], 14;
without effect on nature, [171], 44
Treachery, deliberate, penalty of, [57], 44;
due to weakness, [274], 17;
evil in, [204], 23;
the price of, [400], 29;
what is dreadful in, [192], 13
Treasure, a, hard to guard, [179], 6;
coveted, hard to guard, [259], 30
Treasures, accumulated, purpose of, [123], 45;
by a lying tongue, [430], 3;
heavy with tears, [399], 8
Treatment according to desert, [509], 33
Tree, bearing bad fruit, [95], 2;
with both fruit and shade, [458], 28;
without blossoms, [507], 50
Trees, ability to root up, [334], 32;
harm of transplanting, [32], 5;
large, give more shade than fruit, [124], 11;
old, hard to bend, [213], 14;
short of the sky, [36], 3
Trencherman, a very valiant, [143], 12
Trial, a, that is not dangerous, [307], 30;
the glorifying effect of, [319], 25
Trials, past, not to discourage, [242], 21
Trifles, as felt, or not felt, [12], 23;
different estimates of, [150], 17;
holy and a base care for, [469], 24;
how to treat, [527], 4;
making an amusement of, [480], 12;
not to be despised, [481], 6;

significance of, [202], 42;
significance of treatment of, [201], 32;
well habited, [468], 17
Trinity, the, according to Emerson, [459], 38
Triumph, after victory, [16], 10;
without glory, [529], 28
Triumphs and sorrows, our, [529], 21
Tropes, everywhere, [291], 27
Trouble, best remedy for, [15], 32;
eased by talking of it, [86], 40;
past, memory of, [405], 1
Troubles, being chased by, [565], 23;
cure for, [393], 41;
due to God dragging us, [269], 29;
effect of slight and great, [239], 16;
how to face, [497], 54;
light and deep, contrasted, [51], 36;
little, worry of, [162], 13;
no guard against, [306], 26;
none without, [304], 26;
of others easily borne, [524], 24;
one's, how to soften, [459], 16;
one's, how to treat, [167], 51;
one's own, heaviest, [2], 58;
that must not be told, [467], 38
Troy, no more, [117], 16, 18;
site of, [210], 14
True, and false, price of, when paid, [111], 24;
and good, how reconciled, [518], 17;
being, always possible, [474], 35;
not always verisimilar, [235], 31, 32;
once, true always, [331], 30;
the, alone beautiful, [376], 50;
the, as a spirit in the atmosphere, [203], 33;
the, harder to find than false, [510], 35;
what is considered, same as true, [536], 13;
what is not, advantage of, [536], 42
Trust, and distrust an error, [183], 16;
and distrust, foresight necessary for, [112], 18;
and distrust, Goethe on, [11], 40;
and love, soul's nourishment, [253], 51;
and trust not, [105], 37;
effect of, [483], 21;
experience before, [26], 64;
founded on love, [27], 24;
objects to, [329], 40;
power of, [502], 44
Trusting every one, [149], 33
Truth, a distasteful, profitable, [368], 49;
a genuine follower of, [553], 21;
a new, receiving, [370], 19;
a new, the effect on us, [21], 47;
a, pushing, too far, [360], 18;
a test of, [90], 12; [487], 14;
abstract, importance of, [119], 38;
an insult to many, [466], 43;
an offence, [180], 27;
and error, [85], 2, 3, [5], 8, 9;
and goodness, how to travel the path of, [563], 34;
and its expression, [331], 49;
and purity, [360], 12;
and reality, the tap-root of life, [244], 3;
and the imitation of it, [188], 36;
and the utterance of, a necessity for man, [9], 67;
arguing deceitfully for, [148], 34;
at any cost, [29], 43;
at heart, effect of, on character, [542], 7;
awful, of things, [47], 50;
beauty of, [315], 42;
being alone with, [207], 21;
beholding, after being lost in metaphysics, [201], 3;
belief of, [436], 41;
best way to, [418], 8;
better than consistency, [345], 17;
better than wit, [537], 35;
by count of noses, [398], 27;
by doubting, [73], 30;
by poetry, [565], 19;
characteristic of, [531], 13;
commended, [243], 46;
consolation from, [421], 30;
dearer than a friend, [13], 39;
discernment of, [553], 8;
discernment of, a revelation, [546], 35;
devotion to, effect of, [563], 23;
duty towards, done when told, [543], 42;
duty with regard to, [67], 4;
easy, [164], 26; effect of mere, [23], 42;
enough, if in the air, [488], 23;
every, not to be told, [325], 46;
power of fear of, over men, [535], 14;
firmness for, [153], 20;
first condition of accepting, [428], 40;
general, seldom applied, [119], 41;
good and harm of telling, [67], 6;
great, against whom barred, [302], 17;
harsh, [169], 8;
he that is of, [93], 34;
how regarded, [223], 21;
how to draw out, [379], 36;
how to know a, thoroughly, [491], 6;
how to understand, thoroughly, [304], 47;
impotent without enthusiasm, [83], 39;
in dreams, [322], 26;
in fashion of the day, [22], 7;
in head and in hand, [18], 57;
in light, [191], 3;
in possession of a child, [41], 37;
indifference to, in trifles, [167], 10;
injured by defence of it, [329], 37;
inquiry of, [436], 41;
irritating, [58], 11;
its defender, [199], 35;
its power and strangeness, [476], 3;
knowledge of, [436], 41;
language of, [437], 49;
lost in disputation, [300], 18;
love of, importance of, [536], 18;
love of, test of, [256], 10;
maintaining and being maintained by, [202], 17;
man cold to, [92], 30;
man's relation to, [521], 23;
might of, [133], 43; [259], 10;
more than oratory, [271], 49;
mother of, [391], 41;
naked, an offence, [289], 20;
need not be all told, [390], 15;
new, damaged by old error, [79], 3;
new, seeks circulation, [173], 26;
new, the challenge of, [92], 52;
no, not error to some, [180], 22;
not all to be told, [567], 19;
not consistency, [71], 38;
not easy to bury, [208], 20;
not relished by man, [262], 13;
not to be all disclosed, [167], 52;
not to be served out pure, [322], 25;
not to be thwarted, [522], 36;
objective value of, [174], 37;
of the essence of man, [262], 6;
often in jest, [268], 32;
only to be spoken, [400], 39;
open to sight, [525], 10;
opposed by the age, [199], 35;
orbs of, steadfast, [484], 29;
our concern not consequences, [566], 12;
our love of, evidence of, [338], 32;
permanency of, [457], 25;
persecution of, J. S. Mill on, [423], 33;
plain, sublimity of, [333], 30;
power of, [514], 24;
precious and divine, [111], 32;
products of, that cannot be weighed, [508], 19;
pure, adulteration of, [360], 9;
qualities of, [315], 48;
quickened by God into deeds, [125], 17;
rejected, a sword, [22], 8;
reserved, [10], 61;
reveals itself like God, [55], 3;
risk of speaking, [148], 26; [323], 32;
sacrificed for shadows, [38], 23;
satisfying recompense of, [240], 26;
sayings about, [228], 2-5; [512], 53-57; [513], 1-6; [518], 18-20;
scientific, of old date, [383], 6;
search for, secondary to duty, [304], 38;
seal of, [54], 29;
seeking or not seeking, a sign, [549], 34;
self-defensive power of, [321], 19;
simplicity, a test of, [316], 9;
stings, [181], 9;
strong, almost as God, [552], 6;
subtlety of, [225], 40;
that has to be reserved, [419], 26;
the knowing and not speaking, [532], 13;
the life of the, [404], 10;
the only asbestos, [335], 23;
the, sayings about, [459], 20-22;
the, two ways of telling, [570], 7;
the urgency of, [536], 42;
the vouchers for the, [400], 50;
the, will out, [548], 51;
thirst for, abiding, [457], 31;
those who follow, [480], 23;
Time's daughter, [63], 23;
to be bought, but not sold, [33], 42;
to be made attractive, [524], 11;
to be veiled, [289], 20;
to die for, [491], 34;
to whom to confess, [3], 22;
unpalatable, [107], 23;
vanishing, [67], 5;
versus charity, [205], 34;
violation of, social effect of, [95], 8;
vital, by our very side, [33], 31;
what it demands of us, [324], 46;
when seen, loved, [111], 31;
uncertain who has found, [92], 23;
why derided, [274], 49;
with friend to be both loved, [175], 24;
worth of, [538], 22.
See Falsehood and Justice.
Truth-doer, and the light, [146], 6
Truthfulness, the importance of, [199], 36
Truth-seeker, a, a citizen of the world, [152], 14
Truths, blunt, effect of, [488], 26;
like fruits, [239], 30;
often employed to deceive, [325], 39;
new, only old with a new name, [269], 31;
select, [181], 20;
shielded by veils, [468], 33;
spiritual or vital, nature of, [516], 27;
the greatest, [432], 40
Tub, every, on its own bottom, [95], 4;
to a whale, [383], 47
Tumult, seasons of, evil in, [192], 16
Tumults, civic, to be shunned, [546], 10;
of mind, not easily allayed, [309], 26
Turner on his death-bed, [456], 19
Twa lovely een, Burns on seductiveness of, [166], 12
Twigs, young, [213], 14
Twilight, disastrous, [186], 8;
lot of man, [52], 40;
natural, safety of, [479], 51;
world's light, [202], 47
Two, souls in one breast, [570], 5;
things, to require, [495], 20
Type, less valuable than time, [487], 1;
Nature's carefulness of, [394], 47
Tyranny, and law, [548], 8;
intolerable, [468], 29;
limited, [306], 27;
law and justice under disguise of, [180], 26; worst sort of, [25], 42
Tyrant, always in fear, [152], 24;
and serf, not God-made, [168], 5;
his fear, [364], 49;
kiss of, admonitory, [207], 12
Tyrants, plea of, [558], 37;
Burns against, [232], 26;
not for ever, [103], 45;
who wear no crown, [388], 37
U
Ugliness, the root of, [369], 16
Ulysses, bow of, bending, [203], 45
Unanimity in a council, [259], 14
Unascertainable, the, how to regard, [492], 4
Unbaptized, the, with clean hearts, [506], 35
Unbelief, Carlyle on, [471], 20;
contrasted with belief, [27], 30;
effect of, [415], 14;
foundation of, [27], 16;
founded on blind belief, [559], 4;
in man, [84], 47;
our age of, not without hope, [173], 34;
prevalent among men of ability, [293], 27;
the battle against, [417], 2;
the fearful, [427], 30;
the, that torments us, [339], 30
Unborn, rather be, than untaught, [29], 17;
the, blessed, [550], 39
Uncertain, the, how to treat, [192], 49, 50
Uncle Toby, ways of Sterne's, [121], 39
Unconquerable man, an, [153], 5
Unconscious, the, region of, [304], 33;
the, value of, [459], 32
Unconsciousness, commended by Christ, [242], 24;
sign of health, [453], 32
Unction, flattering, [110], 15
Understanding, and expression, [87], 29;
and reason, objects of, [67], 2;
and wit, [558], 1;
candle of, in heart, [168], 32;
compared with fantasy, [459], 33;
contrasted with reason, [369], 28, 33;
defined, [513], 14;
dulness of, how to treat, [349], 5;
end of, [433], 29;
error essential to, [176], 39;
evil of abuse of, [167], 27;
forgiving, [45], 52;
fortitude of, [499], 50;
healthy, defined, [433], 29;
high source of, [436], 44;
its rank, [435], 4;
judgments of, Goethe on, [437], 23;
man's best candle, [266], 27;
no, without love, [522], 47;
of people better than censure, [29], 53;
one thing well, [496], 32;
perfect, value of, [432], 39;
power of, [485], 40;
sound, the dread of, [434], 28;
source of, [206], 21;
the condition of hearing, [11], 62;
the condition of, [12], 38;
the modern god, [431], 5;
the, pursuing its rightful course, [486], 48;
things, condition of, [496], 35;
two conditions of, [496], 14;
value of, [153], 11; [162], 4;
way for, [100], 22;
without, without purpose, [79], 28
Undertaking too much, [66], 24
Undertakings, great, distrusted, [410], 47;
great, the requisite to, [385], 38
Undiscovered, the, country, [553], 4
Uneasiness, the cause of our, [201], 36
Unemployed, the, a burden, [82], 56
Unexpected, the, happens, [195], 2
Unfortunate, blessing an evil to, [496], 26;
man, an, according to Goethe, [143], 20;
the, unwise, [253], 9
Ungrateful, man, an, [194], 21;
men, different kinds of, [143], 57;
service to, [194], 16;
to do good to, [491], 40
Unhappiness, cause of, [521], 22;
cause of all our, [498], 37;
imaginary, [521], 43;
man's, cause of, [267], 9;
source of, [303], 11;
the one, for a man, [445], 41;
the true, [175], 18
Unhappy, the, [447], 17;
the, a comfort of, [326], 33;
the, always wrong, [459], 36;
the, and their time, [433], 14;
the, cared for by God, [125], 51;
the, on earth, [466], 37
Unhelpful, the, [305], 7
Unimaginative, the, defects of, [459], 37
Uninquisitiveness, man's, [359], 14
Unintelligible, how to interpret, [384], 37
Union, power of, [11], 50; [15], 39; [89], 41;
motive for, and the power of it, [559], 44;
strength, [224], 17
Unity, in a work, test of, [542], 36;
not uniformity, [103], 46
Universe, a, in each man, [559], 19;
a man's, how determined, [407], 47;
a thought of God, [54], 34;
and particles that compose it, [475], 4;
as seen from England, contrasted from that as seen from Judea, [539], 4;
divine-infernal, [316], 21;
each man to adjust himself in, [202], 4;
ever in transformation, [249], 32;
great soul of, [431], 37;
how bound together, [21], 5;
laws of, mistake regarding, [355], 1;
nature of, [467], 30;
the, no wronging, [311], 35;
the, sayings about, [459], 38-46; 460, [1], 2;
the, out at sea, [340], 5;
those who love the whole, [480], 6;
to him who thinks he can swallow it all, [533], 43;
under government, [92], 49;
versus the spirit of God, [462], 15
University, the true modern, [459], 13;
years, importance of, [2], 32
Unjust, in little, [147], 8;
thing, doomed, [316], 46
Unkindness, not of nature, [292], 16;
pining effect of, [283], 25;
small, [19], 56
Unlearn, who needs not, [161], 19
Unlearned man, the, ignorance of, [460], 3
Unlearning, a slow business, [56], 48;
not right, [141], 24
Unlooked-for, the, [509], 7
Unnatural, imperfect, [94], 51
Unnecessary, the, dear, [81], 6
Unprosperous, the, suspicious, [328], 2
Unpunctuality, loss in, [139], 15
Unreality, never patronised long, [316], 18
Unseen and unknown, power over us of, [199], 21
Unsettling, times of, needed, [565], 2
Unsophisticated man, the, [176], 17
Unsought, those that come, [482], 43
Unthinking persons, their speech, [193], 2
Untruth, an, that has the start, [314], 5
Unused, the, a burden, [519], 15
Up and doing, [243], 45
Upholstery, for whom, [508], 2
Upright, highway of, [435], 13;
subject to hatred and envy, [141], 3
Uprightness, a sure card, [148], 43;

commended, [539], 34
Urn, storied, hollowness of, [35], 20
Use, constant, effect of, [104], 43;
effect of, on strength, [184], 32;
essential to possession, [316], 43;
power of, [111], 33;
what we do not, [539], 26
Useful, but part of important, [520], 13;
encourages itself, [460], 15;
only to be gloried in, [300], 34;
with agreeable, mingling of, [327], 52;
regard of the ancients for, [208], 30
Usefulness, condition of, [144], 38;
incompatible with baseness, [186], 16
Useless, nothing, to sensible people, [180], 5;
people, [460], 16;
to self, useless to others, [151], 15
Usurer and his plough, [460], 17
Utmost, the, who does, [535], 3
Utopia, Emerson's, [169], 10;
the true, life in, [191], 22
Utopias, premature truths, [239], 29
Uttered, the, and unuttered, part of life, [460], 19
V
Vagabonds, nature-made, [292], 9
Vain, man, folly of, [489], 41;
men, how to treat, [243], 48
Vainglory, anti-Christian, [242], 28
Vale of life, cool, sequestered, [102], 10
Valetudinarians like misers, [345], 12
Valiant, and his sufferings, [460], 20;
as compared with cowards, [49], 26;
the most truly, [153], 26;
valour of, [3], 17
Valour, against adversity, [4], 69;
contrasted with endurance, [460], 22;
definition of, [103], 53;
in distress, [69], 48;
mean of, [441], 39;
of just man, [460], 21;
power of, [540], 29;
sad, wise, [379], 15;
the better part of, [418], 18;
the truest, [198], 14;
true, defined, [500], 41
Valours, our, our best gods, [339], 31
Value, in men and things, [460], 23, 24;
the one thing of, [445], 40
Vanity, a mark of humility, [490], 42;
a preservative against, [437], 41;
a source of, [40], 33;
a, which is deadly, [470], 2;
application to, of truth, [476], 1;
as lack of understanding, [92], 7;
as regards fashions, [477], 10;
compared with pride, [356], 34, 36;
corrupting power of, [507], 2;
desecrating power of, [476], 10;
difficult to manage, [474], 40;
in rags, [168], 28;
inherent in mankind, [92], 48;
masterpiece of, [100], 44;
our, versus dignity, [339], 32;
why insufferable, [537], 42
Vanquished, he could argue still, [89], 36
Vapour, floating, subject to gravity, [428], 48
Variety, source of pleasure, [278], 36;
the zest in, [315], 34
Vase, a bungled, [14], 6
Veil, a, of the gods, not to be lifted, [242], 11; [506], 7
Veils, the moral value of, [289], 21
Venerate, the untrained to, [507], 20
Veneration, deep and great affection, incompatible, [201], 8;
secret of, [460], 26;
that is godlike, [191], 43
Vengeance, deep, begotten of deep silence, [56], 55;
gods of, their action, [66], 6;
nature of, [375], 22;
noblest, [445], 9;
sacrifices from, [269], 39
Venturing, warrant for, [176], 36
Venus, the cruel pleasure of, [391], 10
Veracity as a duty, [445], 22
Verse that wounds, curst by Pope, [52], 2
Verses, writing, no special craft, [367], 11
Vesture, colour of, [422], 32;
cut of, [422], 32
Vexations not to be aggravated, [294], 39
Vice, all, under a guise of virtue, [474], 42;
an emancipator of the mind, [414], 21;
and virtue, methods of, contrasted, [45], 41;
dignified by action, [515], 18;
every, brink of a precipice, [327], 47;
evil of, [66], 31;
eradicable with time, [75], 27;
forsaking, [361], 45;
in the form of example, [512], 3;
only antidote for, [171], 19;
Roman, Juvenal on, [299], 38;
under disguise of virtue, [100], 33
Vices, attacking, in the abstract, [489], 38;
how regarded, [50], 11;
insinuating power of, [516], 22;
not all our own, [294], 43;
often from good qualities, [268], 26;
that have banished virtue, [225], 31
Vicissitude, advantage in, [12], 43
Victory, a Cadmæan, [216], 47;
by force, [552], 19;
celebrated in song, [533], 3;
different effects of, [171], 32;
greatest, [391], 12; main thing, [178], 29;
masters of, [444], 41;
no, without cost, [307], 37;
noblest, [227], 11;
not by violence, [191], 30;
reward of, [514], 5;
secret of, [537], 16;
without bloodshed, [132], 14
Victuals, one's, criticising, [533], 9
Vigilance as a virtue, [518], 13
Vile, nothing so, as to yield no good, [317], 1
Villains, rich and poor, in league, [545], 13
Villainy, diverse rewards of, [332], 55
Vine round the oak, and the reason, [453], 45
Vinegar, the sharpest, [456], 33
Violence, as a manager, [261], 9;
short-lived, [20], 42
Violent, the, short-lived, [316], 41
Violin, a beginner on, [192], 31
Virgil's, ambition, [412], 30;
epitaph, [268], 4
Virtue, a defence, [5], 1; [36], 35;
a soul raised to, a masterpiece, [322], 23;
attainment of, [445], 6;
according to reason, [460], 44;
and vice, how to treat, [370], 28;
alone happiness, [220], 1;
as a covering, [188], 21;
as an anchor, [511], 14;
attribute of, [382], 14;
base of every, [257], 27;
best plain set, [120], 8;
certainty in, where to find, [189], 31;
cheap without trial, [154], 20;
child of freedom, [67], 12;
complacent fair-weather, [552], 33;
condition of its growth, [249], 55;
consciousness of, [91], 2;
cornerstone of, [386], 12;
decease of, Cicero on, [128], 46;
defined, [546], 4;
dependence of, on misfortune, [136], 33;
divine path to, [412], 47;
element of, [485], 5, 7;
end of life, [111], 35;
enduring, [70], 15;
for its own sake, [214], 26;
force of, [506], 22;
foundation of all, [164], 4;
her sublime elevation, [488], 45;
Hesiod's path to, [451], 35;
how to acquire, [243], 10;
how to see her form, [488], 45;
how to seek, [405], 55;
in a beautiful form, [132], 24;
in ambition and in authority, [188], 23;
in regretting, [269], 34;
initial, of the race, [436], 38;
its brother, [307], 34;
its own reward, [11], 1;
joy of, in being put to test, [119], 6;
least, not to be deferred, [57], 5;
less in favour than vice, [149], 44;
love for, [233], 34;
made a vice, [526], 11;
manifestation of, measure of, [19], 64;
measure of a man's, [13], 1;
must be dignified, [156], 34;
never cruel, [140], 38;
no, quite unconscious, [303], 46;
no tax on, good of, [89], 53;
not valued by fortunate, [67], 27;
obstructions to, [23], 46;
only want of, despised, [330], 18;
ostentation in, [149], 3;
parent of, [193], 37;
pathway to, [548], 54;
primal condition of, [449], 20;
produced by collision, [44], 28;
proper theatre of, [307], 25;
pure, till tried, [212], 19;
pursuit of, beyond bounds, [194], 43;
sayings about, [66], 29-33; [228], 6-12; 397, [3], 4, 6; [515], 35-54; [516], 1-9;
silent, arm of world, [464], 11;
sometimes awkwardly set, [181], 15;
that can't be bought, rare, [105], 13;
that requires to be guarded, [414], 22;
the only necessity, [507], 26;
the sentinel, [46], 38;
to be exercised, [165], 24;
to her votaries, [48], 7;
true, [500], 42, 43;
two roads to, [570], 6;
under calumny, [34], 54;
under oppression, [50], 2;
versus pedigree, [164], 48;
we boast of, [265], 41;
weak, [530], 14;
within, honour without, [175], 26;
without discretion, [559], 28;
without its reward, [260], 7;
without restraint, [183], 34;
zeal for, value of, [331], 34
Virtues, acknowledged by Christianity, [43], 6;
and faults, interchangeable, [523], 25;
at different ages, [185], 28;
fortifying, [432], 27;
gentlemanly, rare, [526], 7;
godlike, parent of all, [420], 16;
greatest, Augustine on, [432], 43;
late in maturing, [438], 3;
lost in interests, [239], 32;
milder, correlated to severer, [442], 10;
not all our own, [294], 43;
one's, thinking of, [438], 37;
our, sayings about, [339], 34-37;
permanency of our, [530], 30;
severe and restrictive, [453], 18;
to profit one, [509], 22;
two chief, [319], 36;
two kinds of, [399], 11;
we speak of, [528], 18
Virtuous, deeds and their reward, [109], 22;
most, of men, [444], 10;
sayings about the, [461], 1-3, 21;
the, defined, [540], 43
Visible, garment of invisible, [457], 24
Vision, clearness of, its comprehensiveness, [495], 30;
consequence of intensified, [395], 22;
imperfect, effect of, [323], 19;
limit of, for most, [304], 37;
measure of our, [539], 20;
now, through a glass darkly, [110], 28;
the, of visions for a man, [422], 40
Visionaries, all, [521], 6
Visions, the, we see, [521], 6
Vitality, fate of what has no, [540], 33
Vocation, a peculiar, to every one, [75], 14;
apt to mistake our, [521], 10;
chosen for one, [296], 32;
of man, primary, [449], 22
Voice, as index of character, [473], 12;
human, power of, [436], 5;
is in my sword, [167], 7;
inner, to be trusted, [519], 10;
of man, general and perpetual, [429], 44;
soft, gentle, and low, [155], 4;
wisest, no longer divine, [463], 25
Void, in things, [321], 42
Voltaire, impotency of his logic, [197], 24;
in relation to his time, [82], 34;
on his life, [258], 27
Volubility different from pertinency, [42], 49
Volume, flesh-bound, the only revelation of God, [428], 46
Vote, of a slave, a nuisance, [307], 11
Votes, should be weighed, [265], 37;
worthlessness of decisions by, [520], 15
Voting, decision by, Cromwell's protest against, [517], 36
Vow to heaven to be first paid, [321], 11
Vows, unheedful, [507], 23
Vox populi, vox dei, falsehood of, [414], 15
Vulgar, incapable of pure truth, [289], 20;
people, mark of, [403], 12;
respect of, for wealth, [136], 42;
sayings about, [461], 10-12;
working on, with fine sense, [492], 10
Vulgarity, and fashion, [102], 30, 34;
condemned, [64], 9;
essence of, [425], 35;
marks of, [69], 30;
or solitude, [465], 12
Vulnerable, point, our, [522], 10;
point, the, [164], 20
W
Wages, God's business, [279], 38;
never to be angrily demanded, [304], 5;
our claim of, [260], 43
Waggons, creaking, [49], 39
Wailing, no remedy, [311], 24;
over the dead, ineffectual, [230], 29
Waiting, advantage of, [94], 16;
in vain, [20], 14;
not Goethe's way, [160], 24
Walking, a falling forward, [461], 14;
a series of falls, [13], 2
Wallets, our two, [345], 41
Wanderers o'er eternity, [33], 27
Wandering, think of, [171], 37
Want, caused by haste, [141], 7;
effect of, on heart, [538], 18;
full satisfaction of, [493], 2;
prayer of, to be listened to, [116], 28;
that man has to dread, [204], 40
Wants, four material, [287], 5;
knowledge and effort necessary for supply of, [152], 38;
man's, [266], 17;
source of our, [203], 48;
which we are insensible of, [12], 30
War, a game which subjects might veto, [33], 32;
an iron cure, [60], 27;
and peace, Schiller on, [221], 32;
art of, Napoleon on, [567], 13;
art of, Wellington on, [462], 5;
begun, hell let loose, [137], 19;
conquest by cruelty in, [50], 33;
conquest in, [201], 1;
epithets of, [27], 33, 41, [44], 45;
evil, [181], 38;
evil of, [101], 31; [191], 30;
for war, [155], 8;
final aim of, [59], 54;
glorious, pride, pomp, and circumstance of, [102], 22;
hell enlarged, [122], 31;
honour of, [382], 13;
horror of, [506], 26;
how to look on, [27], 43;
how to still, [288], 48;
legitimate object of, [27], 42;
man in time of, [188], 52;
mistakes in, inevitable, [150], 36;
murder, [98], 28;
no second blunder in, [30], 30;
once business, [112], 34;
right form of, [106], 6;
ruin to thousands, [280], 32;
sacrifices in, [209], 48;
sign of injustice, [549], 24;
sources of, [116], 11;
success in, [405], 31;
success in, right earned by, [150], 1;
three things required in, [569], 37;
when just, [216], 41
Ware, bad, never cheap, [329], 45;
no, without the money, [565], 32
Warfare, the greatest, [391], 12;
the spiritual, of these days, [191], 35
Warlike people, vices of all, [119], 42
Warmth, great, at outset, an evil sign, [135], 23;
in winter, [191], 27
Warning, comparative worthlessness of, [334], 22;
word, not heeded, [23], 10
Warnings, earth full of, [75], 47
Warrior, an old, [15], 59;
and war-horse, but a vision, [414], 24
Warriors, great, why remembered, [135], 24
Wars and mothers, [27], 35
Waste, caused by haste, [141], 7;
where no enjoyment, [544], 35
Waster, after an earner, [77], 40
Watching, vain, [96], 24
Water, afar, and fire, [3], 32;
and blood, different destinations of, [425], 2;
and wine as mirrors, [192], 30;
as servant and master, [106], 39;
drinking, [73], 8;
not to be quarrelled with, [522], 5;
pure, to be sought at the fountain, [42], 38;
smooth, to be guarded against, [57], 34;
spilt upon the ground, [21], 13;
that has passed the mill, [45], 54;
where the brook is deep, [394], 40
Waters, still, deadliest, [313], 27
Wattle, Captain, [63], 44
Wave, the longest, [439], 37
Waves, tainted with death, [103], 45
Way, a, fashioning, through the impassable, [331], 8;
best, to be chosen, however rough, [42], 43;
good, to be inquired after, [402], 16;
how to make, [312], 24;
noiseless tenor of their, [102], 10;
seeing one's, [168], 26;
that seemeth right, [470], 42;
truth and life, importance of the, [560], 2;
wrong in one's own, rather than right in another, [45], 2
Ways to end, many, [10], 44

Wayside, building by, [145], 22
Weak, man, every, under a tyrant, [325], 43;
the, concessions of, [421], 19;
the, moderation of, [226], 14;
the, strength of, [323], 41;
when united, [512], 49
Weakest, the, [386], 2;
spot, the, in every one, [461], 38
Weaklings must lie, [443], 31
Weakness, and ignorance, how to treat, [349], 5;
born vanquished, [403], 29;
every man his, [92], 5;
how not to expose a, [176], 45;
innate and acquired, [398], 29;
man's, God's respect for, [125], 28;
mischief of, [58], 7;
misery of, [490], 44;
not so dependent as strength, [403], 30
Weaknesses, concealment of our, [564], 4
Weal, every, has its woe, [90], 34;
human, the sum of, [187], 37
Wealth, a burden, unless understood, [553], 7;
a dubious gain, [415], 8;
a form of, [357], 8;
a man's, the measure of, [533], 29;
a spring of, [220], 30;
accompaniments of, [49], 56;
amassing, [178], 51;
and freedom, effect of, [548], 56;
and place, get, [122], 6;
and poverty, [354], 11;
and poverty, connection of, with moral qualities, [152], 21;
Butler's definition of, [111], 39;
by mere labour and economy, [303], 30;
condition of possessing, [522], 45;
deference to, [329], 3;
effect of, [194], 37;
essence of, [426], 3;
evanesence of, [238], 5;
first, [428], 43;
for sake of independence, [118], 55;
gaining versus guiding, [119], 10;
gathering, [118], 57;
powerless to give happiness, [35], 30;
gotten before wit, [146], 19;
hidden, here, [243], 13;
how to save men from, [565], 41;
ill-acquired, [238], 4;
ill-gotten, not lasting, [181], 43;
in relation to man and woman, [124], 14;
instability of, [77], 44;
its destination nowadays, [53], 14;
limit to want, [250], 11;
loss of, misery of, [200], 35;
lust of, evil of, [345], 43;
man's best, [6], 58;
man's true, [91], 7;
material, of a country defined, [441], 37;
moral condition of the power of, [508], 35;
much, little enjoyment, [285], 15;
natural, according to Socrates, [47], 21;
not a source of pleasure, [513], 23;
not quickly won, [132], 5;
not happiness, [209], 14;
of Indies, who would bring home, [152], 50;
or want, children of, common fate of, [41], 53;
people of, [460], 7;
poor, keeping up appearance of, [311], 30;
poor man's, [41], 45;
parted with before death, [41], 13;
power of, [189], 16;
rapidly accumulated, [319], 2;
ruinous to a nation without intelligence, [305], 27;
sayings about, [461], 39-44;
source of, no question, [506], 18;
the only, [474], 44;
the substantial, of a man, [456], 12;
the world's, [465], 25;
to men of sense, [276], 9;
true veins of, [459], 15;
unjust, fate of, [145], 27;
versus men, [181], 40;
way to, [461], 32;
without enjoyment, [559], 31;
which is wealth, [166], 3;
without rich heart, [559], 23
Weapon, murderous, dangerous to carry, [119], 23
Weapons of war, Luther's estimate, [35], 19
Wearing out, compared with rusting, [105], 14
Weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable, [162], 45
Weathercock, like a, [211], 16
Weathers, something good in all, [478], 32
Web, a tangled, [322], 33;
begun, sure of thread, [109], 20
Wedded people, most, one couple more, [284], 15
Wedge, to be effectual, [462], 3
Wedlock, an awakening, [275], 14;
humble, [163], 43;
perfect, man and woman in, [189], 1;
state of sorrow, [78], 19
Weeds, as a sign of the soil, [13], 49;
native to fattest soil, [284], 38;
noisome, [308], 36;
showiness of, [23], 43;
to be weeded out in time, [317], 40
Weep, women appointed to, [33], 17
Weeping, as king, and not weeping as father, [86], 10;
beauty, the image of, [476], 41;
eyes turned to heaven, [553], 10;
in children rather than men, [29], 8
Weights, greatest, how God hangs, [125], 49
Weighty, willing to be weighed, [151], 23
Welfare, human, source of, [562], 43; [563], 2;
national, condition of, [144], 7;
of the whole, importance of, [86], 1
Well, a bad, [32], 11
Well, or ill, matter of feeling, [93], 22;
to do, who fears, [551], 18
Well-being, essential to being, [27], 21
Well-considered, the, and well-resolved, to be done, [540], 38
Well-doing, here or nowhere, [175], 41;
patient doing, [474], 45
Well-done, the value of, [560], 25;
twice done, [48], 31
Well-read man, respect for, [338], 16
Well-springs everywhere, [190], 43
Wellington, saying of, at Waterloo, [140], 32
Wheat, a corn of, must die, [96], 18
Wheel of fortune, the, and its spokes, [462], 4
Wheels, great, uphill and downhill, [240], 53
When, question of, [518], 25
Whence, the question of, vain, [488], 14
Where, and when, significance of, [272], 29;
question of, and how, [518], 25
Wherefore, the, dark to us, [55], 4
Whetstone, office of, [117], 37
Whim, every man his, [240], 46
Whimpering for the fool, [232], 52
Whining, sentimental, as a symptom, [412], 22
Whips and scorns of time, [553], 2
Whirligig of time, the, [485], 47
Whisky, Burns on, [195], 6
Whisperings, cut-throat, [52], 15, 18
Whist, Talleyrand on, [517], 41
Whistled, for want of thought, [149], 18
Whole, a, never seen, [302], 32;
a, thrown away on public, [519], 27;
everything woven into the, [555], 40;
the, connection with, to be aimed at, [11], 38;
the, how to benefit by, [556], 26
Wholeness, not halfness, the rule, [520], 1, 5
Wholesome and poisonous, how man learns what is, [37], 6
Wicked, and wicked one, [522], 14;
as judged by the deluge, [498], 24;
career of, [429], 36;
compared with indiscreet, [109], 44;
fellow become pious, [24], 56;
listening to, [495], 29;
men, their disbelief in good, [239], 5;
not to be envied, [114], 45;
perfidy of, a blessing, [44], 37;
sacrifice of, [452], 18;
still with us, [58], 33;
tender mercies of, [457], 10;
uneasy in presence of good, [184], 1
Wickedness, a method in, [470], 12;
beginning of, [417], 20;
cowardly, [320], 9;
extreme, never of sudden growth, [295], 23;
its own reward, [11], 1;
licentious, its career, [538], 24;
treasures of, [499], 16
Widows, easy-crying, [76], 12
Wife, a childless, a dear friend, [213], 62;
a, marrying, [510], 42, 43;
a, to a man, [13], 3;
and a fortune, [29], 1;
and children, hostages to fortune, [146], 44;
and weans, Burns on, [478], 42;
as a trial, [93], 16;
as husband, [20], 49;
choice of, [277], 16; [412], 19;
choosing, [185], 18;
dearer than bride, [162], 8;
described, [389], 2;
dowry of, [72], 1;
fault of, due to husband, [212], 18;
good, value of, [17], 16; [54], 31;
husband answerable for, [383], 39;
love for, [38], 29;
my true and honourable, [565], 13;
rule in choosing a, [62], 4;
sayings about a, [462], 19-21;
secret of her influence, [36], 36;
what a man wants in a, [415], 25;
who findeth a, [554], 13;
whom to choose for, [42], 42, 46;
with a good husband, how known, [542], 33
Wilderness, life and light in, [190], 43
Wiles, the craftiest, a bad cloak, [422], 9
Will, a divided, evil of, [152], 46;
a divine, faith in, [538], 30;
a holy, lives, [79], 13;
alone formidable, [446], 17;
an independent, [62], 37;
analogue of, [44], 30;
and inclination in relation to virtue, [6], 43;
and judgment, [437], 21;
and way, [532], 37;
as law, [231], 41;
authoritative, [89], 43;
centre of good and evil, [475], 19;
everything, [228], 19;
firm, power of a, [151], 8;
government of, better than knowledge, [131], 23;
in affections and passions, [462], 22;
incarnated, our interest in manifestations of, [395], 12;
its nature, [517], 21;
its only satisfaction, [446], 15;
man's determining force, [313], 24;
man's want, [344], 54;
no compelling, [5], 6;
no, no wit, [149], 19;
obstructed, [182], 28;
omnipotence of, [315], 5;
peculiar to man, [8], 55;
power of, [17], 19; [517], 38;
power of right, [241], 46;
power of, with skill and perseverance, [488], 14;
preciousness to a man of his, [475], 38;
ready, the power of, [546], 9;
sovereign in the world, [94], 29;
the great of, [144], 51;
the, of God, [125], 44;
the rudder, [264], 23;
the soul of deed, [6], 36;
thwarted in world, [464], 33;
usurping the place of intellect, [323], 40;
virtue of a strong, [322], 29;
who forfeits his, [551], 21
"Will do," making, wait upon "I should," 552, 15
Willing, all, effecting nothing, [152], 46;
everything and doing nothing, [298], 21;
the virtue of, [263], 25
Willingness not enough, [203], 40
Willow and oak, [462], 23
Wills, our, and fates, contrary, [339], 41
Wind, sowing, [479], 50;
the, observing, [148], 5;
the, with and against, [490], 12
Windbags, their doom, [435], 34
Windows, prying into, [148], 9
Winds of heaven to visit, [164], 24
Wine, a blessing and bane, [104], 33, 36;
effect of, on nature, [546], 43;
eloquence from, [104], 2;
great fault of, [259], 35;
good (see Good wine);
no, if drunk like water, [142], 22;
no, no love, [326], 40;
power of, [16], 29; [514], 28;
revealing power of, [182], 35;
sweet, vinegar from, [112], 44;
sweet, when sour, [408], 11;
tasting of, [428], 20;
treacherous friend, [413], 19;
women, and song, who loves not, [532], 30
Wine-cup, more fatal than the sea, [182], 26
Wings, brave, gift of, [125], 37;
people vainest of their, [202], 52;
without feet, [150], 32
Winking with the eye, [148], 58
Winter in lap of May, [33], 37
Wisdom, a mark of, [391], 28;
a point of, [199], 47;
aim of, not happiness, [81], 22;
and gray hairs, [136], 15;
and her charge, [484], 34;
and misfortune, [54], 33;
and wit, [558], 2, 13;
and wit, natural gifts, [304], 20;
appeals of, disregarded, [112], 4;
at another's expense, [104], 19;
before gold, [29], 49;
beginning of, [417], 24;
better than valour, [221], 33;
bird of, her flight, [418], 27;
condition of, [153], 34;
constancy in, [479], 18;
contrasted with knowledge, [220], 15, 20, [23], 47; [221], 5;
dependent of, on courage, [139], 13;
discernment of, [557], 33;
divine, effect of belief in, [161], 27;
effect of, [548], 20;
essential to justice, [216], 27;
fair, to rule, [243], 16;
first and second point of, [428], 29;
first order of, [20], 46;
first step of, [515], 38;
first step towards, [356], 54;
forms in which we love, [525], 35;
from ability, [308], 49;
function of, [197], 41;
great, a mark of, [199], 37;
great point of, [198], 38;
greatest, [473], 4;
hallmark of, [164], 2;
high, allied to insanity, [434], 34;
high value of, [133], 44;
highest, [435], 11;
highest heaven of, near, [434], 42;
how gained, [12], 21;
how recognisable, [207], 29;
how to learn, [236], 7;
how we learn, [525], 15;
human, honour due to, [123], 34;
in deeds, [310], 8;
in keeping golden mean, [400], 38;
in mouth of fanatic, [531], 19;
infused into everything, [92], 46;
invariable mark of, [437], 9;
knowledge involved in practice of, [150], 18;
Lavater's definition of, [473], 32;
learning rules of, without conforming to them, [151], 33;
lesson in, to be welcomed, [176], 15;
lessons of, [240], 7, 8;
main lesson of, [198], 48;
man of, [440], 28;
master-work of, [493], 32;
matter of years, [55], 27;
men's, [522], 28;
mile-stones on road to, [300], 28;
not always wise, [65], 2;
not self-derived, [295], 25;
not to be too wise, [86], 15; [477], 26;
of the wise, [462], 38;
only one, avails, [319], 20;
oracles of, [285], 21;
power of, [485], 40; [514], 9;
price of, [449], 18;
profession versus practice of, [93], 37;
road to, how measured, [442], 25;
seat of, [452], 37;
shown in sense of follies, [225], 35;
simple, our love for, [144], 3;
source of, [194], 6;
striving after, in the eyes of fools, [543], 44;
sublimity of, [456], 9;
superiority of, [548], 58;
talking and acting, two things, [201], 23;
taught by age, [21], 14;
taught by Nature, [329], 36;
test of, [276], 13;
that is too late, [532], 16;
that would win men, [563], 25;
the greatest, [190], 5;
the prime, [493], 39;
those who follow, [480], 23;
three paths to, [34], 19;
throughout life rare, [242], 36;
to be husbanded, [175], 7;
to them that hold her, [389], 1;
too early or too late, [66], 20;
too late, [344], 50;
too much, [569], 34;
travelling in quest of, [480], 19;
truest, [465], 20;
unmarketable if for sale, [533], 17;
value of, [162], 4;
versus fortune, [141], 15;
versus learning, [484], 6;
wellspring of, [463], 43;
which one is forbidden to impart, [533], 16;
who findeth, [554], 15;
whom to thank for, [175], 30;
wish to be alone in, [39], 16;
without self-respect, [295], 36;
world's treatment of, [206], 34;
worth of, [332], 56
Wisdom's root, [369], 3
Wise, always few, [234], 19;
and fool, as regards speech, [235], 5;
and foolish, contrasted, [80], 58; [197], 22; 462, [32], 34; 463, [2], 9;
and foolish, difference between, [10], 39;
and their defect of zeal for converts, [320], 16;
and their words, [67], 10;

as serpents, [30], 4; [399], 27;
be, to-day, [30], 1;
be, with speed, [30], 2;
cautious, [162], 17;
ears and tongues of, [61], 34;
everything, already thought, [8], 62;
few to be followed, [108], 16;
for saying nothing, [165], 43;
in time, [153], 29;
learn from their enemies, [16], 51;
life of, compared with that of poor, [558], 44;
man, a mark of, [478], 24;
man, a, reticencies of, [307], 49;
man, a very, [286], 26;
man and fool, [362], 40;
man and poet, [448], 11;
man and the state, [492], 7;
man and the world, [151], 37;
man, as distinct from learned, [8], 1;
man, characteristic of, [151], 26; [197], 42;
man, contrasted with sagacious, [566], 36;
man, his rule in action, [380], 31;
man, latter part of his life, [438], 11;
man looks ahead, [380], 32
man, lordship of, [380], 30;
man, mouth of, [434], 1;
man, progress of, compared with that of fool, [522], 3;
man, strong, [531], 18;
man, that is esteemed by world, [438], 40;
man, the keeper of his secrets, [459], 19;
man, the reflections of, wisely limited, [199], 48;
man, the strong, [455], 32;
men and fools, [5], 54, 57, [60], 61, 62, [64], 65; [108], 54;
men and poverty, [354], 16;
men, folly in, [467], 20;
men, indispensable to God, [126], 21;
men rarer than learned, [526], 9;
men, the little foolery of, [439], 23;
not independent of advice, [311], 40;
nothing insipid to, [315], 6;
prone to doubt, [162], 17;
saws and modern instances, full of, [267], 21;
sayings about, [462], 30-38; [463], 1-17;
the, blessedness of, [479], 34;
the constancy of, defined, [224], 33;
the, folly in, [469], 34;
the, guide of, [65], 12;
the, law of, [438], 22;
the, should confer together, [328], 3;
the only, [479], 20;
the only, sad, [151], 18;
the only wretched, [116], 10;
their aversion to society, [235], 4;
thoughts of, how expressed, [296], 10;
thoughts of, value of, [85], 32;
to be, and to love, impossible, [490], 46;
when compelled into silence, [378], 25;
who to be called, [34], 45;
wise to himself, [144], 2;
words of, [463], 46;
words of, in troublous times, [192], 7
Wisely worldly, be, not worldly wise, [29], 75
Wisest, content with destiny, [67], 11;
man, the, [68], 47; [532], 20;
man, often not wise at all, [143], 44;
sayings about, [463], 19-28;
who thinks not himself so, [234], 32
Wish, an unfulfilled, pain of, [446], 37;
effect of, gratification of every, [533], 2;
father to thought, [104], 38;
one's, when in love, [544], 44;
an ungranted, lesson in, [535], 30
Wishes, and powers, chasm between, [140], 13;
God's, versus man's, [62], 11;
how our, lengthen with years, [249], 56;
youthful, [520], 3
Wishing, and possessing, [521], 37;
to be despised, [62], 24
Wishing-gate, the, [463], 31
Wit, affectation of, [480], 29;
and folly, balanced, [109], 33;
and judgment, at strife, [469], 7;
and sense, [467], 5;
and wisdom, natural gifts, [304], 20;
at a nonplus without folly, [12], 37;
at the expense of memory, [330], 38;
best, [32], 17;
contrasted with genius, [223], 4;
contrasted with humour, [164], 8;
defined, [513], 14;
disturbance of equipoise, [185], 27;
given in vain, [399], 7;
how developed, [396], 7;
how it comes, [510], 2;
how spoiled, [223], 7;
how to reply to, [373], 43;
in conversation, [223], 1;
its most brilliant flashes, [443], 35;
kind of, to be bridled, [469], 9;
like a coquette, [223], 8;
little, weary feet, [251], 44;
men of, fools necessary to, [505], 26;
men of, two classes of, [468], 14;
must be spontaneous, [101], 43;
never at home, [157], 18;
news only to ignorance, [231], 10;
not confined to one, [10], 49;
not to be arrested, [223], 6;
not to be importuned, [565], 20;
not to be too refined, [71], 45;
one's, matter of self-complacency, [318], 8;
of language and of ideas, contrasted, [463], 32;
preferring, to good sense, [495], 2;
relation of, to talent, [83], 50;
sparks of, not enough, [488], 25;
the body and soul of, [32], 36, 37;
the highest order of, [373], 30;
thrown away, [10], 50;
too much, evil effect of, [497], 47;
touchstone of, [223], 16;
true, [500], 44;
true, characteristic of, [253], 34;
unsparing, [31], 52;
value of one's own, [15], 63;
without modesty, [313], 42
Wit's pedlar, [144], 4
Witch, a, being, and being reckoned, [487], 47
Within, what is not from, weak at root, [520], 10
Without, within, [476], 11
Wits, and dunces, [25], 5;
effect of dainty living on, [102], 45;
great, allied to madness, [135], 26, 27;
intemperate, [195], 25;
never puzzled, [150], 10;
rarely men of genius, [276], 6;
shallow, their censure, [388], 27;
short-lived, [389], 29;
silly people, [362], 36;
without thinking, [126], 5
Witticism, holding in, difficult, [201], 15
Witty, who can't be, [345], 14
Wives, choice of, [105], 20;
economy, virtue of, [164], 23;
ill, [1], 1
Woe, sour, delight of, in fellowship, [400], 28;
that heritage of, [253], 21;
trappings and suits of, [385], 15;
trappings of, [167], 12;
trifling with, evil of, [252], 58
Woes, a way to peace, [174], 4;
mortal, the pathos of, [406], 50;
that cannot be healed, [551], 2
Wolf, caught by ears, [183], 17;
changes coat, not character, [257], 52
Wolsey, on his fall, [292], 51;
reflection of, on his fall, [138], 31
Woman, a, at the window, [71], 17;
a, four storeys high, [27], 36;
a gluttonous, [173], 28;
a, in every strife, [318], 12;
a learned, Euripides on, [399], 38;
a loving, a priestess, [91], 43;
a, mode of showing love to, [495], 21;
a, openly bad, [16], 31;
a perfect, [16], 28;
a restriction upon, [21], 49;
a spiritual auxiliary, [223], 39;
a, to be praised, [103], 24;
a true, home always around, [549], 11;
admiration of, for courage, [316], 26;
aim of, [288], 44;
always extreme, [24], 5;
and her passion of love, [187], 25;
as protector, [505], 28;
as taskmaster, [240], 18;
a truly educated, [307], 51;
born of tardiness, [285], 34;
case of, betrayed, [544], 16;
changeable, [71], 18;
character of, [511], 45;
circling ivy, [264], 6;
counsel of virtuous, [242], 1;
courage of, under strong affection, [539], 41;
daring of, [22], 44;
defined, [389], 4 (see She);
delight and terror of man, [35], 34;
beautiful, Fontenelle's description of, [1], 17;
difference between the "yes" and "no" of, [29], 58;
disappointed, fury of, [528], 20;
disgrace for a, [168], 40;
divination in, [70], 6;
empire of, characterised, [425], 5;
end of education of, [425], 9;
errors of, source of, [425], 28;
every, alike in the dark, [257], 36;
every, at heart a rake, [276], 32;
fine, conversation of, [476], 37;
first glory of, [360], 13;
formed to be a mother, [291], 8;
functions of, contrasted with man's, [262], 19;
grace of, [494], 40;
good, compared with a man, [24], 41;
handsomeness in, [307], 50;
heart of, [233], 5;
heart of pious, [75], 49;
her laughing and weeping, [104], 36;
her prison and kingdom of heaven, [65], 25;
honoured, God pleased, [549], 25,
how she can make sure of love, [568], 5;
in argument with men, [185], 8;
in unwomanly rags, [558], 28;
in humanity, [225], 19;
in love, [307], 52;
inconstant, [225], 11;
influence of, on a man's career, [48], 41;
jealousy of, [192], 46;
life without, [380], 18;
like a mill, [11], 12;
lost, [295], 31;
lot of, [556], 8;
love for, in ignorance of her, [535], 25;
love in, [471], 35;
love of, contrasted with man's, [265], 8;
man's indebtedness to, [33], 9;
manners of, everything, [207], 42;
men without, [326], 20;
ministering angel, [323], 1;
mission of, [292], 21;
mistake in creating, [292], 10;
moved by jewels, [74], 6;
Nature's masterpiece, [292], 10;
noblest station of, [385], 3;
not to have her own way, [176], 21;
offended, [183], 41;
one language enough for, [334], 27;
only admirable, [30], 3;
our ruler, [69], 18;
patience in, [314], 14;
perfect, [346], 5;
perfected, [76], 7;
power of mere love on, [448], 1;
power of one hair of, [332], 29;
power of, to dispel cares, [174], 21;
preacher to man, [460], 43;
privilege in the household of, [440], 18;
queen through her grace, [221], 29;
ready with her answer, [567], 28;
reputation of, [451], 15;
rich, insufferable, [196], 2;
road to the heart of, [166], 37;
rule of, by serving, [244], 5;
sentiment, [264], 23;
sayings about, [463], 35-39;
sharpness of vision of, [85], 31;
smiles of, [27], 34;
stranger than man, [533], 40;
the pettish, [504], 21;
thoughts of, alone, [285], 35;
to be her own, [240], 55;
to wed an older than herself, [242], 39;
tongue of, [226], 1;
tow, [263], 14;
true, value of, [376], 8;
unjustly accused, [565], 9;
virtues becoming in, [391], 27;
virtuous, described, [551], 1;
vision and world of, as contrasted with man's, [55], 6;
wakes to love, [262], 15;
what makes a, a queen, [488], 41;
what the word contains, [59], 51;
who does not inspire love and reverence, [533], 37;
who wears the breeches, [542], 35;
why misunderstood, [451], 2;
wise and foolish, [95], 17;
wisest and elegant, contrasted, [463], 28;
wish of every, [212], 17;
wit in, [307], 50;
with brains tackled to a geck, [549], 6;
with dowry enough, [74], 12;
word of a, in love, [285], 33;
word of, to be respected, [170], 4;
worth in, [218], 11;
worth wooing, lover who wins, [559], 12;
worthy of love, [389], 5.
See Mulier.
Woman's, a, reason, [167], 5;
advice, how to treat, [356], 13;
eye, eloquent, [467], 18; [111], 44;
judgment, [267], 34;
life, [538], 18;
looks, books, [288], 14;
lot, Schiller on, [323], 12;
love, [266], 48;
love, preciousness of, [218], 16;
will, [548], 6;
will, the power of, [38], 9;
wisdom, [417], 5;
wit, not to be confined, [260], 22;
work, [267], 12
Womanhood, genius in, [120], 23
Women, a blessing and bane, [104], 33;
and others' opinions of them, [275], 25;
as haters, [483], 8;
as mystics, [443], 43;
as talkers, [345], 16;
best medicine for, [446], 10;
brain-, compared with heart-women, [419], 9;
burden they are born to, [496], 22;
business of, [244], 6;
characteristic of, [238], 17, 19;
cause of their errors, [275], 6;
dependence on, of honesty in men, [176], 18;
differences among, [110], 20; [274], 31;
discreet, characteristic of, [69], 5;
education of, not to be committed to men, [71], 23;
effect of beauty on, [487], 51;
effect of government on, [487], 51;
effect of virtue on, [487], 51;
fair, know it, [173], 16;
fate of, [206], 9;
finer than men, [27], 39;
foolish, [168], 2;
given to dissimulation, [168], 43;
good, power of, [78], 42;
good, Romilly's obligations to, [475], 11;
good, the only grudges of, [130], 32;
grace in, better than beauty, [131], 33;
great, characteristics of, [135], 28;
higher worth of, its risk, [450], 17;
how to choose, [566], 2;
in England and in Italy, [82], 45;
inextinguishable passion of, [448], 4;
influence of, on manners, [61], 29;
invention among, [513], 28;
love of, [275], 26, 28;
middle-aged in England, [188], 14;
most, without character, [284], 41;
nature in, allied to art, [291], 21;
nature of, Terence on, [317], 25;
parts they play, [477], 36;
peculiar badges of, [286], 28;
power of, [238], 18;
power of kindness in, [218], 46;
proper province for, [427], 12;
pursuits of, and men's, [10], 47;
sayings about, [64], 14, 15; 67, [8], 9;
seduced, [477], 15;
services of, [78], 23, 24;
so-called nature of, [536], 44;
society of, value of, [454], 5;
sole precious good for, [24], 44;
that are serviceable, [442], 40;
that inspire the greatest passion, [37], 57;
the book of, [234], 10;
their power to govern, [479], 6;
to be praised, [114], 14;
to what appointed, [33], 17;
two faults of, [275], 14;
two passions in, [188], 10;
use of knowledge to, [460], 13;
virtue in, contrasted with that of men, [536], 12;
who grill, fate of, [273], 31;
who love their husbands, their reward, [451], 6;
why they dislike one another, [238], 35;
wit in, [223], 2;
worth of, [11], 6;
writings of, [566], 22
Women's, eyes, books, arts, academies, [116], 34;
fancies less giddy than men's, [242], 39;
tongues, [59], 53
Won, the, never lost, [314], 26
Wonder, and fear, effect on the spirits of, [192], 34;
deemed vulgar, [299], 25;
inevitable, [35], 23;
refraining from, [299], 26;
significance of, [441], 3
Wonderful, not affected by time, [197], 23
Wonders, all alike, [307], 54;
man amidst, [161], 8
Wood, not seen for the trees, [142], 14
Woods and fields, senses of, [31], 12
Wooed, women should be, [523], 10
Wooing, and winning, [172], 28;
of prudent men, [219], 40;
Scotch, [30], 35;
time, favourite, [64], 3
Wool, gathering and weaving, [202], 22
Word, a living, value of, [29], 38;
a man's, distrust by the pedant of, [22], 36;

a profitable, [336], 57;
an immortal seedgrain, [36], 39;
enough to wise, [63], 39;
every idle, to be accounted for, [91], 31;
fit, prosperity of, [125], 17;
free, [55], 9;
from the Lord, effect of, [533], 33;
God's, man's true bread, [265], 33;
idlest, a seed, [314], 13;
ill, effect of, on liking, [332], 9;
in a twisted ear, [53], 43;
in season, pregnancy, of, [25], 19, 20;
incarnated, [263], 47;
its abiding meaning, [11], 34;
known by context, [312], 7;
man's, weight of, [267], 11;
of an hour, significance of, [333], 43;
of God, its obscurity, [456], 43;
of God, not to be sold, [344], 14;
once vulgarised, [25], 17;
power of a, [80], 5;
saddest, [110], 30;
significance of a, [110], 36;
single, often a poem, [19], 36;
spoken and written, [517], 45;
the, he that spake it, [149], 28;
to wise man, [512], 48;
truly spoken, lasting, [316], 33;
unspoken, contrasted with spoken, [325], 19;
uttered, effect of, on self-will, [212], 16;
uttered, irreclaimable, [88], 43; 295; 43;
when it flows free, [65], 27;
why the, became man, [321], 16;
winged, power of, [329], 13;
with two meanings, serviceableness of, [334], 35
Words, a man's, significance of, [235], 44;
a mist of, [280], 46;
air-castles of, [156], 28;
and secrets of the soul, [308], 3;
and the soul, [563], 17;
at hand, with something to say, [87], 29;
big, not associated with good deeds, [403], 21;
bonds, [157], 19;
cheerful, from the living to the living, [171], 37;
choice of, [85], 22;
comparative insignificance of, [85], 21;
compared with thoughts, [485], 12, 16;
contentment with, [464], 29;
contrasted with deeds, [166], 4;
corruption of, [161], 42;
deeds, [330], 10;
deeds rather than, [281], 8;
definition of, called for, [57], 9;
dress of, [424], 22;
empty sound, [534], 8;
fine, and fit, [107], 10;
fine, without deeds, [106], 32;
gentle and quiet, effectiveness of, [121], 29;
good (see Good words);
hasty in, [385], 17;
immodest, unjustifiable, [183], 18;
impotency of, in sorrow, [54], 27;
in pain, [546], 44;
inadequacy of, [417], 43;
kind (see Kind words);
less expressive than actions, [3], 50;
like leaves, [463], 45;
like sunbeams, [207], 37;
magic wrought by, [281], 7;
many, involving lies, [87], 5;
men of few, [275], 45;
of breath, [28], 47;
of earnest men, [301], 36;
of great men, weight of, [133], 23;
of others to be weighed, [270], 25;
only words, [165], 23;
perfect, to be respected, [466], 1;
persuasive power of, [122], 16;
power of, [33], 38; [77], 8; [512], 37; [534], 9;
power of, over us, [339], 38;
readiness of, condition of, [512], 40;
right, value of, [161], 18;
saddest and sadder, [173], 27;
safest, [452], 21;
sense of, dependent on usage, [199], 26;
their shortcoming, [67], 18
taking, for things, [100], 31;
that are thunderbolts, [51], 2;
that live for ever, [213], 3;
that please, [534], 31;
to be few, [242], 23;
usage in, [285], 48;
vagueness in use of, [315], 38;
valuable, [469], 8;
waste of, [2], 39;
when good, [563], 18;
when ideas fail, [76], 28;
when scarce, effective, [549], 1;
without thoughts, never to heaven go, [288], 26
Wordsworth, inspiring idea of, [123], 14;
lament of, when old, [477], 32;
prayer of, [123], 35;
rank as poet, [503], 48
Work, a, how proved possible, [453], 26;
advice in regard to, [260], 21;
all, an appeal to the unseen, [304], 5;
all, religious, [303], 43;
all, to be well done, [549], 40;
all true, divine, [184], 43;
and worker, proper relation between, [201], 37;
aright, whoso would, [554], 29;
as his, a man's measure, [19], 43;
best, how done, [418], 11;
best, never done for money, [418], 12;
by arms and brains necessary, [477], 14;
diligence in, reward of, [443], 30;
effect of intelligence on, [529], 33;
every man's, born with him, [303], 51;
every noble, impossible at first, [93], 4;
for a God, [494], 22;
for all, [477], 7;
for eternity, or only for day, condition of, [563], 30;
for mere money, [493], 5;
for which one is unfit, [501], 1;
good, and good talk, conjointly impossible, [305], 22;
good, condition of, [565], 33;
good, test of, [362], 11;
great intellectual, without effort, [302], 15;
half done, [269], 20;
how it may be done, [543], 23;
how to attain expertness in, [68], 28;
how to get, done, [177], 24;
ill done, the, not our concern, [152], 45;
important factors in all, [284], 34;
in, the chief qualification, [184], 27;
and its instruments, [79], 26;
man appointed to, [33], 17;
man's best, [12], 52;
man's end, [266], 18;
man's necessity, [203], 22;
mission of man, [262], 48; [266], 18;
necessities for, [105], 51;
need of a chivalry of, as that of fighting, [308], 5;
no great, easy, [308], 19;
not left half done, [204], 28;
not under taskmaster's eye, [9], 66;
of a man, true, a second self, [540], 22;
of a strong oul, [307], 16;
of genius, test of every true, [549], 41;
of merit acknowledged at last, [25], 21;
only honoured when finished, [8], 5;
our destiny, and how it should be done, [522], 1;
our, not fruit of it, our concern, [240], 15;
our, to be work of men, [339], 42;
paid beforehand, [42], 40;
real, never paid, [304], 5;
resumption of, after a long pause, [542], 37;
solid bit of, [6], 55;
standard of, [125], 15;
tiring, [478], 20;
to be thoroughly finished, [541], 23;
transitoriness of, [499], 3;
unwise, hopefulness of, [509], 11;
versus charity, [441], 22;
victory, [549], 26;
weighty, how to do, [531], 15;
well done, effect of on worker, [206], 40;
who will not, [172], 2;
willing to, unwilling to wait, [151], 24;
with a sad heart, [478], 6;
worship, [228], 25
Worker, happiness of, [508], 38;
high and wise, Emerson on, [110], 1;
the, want of, [529], 38
Workers, and their spirit, superior to the work, [499], 3;
brave, fate of, [335], 13
Working, meaning of all, [535], 41;
too much, [492], 5;
true, worship, [500], 38
Working-day world, full of briars, [321], 1
Workman, a cunning, and his tools, [422], 23;
good, his wages, [505], 15;
good, proper reward of, [449], 42;
test of, [11], 16
Workmen, how made, [98], 31;
not superintending, effect of, [41], 24;
on the war-path, [388], 24
Works, cherished by art, [540], 3;
good, necessary for salvation, [130], 37;
good, the fruit of faith, [99], 61; 100, [12], 23;
great, due to perseverance, [135], 29;
man's, as his mind, [111], 18;
noblest, authors of, [444], 10;
our, sayings about, [339], 43, 44;
perfect, rare, and why, [346], 6;
the best, authors of, [418], 13;
worth of, in the spirit, [204], 35
World, a believing, Carlyle's faith in, and hope of, [25], 22;
a book to study, [242], 51;
a queer concern, [234], 9;
a stage, [10], 52; [167], 20;
a working, this, [445], 2;
all the, players, [498], 6;
all's right with, [128], 8;
an air-image, [482], 12;
and thought, [484], 30;
as good and as bad, [199], 22;
as it is, best, [538], 31;
as known to us, limited, [149], 16;
bad paymaster, [234], 12;
best theatre, [397], 21;
blindness of, [407], 32;
burden of, [395], 18;
but a show, [272], 6;
carrying, in thought and in fact, [201], 17;
children of, silliness of, [539], 14;
conditional, [125], 5;
different views of the, [117], 39;
down in the, [171], 23;
effect of kindness to, [176], 38;
Emerson's good-bye to, [129], 14;
envy of, [86], 17;
everything in, tangled and fleeting, [94], 30;
fact hated by, [482], 9;
fashion of, [111], 15;
first illuminated by love, [265], 7;
folly in government of, [483], 36;
for all, [92], 21;
forgetfulness of, [366], 35;
forgetting, by the world forgot, [161], 25;
friendship of, price of, [220], 6;
God of, [44], 54;
God of, always the same, [60], 26;
God's statue, [286], 30;
governed by a holy will, [506], 8;
great soul of, characterised, [431], 36;
great success of the, [431], 40;
half, and other half, [5], 5;
hampering action of, [114], 32;
heartlessness of, Chamfort on, [166], 13;
his, who can wait, [179], 38;
history, its import, [67], 13;
history of, [435], 22;
hope for the, [378], 48;
hospital, [48], 44;
hostility of, [104], 15;
how governed, [46], 30; [139], 33;
how it gets along, [179], 40;
how it is governed, [319], 30;
how it may become a home and peopled garden, [312], 34; [493], 37;
how to amend, [176], 11;
how to astonish, [177], 27;
how to enlarge one's, [210], 43;
how to learn to reverence, [464], 21;
how to mend, [461], 31;
how to please, [418], 10;
how to rule quietly, [177], 41;
how to subdue, [260], 43;
how to take, [527], 12;
how to treat, if not renounced, [52], 31;
how ruled, [112], 10;
humouring, follies from, [165], 12;
idea of, how obtained, [553], 18;
in the hand, [25], 23;
in these days, [191], 34;
insupportable, if not of God, [138], 33;
interest in a man's conflict with, [444], 1;
its two luminaries, [368], 31;
judgment of, [67], 13; [437], 22;
in one's old age, [484], 8;
knowledge of, dearly bought, [221], 13;
law of, [118], 5;
let great, spin for ever, [113], 53;
lighter than thought, [288], 23;
lights of, only temporarily obscured, [419], 81;
like a staircase, [179], 39;
literally a show, [313], 5;
madhouse, to the philosopher, [58], 10;
main enterprise of, [440], 14;
man of the, mark of, [441], 31;
master of, [143], 55;
material without the spiritual, [560], 1;
men born to command, [300], 39;
men debtor or creditor to, [345], 3;
mistake of the young soul about, [191], 34;
most finished man of, [443], 44;
necessity of knowing, [151], 27;
new, with every dawn, [109], 32;
no better seen, [64], 4;
no conformity to, when wrong, [518], 23;
"no" to the, significance of, [70], 17;
noisy inanity of, [253], 13;
not dumb to the capable, [496], 5;
not meant only for the few, [168], 5;
not ruled by blind chance, [89], 35;
not to be tutored, [457], 2;
not to be wooed for rest, [550], 30;
nothing without Greece, [326], 25;
one half, and the other, [78], 46; 332, [30], 31;
only fence against, [446], 3;
our dependence on, [330], 41;
population of, [448], 34;
promises of, [449], 37;
quarrelling with, to amuse it, [488], 34;
quicksands of, [208], 33;
rational, how to regard, [67], 1;
real sun of, [264], 20;
rhythmic order of, [111], 25;
sayings about, [67], 14-17; [464], 4-47; [465], 1-25; [482], 17-22;
scorn of, how to treat, [241], 40;
secret of, [206], 43;
selfishness of, [104], 15;
servant to him above it, [395], 29;
slave of, [143], 55;
solidarity of, instance of, [312], 15;
spiritual, not closed, [455], 2;
sign of, as still young, [111], 45;
suffrages of, how to gain, [314], 37;
system of, one, [456], 38;
the, dispensing with, [526], 8;
the forsaken of, but seemingly so, [477], 13;
the only habitable, [95], 12;
the, want of, [396], 30;
this, no home for a man, [156], 24;
this present, Carlyle on, [482], 10;
this unintelligible, [434], 21;
this working-day, [161], 20;
thorns and dangers of, [164], 34;
to a resolute man, [496], 9;
to be taken as it is, [300], 22;
to be understood, not judged, [29], 53;
to every man as to the first man, [150], 29;
to know, [493], 43;
to the child and to the grown man, [140], 8;
to the Hindu, [496], 7;
to the liberal, [496], 23;
to the wise man in retreat, [151], 37;
too much respect to, [566], 16;
tragic embarras, [462], 16;
two ways of rising in, [468], 4;
under power of a lie, [546], 11;
unseen, alone real, [313], 5;
wags, [162], 40;
wax, to a firm will, [151], 8;
we live in, [525], 22, 23;
weary, [208], 46;
web of, [53], 39; [462], 1;
who looks, in the face, [144], 24;
whole, not deceived or deceiving, [306], 4;
wide, for wandering in, [217], 24;
wishes to be deceived, [286], 32;
without and within, relation of, [75], 8;
working, necessity of being regimented, [565], 35;
worshipped or despised, [147], 32;
would be deceived, [63], 25
World's, ills, to run away from, [495], 23;
joy, [478], 21;
masters, [170], 24;
reward, the, [506], 16;
sovereigns, Byron on, [529], 41;
the, mine oyster, [555], 31;
work, by whom forwarded, [418], 36
World-epoch, great event in, [186], 32
World-revolutions, great, far-reaching effects of, [431], 43
World-spirit, the, [465], 13
World-traveller, a, [458], 18
Worldly people and their riches, [461], 18
Worlds, imagined new, [75], 2
Worm, no god dare wrong, [103], 48
Worries, who has no, makes worries, [42], 11
Worry, not work, killing, [204], 45
Worse, appear the better reason, [33], 2
Worship, easier than obedience, [201], 20;
its beginning, [187], 16;
no true, now-a-days, [275], 41;
significance of, [441], 3
Worst, the, we can see, [568], 3;
things at the, [546], 12;
when not at the, [552], 1
Worth, a thing's, measure of, [21], 36;
all, in man, [312], 35;
definition of, [94], 38;
determining element in, [313], 24;
felt by loss, [30], 10; [42], 48;
hidden, worthless, [343], 44;
how determined, [486], 1;

irrespective of looks, [112], 37;
known after loss, [539], 30;
man's, how rated, [330], 31;
man's, measure of, [533], 30;
man's reverence for, [389], 41;
man's, test of, [545], 30;
measure of, [212], 3;
of thing, test of, [519], 19;
or unworth, what determines, [533], 34;
real, [369], 17, 18;
revealed by life, [488], 16;
sterling, mark of, [226], 33;
substantial, before ornament, [106], 47;
test of, [482], 26;
the achievement of, [17], 39;
to be distinguished from unworth, [290], 30;
undying, [308], 6;
who can recognise, [335], 14
Worthless, always worthless, [25], 26;
man, a, defined, [59], 1
Worthy, men, at odds, the blame, [546], 46;
people, a misfortune of, [505], 18
Would and shall compared, [497], 31;
and should, compared, [497], 31;
must yield to can, [42], 14
"Would" and "should" contrasted, [414], 28
Wound always leaves a scar, [25], 28; [88], 17
Wrath, as dealt by God, [125], 25;
nursing her, [118], 58;
sun not to set upon, [242], 22
Wreath easier to find than find wearer, [79], 21
Wreck, a beacon, [25], 29;
of life, secret of, [520], 36
Wren, the poor, pluck of, [448], 26
Wren's monument, [390], 23
Wrestling, strength from, [149], 9
Wretch, concentred all in self, [62], 28
Wretched, comfort to, [73], 49; [397], 7;
in heart, unhelpful, [305], 7;
learned to succour, [141], 27;
presence of, to happy, [449], 8;
regard for, a duty, [87], 9;
the most, [239], 21;
weakness of the, [87], 13
Wretchedness, from fancy, [298], 42;
intentional, impious, [143], 30;
must complain, [25], 30;
source of, [303], 11;
that is voiceless, [415], 20;
to be pitied by man, [30], 32
Write, how to, [364], 10;
rule for one who intends to, [333], 48;
where to learn to, [177], 38
Writer, best part of, [413], 30;
book for a, [252], 56;
good, mark of, [91], 11;
good, rare, [6], 52;
great, mark of, [7], 10;
original, and the taste to appreciate him, [91], 13;
sure of many readers 441, 23;
wise, [25], 2
Writers, all great, writers of history, [91], 20;
all immortal, source of inspiration of, [9], 45;
clear and turbid, [43], 57;
great, and their words, [135], 30;
who have genius, [504], 5
Writing, advantage of, [369], 9;
art of, secret of, [53], 9;
benefit to few, [469], 6;
clear, condition of, [554], 30;
condition of, [305], 23;
ease in, how acquired, [499], 45
easy, Sheridan on, [568], 6;
fine, the root of, [452], 10;
for eternity, hard, [161], 28;
for money, [302], 54;
friends, delay in, [21], 28;
good, allegorical, [130], 38;
good, condition of, [506], 4;
good, source of, [383], 27;
insincere, [503], 19;
itch for, [412], 27;
master of, [93], 56;
men, soul of all worth in, [189], 27;
of fools, harmful, [540], 35;
passion for, [383], 29;
plainest, in dusk, [190], 27;
rule in, to the public, [11], 55;
rules for, [297], 17-19;
slovenly, uncourteous, [394], 10;
styles of, [456], 3;
ultimate rule in, [459], 30;
well, and writing readily, [192], 37;
well, merit of, [324], 43;
well, requisites for, [497], 8;
without purpose, [244], 10
Writings, ancient, folly of controversy about, [508], 33
Written, what is, remains, [184], 4;
worthless, so long as dead, [535], 19
Wrong, and God, [3], 55;
and the law, [3], 56;
as regards right, [6], 3;
avengement of, [331], 20;
by rule and by caprice, [200], 20;
difficult to avoid, [86], 9;
doing, a disgrace, [319], 19;
forgetting of, a revenge, [112], 22;
going, always harmful, [381], 51;
going, and turning back, [201], 16;
going, result of, [545], 6;
in the place of truth, [501], 34;
instruction from finding we are, [476], 22;
knowledge of, dispensable, [171], 20;
matter of consciousness, never right, [325], 17;
possible to be, [165], 14;
suffering and paying for, [202], 19;
to know, the first essential thing, [445], 36;
to one threatening to many, [286], 13;
with many, [29], 57
Wrongs, little, [251], 45
Wrong-doer never pardons, [112], 27
Wrong-doing punished on earth, [8], 61
Y
Yea, the everlasting, [256], 3
Years, a man's, counting, [523], 30
"Yes" to be deliberate, [337], 1
Yesterday and to-morrow, both are, [422], 31
Yielding commended, [37], 32, 34
Yoke, an easy, [288], 27
Young, idea, to teach, [57], 51;
in age, advantage of being, [490], 38;
in youth happy, [124], 38;
man, best rules for, [417], 57;
man, growing virtue of, [428], 13;
man's life, happiness and virtue of, [425], 18;
men, and their command in affairs, [297], 8;
men, conservativeness in, a bad sign, [524], 1;
men, errors of, [425], 29;
men, glory of, [430], 14;
men, love for, [122], 46;
men, our, [340], 3;
men, Professor Blackie to, [295], 13;
men, task of, [214], 46;
men, the conceit of, [305], 24;
talk of, [238], 39;
the, Goethe's tolerance with, [411], 37;
to be dealt gently with, [169], 21;
what it is to be, [491], 4
Younger, the wish to be, [307], 48
Youth, a lesson to teach, [508], 40;
ambitious schemes of, at mid-age, [466], 2;
and age, respective liveries of, [112], 5;
and hope, [225], 38;
and its knowledge of world, [203], 47;
and old age, as regards impressibility, [227], 9;
and wine, [556], 36;
as evil time, rather than age, [200], 31;
beautiful, [160], 50;
bridge from, to manhood, [300], 28;
characteristics of, [22], 33;
conceit in, misery of, [560], 23;
conceit of, [93], 7;
confidence of, [190], 19;
contractedness, of, [140], 9;
dalliance, evil of, [177], 2;
education of, [95], 20;
eternal, how attained, [95], 39;
excesses of, [426], 20;
failing of, [216], 46;
first impressions of, indelible, [242], 4;
flower of, when most beautiful, [429], 2;
follies of, to be unlearned in manhood, [482], 33;
foolhardiness in, [48], 62;
grief in, [192], 41;
hard to restrain, [321], 7;
heedfulness in, commended, [243], 5;
home-keeping, [158], 36;
importance of training, [378], 30;
in love, Ruskin's advice to, [542], 38;
incomplete, [544], 47;
incontinence in, effect of, [195], 24;
inspiration of, [23], 41;
learning to be a man, [466], 14;
not necessarily inexperienced, [12], 42;
penalty of, liberty to, [260], 44;
perils of, [419], 25;
pliability and obstinacy of, [38], 25;
profession of, naturalness in, [270], 8;
reckless, [370], 27;
responsibility of, [423], 13;
roses of, [382], 14;
temper of, [362], 1;
the guide of, [60], 23;
the more it is wasted, [419], 22;
thoughts of, [419], 7; [457], 38;
thrift in, [213], 2;
time to learn, [178], 28;
to be modest, [4], 41; [56], 34;
to be respected, [271], 17;
to be saving, [225], 37;
to be used as a springtime, [509], 40;
too covetous of honour, [288], 43;
virtuous, happy season of, [140], 24;
wandering in his own way, [165], 9;
weakness of, [199], 51;
what he strives for, [60], 24;
wisdom and beauty in, rare, [192], 39;
without enthusiasm, [304], 3;
yearning for, [395], 2
Youthful impressions, Goethe on, [460], 38
Z
Zeal, a, commended, [384], 49;
blind, [30], 57, 59;
not to outrun charity, [296], 42;
religious, effects of, [372], 37
Zeus, dice of, [326], 34

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