Chapter V (7)

=You must either be directed by some that take upon them to know, or take upon yourself that which I am sure you do not know, or jump the after-inquiry on your own peril.= _Cymbeline_, v. 4.

=You must get your living by loving, else your life is at least half a failure.= _Thoreau._

=You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.= _Sen._

=You must live the life.= _Lawrence Oliphant._

=You must lose a fly to catch a trout.= _Pr._ 10

=You must not equivocate, nor speak anything positively for which you have no authority but report, or conjecture, or opinion.= _Judge Hale._

=You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.= _Napoleon._

=You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.= _Napoleon._

=You must not measure every man's corn by your own bushel.= _Pr._

=You must not suppose that everything goes= 15 =right at first even with the best of us.= _Mrs. Gatty._

=You must not think / That we are made of stuff so flat and dull, / That we can let our beard be shook with danger, / And think it pastime.= _Ham._, iv. 7.

=You must rouse in men a consciousness of their own prudence and strength, if you would raise their character.= _Vauvenargues._

=You must seek and find God in the heart.= _Jean Paul._

=You need not tell all the truth, unless to those who have a right to know it all. But let all you tell be truth.= _Horace Mann._

=You never can elude the gods when you even= 20 =devise wrong.= _Thales._

=You never long the greatest man to be; / No! all you say is; "I'm as good as he." / He's the most envious man beneath the sun / Who thinks that he's as good as every one.= _Goethe._

=You never will love art well till you love what she mirrors better.= _Ruskin._

=You often understand the true connection of important events in your life not while they are going on, nor soon after they are past, but only a considerable time afterwards.= _Schopenhauer._

=You ought to read books, as you take medicine, by advice, and not advertisement.= _Ruskin._

=You rub the sore, when you should bring the= 25 =plaster.= _Tempest_, ii. 1.

=You said your say; / Mine answer was my deed.= _Tennyson._

=You see when they row in a barge, they that do drudgery work, slash, and puff, and sweat; but he that governs sits quietly at the stern, and scarce is seen to stir.= _Selden._

=You shall never take a woman without her answer, unless you take her without her tongue.= _As You Like It_, iv. 1.

=You shall not shirk the hobbling Times to catch a ride on the sure-footed Eternities. "The times= (as Carlyle says) =are bad; very well, you are there to make them better."= _John Burroughs._

=You take my house, when you do take the= 30 =prop / That doth sustain my house; you take my life / When you do take the means whereby I live.= _Mer. of Ven._, iv. 1.

=You that choose not by the view, / Choose as fair, and choose as true.= _Mer. of Ven._, iii. 2.

=You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man; a contented mind confers it on all.= _Hor._

=You watch figures in the fields, digging and delving with spade or pick. You see one of them from time to time straightening his loins, and wiping his face with the back of his hand.... It is there that for me you must seek true humanity and great poetry.= _Millet._

=You were used / To say, extremity was the trier of spirits; / That common chances common men could bear; / That when the sea was calm, all boats alike / Showed mastership in floating.= _Coriolanus_, iv. 1.

=You who are ashamed of your poverty, and= 35 =blush for your calling, are a snob; as are you who boast of your pedigree, or are proud of your wealth.= _Thackeray._

=You who follow wealth and power with unremitting ardour, / The more in this you look for bliss, you leave your view the farther.= _Burns._

=You who forget your friends, meanly to follow after those of a higher degree, are a snob.= _Thackeray._

=You will as often find a great man above, as below, his reputation, when once you come to know him.= _Goethe._

=You will catch more flies with a spoonful of honey than with a cask of vinegar.= _Eastern Pr._

=You will find angling to be like the virtue of= 40 =humility, which has a calmness of spirit and a world of other blessings attending upon it.= _Izaac Walton._

=You will find rest unto your souls when first you take on you the yoke of Christ, but joy only when you have borne it as long as He wills.= _Ruskin._

=You will find that most books worth reading once are worth reading twice.= _John Morley._

=You will find that silence, or very gentle words, are the most exquisite revenge for reproaches.= _Judge Hale._

=You will get more profit from trying to find where beauty is, than in anxiously inquiring what it is. Once for all, it remains undemonstrable; it appears to us, as in a dream, when we behold the works of the great poets and painters; and in short, of all feeling artists; it is a hovering, shining, shadowy form, the outline of which no definition holds.= _Goethe._

=You will never live to my age, without you keep yourselves in breath with exercise, and in heart with joyfulness.= _Sir P. Sidney._

=You will never miss the right way if you only act according to your feelings and conscience.= _Goethe._

=You will never see anything worse than yourselves.= _Anon._

=You wise, / To call him shamed, who is but overthrown?= _Tennyson._

=You wish, O woman, to be ardently loved, and= 5 =for ever, even until death, be thou the mother of your children.= _Jean Paul._

=You write with ease to show your breeding, / But easy writing's cursed hard reading.= _Sheridan._

=You'll repent if you marry, and you'll repent if you don't.= _Old saying._

=Young authors give their brains much exercise and little food.= _Joubert._

=Young Christians think themselves little; growing Christians think themselves nothing; full-grown Christians think themselves less than nothing.= _John Newton._

=Young folk, silly folk; old folk, cold folk.= 10 _Dut. Pr._

=Young hot colts, being raged, do rage the more.= _Rich. II._, ii. 1.

=Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are to think themselves sober enough.= _Chesterfield._

=Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and fitter for new projects than for settled business.= _Bacon._

=Young men soon give, and soon forget affronts; old age is slow in both.= _Addison._

=Young men think that old men are fools; but= 15 =old men know young men are fools.= _Chapman._

=Young people are quick enough to observe and imitate.= (?)

=Your acts are detectives, keener and more unerring than ever the hand of sensational novelist depicted; they will dog you from the day you sinned till the hour your trial comes off.= _Disraeli to young men._

=Your born angler is like a hound that scents no game but that which he is in pursuit of.= _John Burroughs._

=Your cause belongs / To him who can avenge your wrongs.= _Winkworth._

=Your goodness must have some edge to it,= 20 =else it is none.= _Emerson._

=Your hands in your own pockets in the morning, is the beginning of the last day; your hands in other people's pockets at noon, is the height of the last day.= _Ruskin._

=Your "if" is the only peacemaker; much virtue in "if."= _As You Like It_, v. 4.

=Your labour only may be sold; your soul must not.= _Ruskin._

=Your learning, like the lunar beam, affords light but not heat.= _Young._

=Your levellers wish to level down as far as= 25 =themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.= _J. Boswell._

=Your noblest natures are most credulous.= _Chapman._

=Your own soul is the thing you ought to look after.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=Your own words and actions are the only things you will be called to account for.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=Your prime one need is to do right, under whatever compulsion, till you can do it without compulsion. And then you are a Man.= _Ruskin._

=Your tongue runs before your wit.= _Swift._ 30

=Your rusty kettle will continue to boil your water for you if you don't try to mend it. Begin tinkering and there is an end of your kettle.= _Carlyle._

=Your voiceless lips, O flowers, are living preachers,--each cup a pulpit, and each leaf a book.= _Horace Smith._

=Your words are like notes of dying swans--/ Too sweet to last.= _Dryden._

=You're always sure to detect / A sham in the things folks most affect.= _Bret Harte._

=Yours is a pauper's soul, a rich man's pelf: /= 35 =Rich to your heirs, a pauper to yourself.= _Lucillius._

=Youth, abundant wealth, high birth, and inexperience, are, each of them, the source of ruin. What then must be the fate of him in whom all four are combined?= _Hitopadesa._

=Youth beholds happiness gleaming in the prospect. Age looks back on the happiness of youth, and, instead of hopes, seeks its enjoyment in the recollection of hope.= _Coleridge._

=Youth, enthusiasm, and tenderness are like the days of spring. Instead of complaining, O my heart, of their brief duration, try to enjoy them.= _Rückert._

=Youth ever thinks that good whose goodness or evil he sees not.= _Sir P. Sidney._

=Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship= 40 =fall; a mother's secret hope outlives them all!= _Holmes._

=Youth holds no society with grief.= _Euripides._

=Youth is a blunder; manhood, a struggle; old age, a regret.= _Disraeli._

=Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.= _Aaron Hill._

=Youth is ever confiding; and we can almost forgive its disinclination to follow the counsels of age, for the sake of the generous disdain with which it rejects suspicion.= _W. H. Harrison._

=Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; /= 45 =Youth is nimble, age is lame: / Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; / Youth is wild, and age is tame.= _Shakespeare._

=Youth is not rich in time; it may be, poor; part with it, as with money, sparing; pay no moment but in purchase of its worth; and what its worth ask death-beds, they can tell.= _Young._

=Youth is not the age of pleasure; we then expect too much, and we are therefore exposed to daily disappointments and mortifications. When we are a little older, and have brought down our wishes to our experience, then we become calm and begin to enjoy ourselves.= _Lord Liverpool._

=Youth is the season of credulity.= _Chatham._

=Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favourable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty. Life culminates at sixty.= _Bovee._

=Youth may make / Even with the year; but age, if it will hit, / Shoots a bow short, and lessens still his stake, / As the day lessens, and his life with it.= _George Herbert._

=Youth never yet lost its modesty where age had not lost its honour; nor did childhood ever refuse its reverence, except where age had forgotten correction.= _Ruskin._

=Youth no less becomes / The light and careless livery that it wears, / Than settled age his sables and his weeds, / Importing health and graveness.= _Ham._, iv. 7.

=Youth should be a savings-bank.= _Mme. Swetchine._

=Youth to itself rebels, though none else near.= 5 _Ham._, i. 3.

=Youth would rather be stimulated than instructed.= _Goethe._

=Youth, when thought is speech and speech is truth.= _Scott._

=Youth will never live to age, without they keep themselves in breath with exercise, and in heart with joyfulness. Too much thinking doth consume the spirits; and oft it falls out, that while one thinks too much of doing, he leaves to do the effect of his thinking.= _Sir P. Sidney._

=Youthful failing is not to be admired except in so far as one may hope that it will not be the failing of old age.= _Goethe._

Z.

=Zahltag kommt alle Tag=--Pay-day comes every 10 day. _Ger. Pr._

=Zankt, wenn ihr sitzt beim Weine, / Nicht um Kaisers Bart=--Wrangle not over your winecups about trifles (_lit._ about the Emperor's beard). _Geibel._

=Zeal ever follows an appearance of truth, and the assured are too apt to be warm; but it is their weak side in argument, zeal being better shown against sin than persons, or their mistakes.= _William Penn._

=Zeal for uniformity attests the latent distrusts, not the firm convictions, of the zealot. In proportion to the strength of our self-reliance is our indifference to the multiplication of suffrages in favour of our own judgment.= _Sir J. Stephen._

=Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.= _Tillotson._

=Zeal is like fire; it needs both feeding and= 15 =watching.= _Pr._

=Zeal is no further commendable than as it is attended with knowledge.= _T. Wilson._

=Zeal is very blind or badly regulated when it encroaches upon the rights of others.= _Pasquier Quesnel._

=Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse.= _Pr._

=Zeal without knowledge is like expedition to a man in the dark.= _Newton._

=Zeit ist's, die Unfälle zu beweinen, / Wenn sie= 20 =nahen und wirklich erscheinen=--It is time enough to bewail misfortunes when they come and actually happen. _Schiller._

=Zeit verdeckt und entdeckt=--Time covers and uncovers everything. _Ger. Pr._

=Zeitungsschreiber: ein Mensch, der seinen Beruf verfehlt hat=--A journalist, a man who has mistaken his calling. _Bismarck._

=Zerstreuung ist wie eine goldene Wolke, die den Menschen, / Wär es auch nur auf kurze Zeit, seinem Elend entrückt=--Amusement is as a golden cloud, which, though but for a little, diverts man from his misery. _Goethe._

=Zerstörend ist des Lebens Lauf, / Stets frisst ein Thier das andre auf=--Destructive is the course of life; ever one animal eats up another. _Bodenstedt._

=Zerstreutes Wesen führt uns nicht zum Ziel=--A 25 distracted existence leads us to no goal. _Goethe._

=Zeus hates busybodies and those who do too much.= _Euripides._

=Zielen ist nicht genug; es gilt Treffen=--To aim is not enough; you must hit. _Ger. Pr._

=Zonam perdidit=--He has lost his purse (_lit._ his girdle). _Hor._

=Zu leben weiss ich, mich zu kennen weiss ich nicht=--How to live I know, how to know myself I know not. _Goethe._

=Zu Rom bestehen die 10 Gebote aus den 10= 30 =Buchstaben=; / _Da pecuniam_--=gieb Gelder=--At Rome the Ten Commandments consist of ten letters--_Da pecuniam_--Give money. _C. J. Weber._

=Zu schwer bezahlt man oft ein leicht Versehn=--One often smarts pretty sharply for a slight mistake. _Goethe._

=Zu viel Demuth ist Hochmuth=--Too much humility is pride. _Ger. Pr._

=Zu viel Glück ist Unglück=--Too much good luck is ill luck. _Ger. Pr._

=Zu viel Weisheit ist Narrheit=--Too much wisdom is folly. _Ger. Pr._

=Zu viel Wissbegierde ist ein Fehler, und aus= 35 =einem Fehler können alle Laster entspringen, wenn man ihm zu sehr nachhängt=--Too much curiosity is a fault; and out of one fault all vices may spring, when one indulges in it too much. _Lessing._

=Zufrieden sein, das ist mein Spruch=--Contentment is my motto. _M. Claudius._

=Zum Kriegführen sind dreierlei Dinge nötig--Geld! Geld! Geld!=--To carry on war three kinds of things are necessary--Money! money! money! _The German Imperial commandant, Lazarus von Schwendi, in_ 1584.

=Zum Leiden bin ich auserkoren=--To suffer am I elected. _Schikaneder-Mozart._

=Zur Tugend der Ahnen / Ermannt sich der Held=--The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors. _Goethe._

=Zwar eine schöne Tugend ist die Treue, / Doch= 40 =schöner ist Gerechtigkeit=--Fidelity indeed is a noble virtue, yet justice is nobler still. _Platen._

=Zwar nicht wissen--aber glauben / Heisst ganz richtig--Aberglauben=--Not to know, but to believe, what else is it, strictly speaking, but superstition? _Franz v. Schönthan._

=Zwar sind sie an das Beste nicht gewöhnt, / Allein sie haben schrecklich viel gelesen=--It is true they (the public) are not accustomed to the best, but they have read a frightful deal (and are so knowing therefore). _Goethe, the theatre manager in "Faust."_

=Zwar weiss ich viel, doch möcht' ich alles wissen=--True, I know much, but I would like to know everything. _Goethe, "Faust."_

=Zwei Fliegen mit einer Klappe schlagen=--To kill two flies with one flapper; to kill two birds with one stone. _Ger. Pr._

=Zwei gute Tage hat der Mensch auf Erden; / Den Hochzeitstag und das Begrabenwerden=--Man has two gala-days on earth--his marriage-day and his funeral-day. _Ger. Pr._

=Zwei Seelen und ein Gedanke, / Zwei Herzen und ein Schlag=--Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse. _Halen._

=Zwei Seelen wohnen, ach! in meiner Brust, /= 5 =Die eine will sich von der andern trennen=--Two souls, alas! dwell in my breast; the one struggles to separate itself from the other. _Goethe, "Faust."_

=Zwei sind der Wege, auf welchen der Mensch zur Tugend emporstrebt, / Schliesst sich der eine dir zu, thut sich der andre dir auf, / Handelnd erreicht der Glückliche sie, der Leidende duldend; / Wohl ihm, den sein Geschick liebend auf beiden geführt=--There are two roads on which man strives to virtue; one closes against thee, the other opens to thee; the favoured man wins his way by acting, the unfortunate by endurance; happy he whom his destiny guides him lovingly on both. _Schiller._

=Zweierlei Arten giebt es, die treffende Wahrheit zu sagen; / Oeffentlich immer dem Volk, immer dem Fürsten geheim=--There are two ways of telling the pertinent truth--publicly always to the people, always to the prince in private. _Goethe._

=Zwischen Amboss und Hammer=--Between the anvil and the hammer. _Ger. Pr._

=Zwischen heut' und morgen sind Grüfte, zwischen Versprechen und Erfüllen Klüfte=--Between to-day and to-morrow are graves, and between promising and fulfilling are chasms. _Rückert._

=Zwischen Lipp' und Kelchesrand / Schwebt= 10 =der dunkeln Mächte Hand=--Between cup and lip hovers the hand of the dark powers. _F. Kind._

=Zwischen uns sei Wahrheit=--Let there be truth between us. _Goethe._

INDEX.

⁂ _The first number refers to the page, the second to
the number of the quotation on the page._

A.

=Aaron=, in absence of Moses, 532, 4

=Abasement= and elevation, 471, 6

=Abbot=, who burnt his fingers, 322, 27

=Abiding=, blessedness of, 30, 50

=Abilities=, natural, and culture, 290, 13;
like natural plants, 290, 12

=Ability=, combined with experience, 383, 37;
contentment with one's, 199, 49;
dependent on activity, 443, 27;
dependent on will, 37, 56;
everything in art, 60, 9;
how to know one's, 507, 49;
superior, use of, 407, 2;
the height of, 434, 24;
trying to surpass one's, 497, 18;
why conjoined with poverty, 451, 3

=Able= man, described, 7, 19;
importance of finding and installing, 106, 22; 427, 38;
men, why not rich, 451, 3

=Abode=, man's, in the future, 415, 27

=Above=, things, nothing to us, 361, 15;
those, have ends, 479, 30

=Absent=, an ideal person, 415, 28

=Absenteeism=, moral, 521, 41

=Abstract= terms, emptiness of, 161, 45

=Abstractions=, lofty, _versus_ complexities at hand, 240, 3

=Absurd= man, the, 223, 20

=Absurdity=, no, without its champion, 89, 51;
some slow in discerning, 181, 16

=Abundance=, effect of, on reason, 199, 2;
love of, 147, 54

=Abuse=, as against use, 1, 4; 2, 31;
no argument against use, 95, 43, 44;
provocative of abuse, 47, 41;
what is unsusceptible of, 534, 27

=Abuses=, as matter of sport, 260, 33

=Accent=, a pervading country, 469, 29

=Accessible=, discrimination of, from inaccessible, 471, 34

=Accidents=, behaviour under all, 243, 39;
rare, pleasure in, 316, 22

=Accommodation=, mutual, law of the world, 548, 5

=Accord=, perfect, with whom alone possible, 305, 39

=Accusing= spirit, and the oath, 415, 31

=Acheron=, greedy, 88, 21

=Achieved=, the, to him who looks forward, 55, 7

=Achievement=, exulting in, 473, 42

=Achievements=, greatest, first reception of, 432, 4

=Achilles=, the great, see, 207, 44

=Acknowledgment=, exacting a grateful, 426, 16

=Acquaintance=, large, wasteful of time, 175, 42

=Acquaintances= and friends, 268, 34

=Acquaintanceship=, expecting happiness from, 148, 11

=Acquirement=, every fresh, value of, 90, 56

=Acquisition=, unjust, 507, 40

=Acquisitions=, new, a burden, 297, 24

=Act=, an immortal seed grain, 36, 39;
who does not, dead, 551, 10

=Acting= according to thought, difficult, 489, 28

=Action=, a great source of, 362, 41;
a rule of, 546, 33;
a seed of circumstances, 163, 14;
all vital, unconscious, 184, 44;
an unwarrantable, 412, 53;
and thought, the worlds of, 465, 8;
best and only correct, 418, 3;
civil, second to doing a good, 297, 41;
contrasted with narrative, 289, 39;
contrasted with thought, 61, 25;
delayed, swallowed up by time, 486, 36;
dependent on will, 474, 37;
dumb, 55, 9;
effect of, as contrasted with thought, 485, 41;
effect of, on time, 349, 29;
every, measure of, 89, 52;
good, dependence of, on good cheer, 126, 35;
good, power of, 75, 7;
great, the effect on us of, 21, 47;
greater than sentiment, 91, 52;
hasty, contrasted with long pondering, 229, 34;
healthy, 153, 38;
how to test, 149, 47;
in, chief qualification, 184, 27;
involuntary, 3, 57, 58;
not thought, end of man, 425, 12;
our fairest, 427, 4;
our spontaneous, 339, 22;
power of, 224, 30;
real, the element of, 369, 11;
rectitude of, and intention, 370, 34;
relation of, to thought, 58, 37; 484, 47;
rule for, 114, 44;
rule of, 274, 45;
sole basis of, 205, 21;
spirit of, everything, 454, 32;
tendency of, 174, 5;
to be with decision, 57, 45;
true rule of, 92, 29;
virtue in, 334, 44;
voluntary, 38, 22;
worth of, dependent on motive, 163, 7, 10

=Actions=, brilliant, often matter of shame, 529, 1;
effect on us of our, 227, 22;
good, effect of, 128, 49;
good, in secret, 128, 48;
great, crowned, 133, 6;
great, eloquence, 434, 14;
how measured by wise men and fools, 108, 55;
more significant than words, 493, 41;
not to be hastily judged, 277, 21;
our epochs, 481, 20;
the importance of, 486, 1;
words, 562, 4;
wrong, apologies for, 377, 12

=Activity=, a noble and courageous, security of, 93, 52;
effect of, on the soul, 400, 5;
life without scope for, 205, 42;
man's, ever ready to relax, 266, 26;
reconciling effect of, 84, 39;
sole source of cheerfulness, 415, 6;
transforming power of, 66, 26;
undisciplined, hopelessness of, 505, 45;
without insight, 476, 7

=Actor=, might instruct a parson, 79, 20;
well-graced, interest in, 19, 33

=Acts=, great success of, due to fortune, 82, 32;
great, great thoughts in practice, 135, 21;
great, origin of, 133, 2;
illustrious, inspiring, 182, 18;
individual, not to be judged, 114, 13;
men's, detectives, 568, 17;
our, our angels, 337, 5

=Actual=, all from great mystic deep, 395, 24;
in relation to ideal, 395, 9;
the ideal, 415, 33

=Adaptation=, a sovereign rule, 387, 29

=Address=, value of, to boy, 122, 47

=Adieu=, a sweet, 395, 27

=Administer=, ability to, 93, 36

=Admiration=, and imitation, step between, 470, 5;
and love, 525, 34;
as a feeling, 305, 33;
contrasted with love, 63, 54;
elevating power of, 316, 34; 443, 25;
power of true, 460, 28;
the power of, 525, 20, 21;
unwise, contrasted with unwise contempt, 325, 21

=Admonition=, not readily forgiven, 274, 18

=Adore=, man to, not to question, 263, 36

=Adulation=, attendant on wealth, 259, 16;
the evil of, 104, 7;
to people and to kings, 107, 24

=Advance=, who does not, 364, 19

=Advanced=, age, a symbol of, 524, 26;
man, unhappy, 261, 19;
thinker, self-satisfaction of, 513, 32

=Advancing= in life, 490, 27

=Advantage=, or disadvantage, as motives, 202, 38;
to be taken, 209, 24;
price of, 9, 5

=Adverbs=, significance of, 126, 46

=Adventure=, commended, 217, 24;
for story's sake, 165, 39

=Adventurers=, good done by, 38, 38

=Adventures=, possible in life, 533, 26

=Adversaries=, merits of, how to treat, 85, 36

=Adversities=, how alone to overcome, 446, 9

=Adversity=, a school, 472, 30;
as a test, 97, 48;
as a teacher, 22, 46;
behaviour in, 89, 11;
brave spirit in, 2, 8;
compared with prosperity, 221, 48; 358, 22, 24, 26, 27;
contrary effects of, 438, 43;
effect of, on a man, 512, 23;
enlightening power of, 559, 25;
heroic endurance of, 145, 34;
man struggling with, and his deliverer, 432, 26;
more bearable than prosperity, 110, 33;
more tolerable than contempt, 268, 47;
rule for, 189, 22;
temper for, 5, 13;
test of strength, 177, 53; 175, 13;
use of, 408, 20;
virtue of, 460, 42;
what it brings to light, 215, 34

=Advice=, bad, 261, 32, 33;
best, 417, 32;
common motive in asking, 284, 32, 33;
giving and taking, 524, 13;
giving, and the wisdom to profit by it, 524, 12;
gude, seasonable, 137, 9;
medical, 300, 35;
men liberal with, 330, 13;
motive for asking, 522, 29;
of those who are well, 98, 46; 179, 5;
person to give, 335, 15;
rule in giving, 368, 19; 384, 11;
to be followed, if good, 172, 10;
unacceptable, 161, 34;
wanted and not wanted, 415, 34

=Advisement=, good, good, 320, 34

=Adviser=, to conceal his superiority, 61, 18

=Advising=, 368, 20, 21

=Advocate=, trade of, Carlyle on, 403, 20

=Afar=, the, 445, 12

=Affairs=, change of, change of men, 295, 46

=Affectation=, a confession, 489, 31;
essence of, 425, 31;
in style, 323, 29

=Affection=, display of, to be distrusted, 547, 30;
due to man, 58, 41;
effect of absence on, 2, 12;
entire, characteristic of, 83, 43;
great, and deep veneration, incompatible, 201, 8;
private, effect of, on judgment, 357, 7;
profound, characteristic of, 339, 34;
selfishly sought after, 177, 14;
tragic effects of wounded, 138, 36;
true, described, 507, 36;
value of, 420, 15

=Affections=, holy, the band of, 40, 40;
how won, 105, 15; 330, 37;
our, characteristic of, 337, 7;
our greatest tyrants, 324, 40;
the proper objects of, 387, 47;
to be moderated, 56, 31;
without a tap-root, 566, 13

=Affinities=, spiritual, as a bond, 166, 17

=Affirmation= before denial, 243, 35

=Affirmatives=, wanted, 71, 37

=Afflicted=, the, of God, helplessness of, 45, 3; 531, 36

=Affliction=, weakness of being daunted by, 542, 40

=Agamemnon=, brave men before, 517, 7

=Age=, and youth, characteristics of, 53, 26;
a thought to present to, 508, 40;
as a teacher, 21, 14;
compared with youth, 568, 37, 45, 49; 469, 2;
crabbed, and youth, 49, 30;
distrustful, 37, 16;
effect of, on our views of life, 444, 36;
emancipation from one's, impossible, 303, 20;
every, has its characteristics, 39, 52;
glory of, 430, 11;
golden, whither fled, 64, 27;
in man and in woman, 124, 15;
of gold, the true, 23, 31;
old, bashfulness in, 25, 61;
our, characterised, 337, 9, 10;
present, characterised, 525, 25;
surest sign of, 456, 27;
the function of, 60, 23;
the riddle of, how to be solved, 451, 34;
the self-satisfaction of, 186, 30;
this, chief curse of, 420, 6;
weakening effect of, 328, 11;
without brains, 341, 16

=Agencies= to be economised, 117, 4

=Ages=, great, characteristic of, 10, 43;
the, and the hours, 435, 35

=Agnosticism= of doubt, and that of devotion, 415, 43

=Agreeable=, art of being, 458, 34;
condition of being, 474, 28;
to be, every one's duty, 90, 13

=Agreement=, an indifferent, commended, 15, 38

=Agriculture=, advantages of, 329, 8;
occupation in, 411, 15

=Aid= at call, 482, 11

=Aim=, a lower, secured by devotion to a higher, 415, 26;
to, not enough, 569, 27

=Alacrity= in sinking, 166, 32

=Alarm=, who sounds, safe, 83, 29

=Alchemists=, discoveries of, 415, 49

=Alchemy=, 18, 29

=Alcohol=, pure, the thing wanted, 534, 14

=Alexander= the Great at the tomb of Achilles, 320, 26;
Juvenal on, 509, 4;
his tomb, 400, 18

=All=, co-operation with, 314, 28;
for man's good, 111, 34;
forsaking, finding all, 323, 33;
how one whole, 488, 11;
in flux, 10, 54;
in nothing, 185, 53;
the, incomprehensibility of, 141, 33;
the law and all the prophets, 220, 5;
reflex of, in every man, 92, 35;
things from above, 328, 9;
things, how to subject, 563, 32;
things of same stuff, 328, 7;
to be found in No, 319, 22

=Allegiance=, to fallen lord, merit of, 145, 34

=Allegory=, a transparent palace, 222, 5

=Alliance= with a powerful man, 318, 49

=Alliteration=, 17, 10

=Allotted=, the, and the non-allotted, 536, 39;
what is, and what is not, 414, 41

=Alms=, a rule in, 184, 46;
giving, but not thought, 492, 40;
to go before, 243, 14

=Almsgiving=, 305, 48

=Alms-people=, Ruskin's, 287, 38

=Alone=, doubly, 544, 28;
the word, 564, 34

=Alphonso= of Castile, saying of, 327, 30

=Altitude= to unpractised eye, 496, 36

=Amateur=, not to be discouraged, 416, 3

=Ambassador=, Wotton's definition of, 14, 18

=Ambition=, a dream, 73, 3;
a noble, 470, 13;
a shadow's shadow, 167, 16;
a vain, 322, 7;
and love, wings to great deeds, 258, 6;
as a motive, 399, 1;
danger of, 2, 33;
effect on mind of, 133, 32;
fling away, 107, 45; 165, 28;
end of, 266, 3;
for place and greatness, 321, 32;
freedom from, 485, 30;
great, from great character, 133, 8;
height of, 326, 15;
hurtful vice, 161, 17;
in Cæsar, 545, 21;
man's, 397, 33;
minds most and least actuated by, 276, 12;
Mme. de Pompadour on, 474, 1;
no, in heaven, 187, 21;
not to be too high-pitched, 243, 42;
often vain, 87, 11;
parent of virtue, 484, 9;
slavery, 14, 19;
toil and vanity of, 249, 44;
vaulting, 511, 48;
way of, 556, 14

=Ambitions= followed by adulation, 416, 4

=Ambition's= hands, washing of, 19, 9

=Ambitious=, man and his masters, 222, 43;
men, the risk to, 543, 1;
thoughts, 25, 47

=Amen=, let me say, 241, 35

=Amendment=, first impulse to, 386, 9;
though civilisation should go, 168, 34

=America=, a forecast of, 512, 20;
the only true, 184, 48

=Americans=, and English, 427, 44;
Emerson on, 335, 8

=Amiss=, nothing, with simpleness and duty, 296, 2

=Amusement=, good of, 569, 23;
_versus_ business, 173, 18;
wish of society, 396, 38

=Anarchy=, and tyranny, 504, 14;
death, 131, 13

=Ancestors=, deeds of, not ours, 88, 8;
our, 332, 12;
our duty to, 527, 40;
people who disrespect, 345, 20;
who has no need of, 553, 27

=Ancestry=, boasting of, 145, 21; 271, 10; 473, 2;
who has nothing but, to boast of, 150, 46

=Anchor=, that holds, 36, 38;
to the soul, 544, 36

=Anchorage= for man, 494, 24;
necessary in this world, 208, 33

=Anchoring=, no, fast, 377, 8

=Ancients=, and moderns, teachings of, compared, 416, 7;
our masters in morals, 521, 20;
that don't grow old, 432, 44;
we, 521, 9

=Anecdote=, value of one, 331, 37

=Angel=, the recording, and the oath, 415, 31;
the recording, no fable, 451, 4

=Angel's= face, her, 154, 47;
visits, 249, 38, 39

=Angel-visits=, 37, 27

=Angels=, and accommodation for them, 443, 10;
as created, 94, 22;
Disraeli on side of the, 450, 27;
men one day, 526, 13;
Swedenborg on, 187, 22;
the best, not in community, 417, 48;
visits of, let pass, 430, 34

=Anger=, a majestic, 471, 7;
a man who provoked to, silences it, 551, 34;
a punishment to one's self, 490, 7;
ability to moderate, 281, 18;
best antidote to, 271, 22;
best restraint upon, 142, 9;
dissolved in menaces, 552, 44;
end of, 540, 21;
for nothing to no purpose, 482, 28;
how to avoid, 215, 27;
how to overcome, 240, 16;
no guard to itself, 296, 1;
of a strong man, 416, 8;
often unreasonable, 466, 44;
restraint of, 142, 49;
slowness to, 147, 19, 20;
the bridle of, 272, 13;
the end of, 62, 44;
to burn slow, 240, 21;
unreasonable, with others, 28, 13;
unrestrained, evil of, 364, 18;
with one we love, 491, 3

=Angler=, the born, 568, 18

=Angling=, Izaak Walton on, 526, 18;
like humility, 567, 40

=Angry= at all, angry for nothing, 148, 47;
man beside himself, 159, 15

=Anguish=, great purifying power of, 6, 64

=Animal=, denial of, in man, 416, 47;
every, loves itself, 327, 42;
life of an, 439, 1

=Animals= summed up in man, 264, 19

=Annihilation=, no such thing as, 377, 7

=Annoyances=, the smallest, effect of, 453, 51

=Annoying= others, 144, 21

=Answer=, a perfect, 145, 31;
the shortest, 453, 27;
wise, how to get a, 177, 26; 531, 43

=Ant=, a silent preacher, 316, 23;
lesson of, 125, 3;
the, example of, 342, 16

=Antæus=, meaning of the fable, 122, 18

=Antagonist=, a prudent, 218, 10;
how to meet an, 373, 1;
an, not to be underrated, 307, 46

=Anthropomorphism= in thought, 60, 32

=Antiquary=, memory of, characterised, 21, 42

=Antique=, the, our admiration of, 337, 6

=Antiquity=, chief moral agent of, 453, 11;
divided from us only by age, 109, 2;
the world's youth, 16, 13

=Antony= over Cæsar's body, 33, 33

=Anvil= and hammer, 30, 31; 74, 20, 30

=Anxiety=, effect of, 198, 10;
misery of, 34, 41;
Plato on, 340, 18;
specific against, 220, 11;
to be despised, 62, 24

=Ape=, perfect, _versus_ degenerate man, 181, 6

=Aphorism=, a short but certain, 323, 33;
essence of, 425, 37;
true salt of literature, 271, 16

=Aphorisms=, only words, 534, 9;
the value of, 65, 38

=Apollo= to Phaëthon, 106, 34

=Apology=, Christian, 487, 15;
from want of sense, 307, 7;
who needs no, 19, 32

=Apostle= and preacher, different aims of, 224, 11

=Apostates= never genuine believers, 479, 54

=Apothegms=, practical ineffectuality of, 185, 16

=Apparel=, and the man, 416, 11;
proclaims the man, 48, 36;
singularity in, 149, 1

=Appearance=, deceptiveness of, 23, 13;
_minus_ reality, 61, 23;
neglect of, becoming in man, 112, 31;
_versus_ reality, 325, 47

=Appearances=, and reality, 481, 34;
deceptiveness of, 7, 52; 18, 23; 305, 17;
first, deceptive, 56, 32;
keeping up, 421, 14;
mere, mislead, 277, 7;
not to be trusted, 116, 39;
power of, 61, 22;
science of, 102, 36;
value of, 534, 32

=Appetite=, a satisfied, incredulous of hunger, 48, 13;
a well-governed, 24, 54;
allures to destruction, 163, 16;
change of, with age, 72, 13;
cruelty of, 546, 23;
from eating, 222, 25;
ideal of, 88, 5;
in youth, 7, 14

=Appetites=, unanswered, ground of complaint, 275, 42

=Applaud= to the very echo, 169, 19

=Applause=, dependence on, 152, 13;
gaining, and avoiding censure, 202, 20;
popular, not fame, 219, 56;
popular, the poison of, 320, 28;
reward of virtue, 278, 11;
to be regarded with suspicion, 545, 42

=Application=, felicitous, merit of a, 471, 12;
importance of right, 475, 4

=Appreciation= and criticism, 201, 27

=Apprenticeship=, no man's completed, 391, 13

=Approved man=, the, 312, 31

=Aptitudes=, to be tested, 79, 7

=Arc=, the, that we see, all that is drawn, 524, 44

=Arch-enemy=, the, 416, 14

=Archer=, how known, 14, 22

=Archimedes=, and his prop, 72, 4;
exclamation of, 89, 8

=Architect=, a fellow-worker, 446, 42

=Architecture=, attraction of, 174, 23;
Greek, character of, 136, 9;
the best, 417, 33

=Arguing=, disingenuous, 145, 25;
rule in, 185, 7

=Argument=, contrasted with testimony, 412, 48;
folly of heat in, 323, 38;
the best, 227, 22;
vain against nature, 166, 38;
_versus_ instruction, 370, 8

=Arguments=, wagers for, 108, 49

=Aristocracies= that do not govern, 356, 46

=Aristocracy=, an, the likely fate of, 13, 53;
essence of, 425, 36;
the, defined, 360, 37;
the right basis of, 229, 24

=Aristocrat=, a young, Iphicrates to, 287, 44

=Armada=, Spanish, scattering of, 5, 42

=Armies= not to be stamped out, 217, 3

=Arms=, a last resort, 328, 25;
and peace, 18, 8

=Army=, a school of morality, 416, 18;
book to study life in, 416, 17;
like a serpent, 14, 25

=Arrogance=, how fostered, 407, 20

=Art=, a great step in study of, 553, 20;
a haven of refuge, 265, 31;
a love for, test of, 472, 42;
a test of, 300, 43;
a wise man's, defined, 540, 27;
achievement in, 155, 9;
ancient and modern, contrasted, 14, 37, 38;
ancient, and modern science, 534, 11;
and Christianity, 420, 19;
and deception, life with, 566, 24;
and life, 516, 17;
and morals, laws of identical, 64, 25;
and nature, compared, 290, 28;
and nature, perfection by, 272, 43;
and morals, rules in, compared, 188, 15, 16;
and religion, 372, 13;
and the religious passion, 451, 13;
as the spirit is, 550, 16;
different appreciations of, 53, 32;
without breath of life, 237, 4;
capability everything in, 130, 26;
condition of perfection in, 265, 23;
contrasted with criticism, 225, 5;
contrasted with manufacture, 550, 16;
display of to be distrusted, 504, 40;
done for money, Ruskin on, 540, 40;
easily learned, 414, 29;
concealment of elaboration in, 54, 28;
Emerson's definition of, 421, 28;
false ambition in, 191, 20;
first and last secret of, 287, 46;
genuine, the _raison d'être_ of, 91, 5;
great, the work of full manhood, 9, 12;
great, Ruskin's definition of, 9, 38;
highest achievement of, 435, 10;
highest, characterised, 434, 36;
highest problem of, 435, 7;
highest subject of, 60, 19;
how far teachable, 205, 10;
how to attain proficiency in, 292, 24;
ignoble, test of, 300, 43;
imitation of nature, 328, 41;
in, ability everything, 60, 9;
in, the only good, 173, 5;
inversion and subversion of, 545, 23;
less expressive than affection, 5, 40;
life of, 416, 12;
measure of love of, 567, 22;
mediæval and modern, 431, 14;
mediæval and modern, compared, 188, 1, 2;
misfortune in, 442, 34;
more than strength, 204, 18;
necessity in, 539, 33;
noble, expression of a great soul, 308, 12;
noblest, 465, 20;
object of, 445, 16;
of both divine and earthly inspiration, 22, 30;
no patriotic, 473, 44;
perfection of, 18, 28;
principle and aim of, 66, 8;
produced hastily, 416, 24;
products, nought and not bad, 357, 48;
question as regards, 450, 29;
rated by gold, 48, 43;
sayings about, 65, 16-18;
secret of power of, 207, 3;
_sine quâ non_ of, 100, 1;
teaching of, 456, 42;
technical skill in, 451, 13;
the best in, 186, 2;
the chief matter in any, 35, 47;
the claims of, 247, 47;
the faculty of, 426, 46;
the great in, defined, 540, 44;
the greatest, 452, 43;
the ideal in, 54, 7;
the last step of, 392, 10;
the laws of, 438, 26;
the oldest, a mushroom, 290, 22;
the theatrical, 431, 8;
to learned and unlearned, respectively, 70, 27;
true, characterised, 499, 38, 39;
unintelligible to the head alone, 433, 22;
unquickened from above and within, 507, 53;
when to be called fine, 136, 10;
who knows, half or wholly, 552, 5;
without enthusiasm, 316, 29;
worthless, apart from nature, 139, 20

=Artifice=, danger and disgrace of, 225, 9

=Artisan= at home everywhere, 361, 25

=Artisans= and artists, 184, 36

=Artist=, a bad and a good, distinguished, 323, 16;
an, essence of, 474, 27;
and his age, 416, 26;
and his art, 205, 10; 416, 28;
and his work, 416, 25; 512, 30;
and society, 14, 30;
at thought of mob, 65, 30;
conceiving and executing, 416, 27;
destructive influence of society on, 396, 12;
function of, 462, 10;
great, and his ideal, 431, 12;
greatest, characterised, 434, 36;
his function, 334, 45;
his praise in his work, 55, 8;
his true praise, 265, 5;
measuring tools of, 14, 29;
modesty in, merit of, 410, 38;
necessity of sight to, 448, 40;
good, mark of, 418, 15;
true praise of, 14, 28;
Ruskin's definition of, 14, 27; 14, 30;
spiritual, born blind, 454, 40;
the best, 426, 28;
the greatest, as defined by Ruskin, 143, 49;
vocation of, 416, 29;
truth in hand of, 18, 57

=Artist-work=, the most important, 301, 1

=Artistes=, conceit of, 218, 23

=Artists=, ancient, aim of, 208, 27;
and artisans, difference between, 184, 36;
great and feeble, distinctions between, 534, 34;
inventing and at work, 60, 28;
no standard for amateurs, 416, 3

=Arts=, a family of sisters, 421, 8;
all fine, related, 10, 38;
and nature, 221, 39;
conditions necessary for, 421, 22;
great, contrasted with false, 133, 9;
on what their vitality depends, 425, 21;
the fine effect of culture of, 168, 42;
the fine, mother and father of, 444, 12;
the fine, secret of, 182, 17;
the fine, the aim in, 188, 45;
the fine, what we know in, 190, 37;
the perfection of the, 447, 25;
the principle and aim of, 66, 8;
to learned and unlearned, 438, 33;
useful mother and father of, 444, 12

=Asbestos=, fate of what is not of, 541, 3

=Ashes=, live in their wonted fires, 77, 28;
the, of your sires, 394, 45

=Asketh=, he that, 93, 32

=Asking=, timid, 364, 50;
twice better than going wrong, 28, 33; 29, 48

=Aspiration=, its effect on us, 539, 36;
persistent, of mankind, like a compass to a ship, 447, 29

=Ass=, bray of, 367, 38;
why offensive, 85, 25;
dreams of the, 58, 16;
man with a head of, 41, 23;
mistaking itself for a stag, 41, 8;
never more than an ass, 171, 46;
rather an, that carries us, 29, 26;
the hungry, 222, 31;
the kick of, how to treat, 171, 45

=Assertion= no proof, 27, 6;
without discrimination, Dante on, 40, 58

=Asses= know asses, 79, 6

=Assistance=, a universal necessity, 304, 16;
mutual, a law of nature, 180, 43

=Association= of ideas, 257, 47

=Associations=, old, not to be bought, 526, 6

=Assuming=, the most, 479, 16

=Assurance= doubly sure, 167, 49

=Astray=, who walks, 551, 16

=Atheism=, moral root of, 277, 18;
Plato on, 466, 42;
practical, defined, 395, 10;
what it amounts to, 301, 3

=Atheist= by night, 34, 7;
no good man, 211, 26

=Atheist's= God, the, 301, 3

=Athene=, the goddess, 430, 18

=Athens= and Greece, 556, 6

=Atonement=, commencement of, 421, 11

=Attachment=, personal, as a ground of public conduct, 346, 51;
powerful, effect of, 354, 51;
the law of, 337, 13;
tokens of, 133, 10

=Attainment=, satisfactory, 313, 26

=Attempt= begun to be carried through, 24, 18

=Attention=, evil effect of constant, 46, 54

=Attorney's= epitaph, 155, 15

=Auctioneer=, the, at a non-plus, 358, 10

=Audacity=, the effect of, 346, 39

=Augustine's= prayer for deliverance, 245, 7

=Auld=, acquaintance, 389, 33;
Nickie Ben, Burns' address to, 102, 18

=Austerity= superseded, 544, 31

=Australia=, fertility of, 75, 50

=Author=, and his brother authors, 301, 5;
cares of an, 311, 20;
compared with his works, 301, 5;
enraged, 49, 35;
fastidious about his style, 543, 2;
genius not enough for, 208, 13;
how to understand an, 177, 44;
most engaging powers of, 459, 28;
in the regard of publisher, 301, 6;
popular, wish of, 84, 18;
profession of, 278, 44;
reading an, 524, 37;
rule in choosing, 42, 44;
unconsciously portrays himself, 90, 2;
who should not be, 150, 6;
without gift of selection, 151, 6

=Authority=, a test of character, 474, 25;
based on injustice, 194, 24;
based on kindness and force, 144, 5;
gentleness in, commended, 175, 14;
conduct of people in, 345, 1;
how founded, 330, 39;
how to destroy, 219, 2;
how weakened, 314, 12;
not to be lightly resisted, 304, 8;
of a greater, submission to, 449, 2;
provocative of disobedience, 548, 21

=Authors=, and their works, 284, 11;
Horace's advice to, 406, 30;
most original, 444, 3;
of a people, their worth, 420, 5;
three classes of, 468, 24;
to be content with choice readers, 379, 27;
young, error of, 568, 8

=Authorship=, three difficulties of, 468, 25; 497, 9

=Avarice=, and luxury compared, 258, 11;
compared with poverty, 354, 18, 35;
contrasted with poverty,
62, 43;
how created, 204, 39; 488, 32;
in contrast with gluttony, 124, 42;
no, in hell, 137, 21;
subduing, profit of, 230, 44

=Avaricious=, the, 386, 27;
the, their affectation, 50, 32

=Avengement=, man's part, 65, 35

=Avenue=, every, barred now, 317, 29

=Awkwarkness=, cause of, 521, 15;
sign of genius, 133, 22

=Awoke= and found myself famous, 165, 10

=Axioms=, only words, 534, 9

=Aye= or no, the power of, 189, 41

B

=Bachelors=, old, why there are, 415, 25

=Back=, defence of, 488, 38;
going, when easy and when impossible, 492, 44;
rather than wrong, 381, 1

=Backbiter=, and face-flatterer, the same, 300, 29

=Backsliding=, fatal, 478, 19

=Bacon=, fruitlessness of his teachings, 314, 34;
treatment of, 349, 20;
unconcern about his name, 110, 26

=Bad=, as a doctor, 129, 35;
at strife with good, 382, 8;
for sake of good, 125, 42;
ground, pains not to be wasted on, 297, 16;
in the thinking, 315, 2;
man always suspicious, 80, 32;
man, his enemies, 416, 45;
man, opponents of, 59, 44;
man, pretending to be good, 261, 38;
men, ability of, 477, 19;
mistaken for good, 417, 38;
nothing and no one absolutely, 218, 7, 13;
nothing, if understood, 78, 40;
nothing so, as we think, 378, 47;
once, bad always, 386, 23;
railing against, deprecated, 71, 37;
the fear of, 436, 18;
the, sparing, 31, 33; 148, 23;
thing, worthless, 1, 8;
when good, 331, 32

=Bairns=, young and old, and their parents, 543, 9

=Ballads=, more powerful than laws, 241, 33

=Ballot-box=, a leveller, 33, 45

=Banishment=, bitter bread of, 76, 17

=Baptism=, with water and with fire, 186, 15

=Barbarian=, a, 150, 38

=Barbarism=, defined, 549, 31;
first step from, 495, 10

=Barbarous=, character, traits of, 475, 31;
man, first spiritual want of, 428, 37

=Bargain=, a, and the purse, 6, 38;
a good, a loss, 31, 39;
to be clear, 260, 23

=Bargains=, confined to man, 263, 1;
great, no economy, 178, 45;
third party to, 470, 34

=Barrel-organ= in a slum, 170, 45

=Barter=, passion for, 77, 51

=Base=, and depraved training in, 70, 26;
man, a, who means to be your enemy, 541, 34

=Baseness=, at heart, effect of, on character, 542, 7;
irrespective of looks, 112, 37;
provision for turning, into nobleness, 21, 23

=Bashfulness=, a defect, 180, 30;
without merit, 278, 20

=Bathing=, no, twice in the same river, 302, 52

=Battalions=, the heaviest, God with the, 329, 27

=Battle=, a, won, Wellington on, 444, 45;
all, misunderstanding, 9, 14;
ceasing for want of combatants, 88, 22;
each man alone in, 190, 36;
necessary to victory, 401, 46;
won, as sad as one lost, 297, 35

=Battlefield=, mercy on the, 331, 11

=Battlefields=, world's, 465, 23

=Bayonets=, Napoleon on, 566, 31

=Be=, to, not to be, 490, 32

=Be-all= and end-all, 412, 54

=Bear= and endure, 346, 9, 10

=Beard=, or no beard, 146, 41;
pride of, 170, 46

=Beast=, no, without some pity, 301, 8;
ungovernable, how to manage, 188, 43

=Beasts=, wild and tame, to be avoided, 324, 44

=Beau=, Fielding's definition of, 1, 13

=Beaufort=, Cardinal, last words of, 537, 24

=Beautiful=, a manifestation, 417, 7;
and good, 417, 8; 430, 39;
benefit of, 540, 41;
capacity for, rare, 325, 12;
compared with rational, 331, 48;
effect of fostering, 113, 55;
Emerson on, 315, 37;
feeling for, to be cultivated, 264, 3;
formerly holy, 185, 50;
foundation of, 417, 10;
how to find, 526, 32;
in curves, 187, 43;
like sunshine, 417, 9;
nothing, by itself, 314, 45;
nothing, out of place, 206, 2;
only in song, 114, 25;
souls, short-lived, 162, 29;
the alone, 482, 34;
the, and the rude craftsman, 510, 51;
the, in the form, 23, 42;
the, lot of, 513, 21;
the, reconciliation of good and true, 518, 17;
things, the two most, 459, 27;
test of the, 313, 43;
to be encouraged, 460, 15

=Beauty=, a fragile good, 112, 30;
a sign of purity, 153, 37;
a thing of, 21, 37;
adoration of, 273, 29;
aim of the world, 208, 28;
all, in man, 312, 35;
and folly, 26, 14;
and life in the small, 189, 51;
and the eternal, inseparable, 153, 52;
and virtue, rarely combined, 110, 42;
and worship of, Goethe on, 66, 9;
as seen, undefinable, 567, 44;
as truth, 520, 22;
attractive power of, 1, 16;
basis and essence of, 540, 25;
born a, born married, 42, 6;
complex, 488, 22;
contrasted with grace, 131, 36-38;
contracted with grace and innocence, 66, 10;
contrasted with grandeur, 132, 8;
dead, chaos comes again, 109, 47;
defined, 197, 26;
dependence of, on expression, 97, 50;
effect of contrast on, 47, 33;
Elysian, 81, 4;
everywhere, 290, 35;
fair point of the line of, 427, 3;
final aim of art, 66, 8;
fleeting, 70, 15;
forms of, compared, 1, 15;
human, effect of sight of, 301, 40;
ideal, fugitive, 436, 10;
ideal of, 436, 11;
in a plain dress, 447, 47;
in common lives, 476, 20;
in the purest sense, 469, 10;
like a leaf, 225, 20;
moral power of, 382, 16;
mortal, 22, 27;
not always blessed, 322, 34;
not separable from the eternal, 153, 52;
not vain, because fading, 197, 4;
of a rainbow character, 523, 4;
one, mortification to another, 292, 8;
only seen in suffering, 379, 37;
personal, power of, 129, 60;
persuasive power of, 10, 10;
possibility of, 471, 5;
principal ingredient in, 511, 41;
seat and sources of, 507, 34;
seldom unconscious, 105, 3;
sense of, and duty, 453, 9;
sought for pleasure, 20, 36;
sources of, 184, 40;
subtle attraction of, 99, 42;
the best part of, 413, 29;
the nature of, 406, 40;
too great, effect on sight of, 403, 5;
unconsciousness of, rare, 105, 3;
undemonstrable, 331, 23;
vain, 103, 24;
why snarled at, 274, 49;
with modesty, rare, 368, 3;
without modesty, 313, 42;
without virtue, 99, 25; 224, 20;
worship of mere, 465, 28

="Because"= our concern, not "why," 556, 13

=Becoming=, the, defined, 535, 45

=Bed=, a silken, kindly, 332, 21;
the conjugal, 386, 32

=Bede's= tomb, inscription on, 138, 26

=Bedlam=, how tenanted, 253, 47

=Bee=, little busy, 161, 11

=Bees=, keeping of, 437, 26

=Beggar=, and king, 190, 8;
and rich, different feelings of, 531, 32;
at his level, 460, 12;
Lamb on, 417, 11-17;
on horseback, 387, 40, 41;
pains taken by Nature in forming, 292, 26

=Beggar'd= all description, 155, 2

=Beggar's=, bag, 28, 54;
purse, 1, 19;
robes, 367, 39;
the, song, 530, 11

=Begging=, apt to provoke disgust, 88, 32;
shame of, to be spared, 123, 2

=Beginning=, a bad, 1, 6;
a good, 6, 39;
a hot, course and end of, 15, 6;
and end, contrast of, 194, 26;
cheerful, 8, 59; 90, 5;
contrasted with ulterior steps, 9, 15;
difficult, 8, 60;
implies an end, 48, 12;
most notable, 186, 40;
no, rather than never end, 29, 34;
prior to improving or finishing, 345, 4;
the true, unnoticed, 458, 35

=Beginnings= to be resisted, 356, 59

=Begun=, half done, 25, 49; 68, 30

=Behaviour=, contagious, 109, 21;
end of education, 77, 9;
in private, 58, 14;
learned, as we take diseases, 275, 20;
rule for, 394, 46;
the first sign of force, 347, 4

=Being=, all, founded on reason, 9, 3;
every, has its own beauty, 91, 35;
resigned with regret, 112, 2, 3;
the chain of, 511, 47

=Beings=, above us and beneath us, a wise man's attitude to, 199, 48

=Belial=, the sons of, 445, 33

=Belief=, a, easy to a man, 203, 16;
and conduct, inconsistency of, 264, 2;
and disbelief, dangerous, 346, 18;
a miracle, 197, 16;
alternations of, 173, 30;
affected by custom, 523, 26;
easier than judgment, 93, 38;
eludes system, 163, 15;
flower of, in the last darkness, 544, 7;
general ground of, 9, 28;
impotent to change nature, 301, 10;
in absurdity, 49, 50;
limiting, by comprehensibility, 148, 48;
modern, 565, 49;
multiform, 476, 19;
now-a-days, only half-hearted, 275, 41;
often unintelligent, 274, 4;
one's, effect on, of another's, 200, 49;
only in practice, 457, 19;
or disbelief, no compelling, 302, 36;
our, in others, 521, 29;
power of, 538, 22; 532, 28;
power of a firm, 27, 19;
that is contrary to truth, 301, 11;
the, we incline to, 539, 38;
variations of, from generation to generation, 305, 4;
_versus_ debate, 12, 13;
want of, to be concealed, 461, 15;
what regulates our, 528, 6

=Beliefs=, two, necessary to fulfilling our duty, 525, 23;
various as men, 274, 24

=Believers=, traditional, the god of, 430, 15

=Believing=, man, the, the original, 442, 8;
three means of, 468, 27;
unhasting, 145, 19;
without seeing, merit of, 30, 45

=Bell=, church, inscription on, 231, 5

=Bells=, church, 64, 26

=Bell-wethers=, men have their, 267, 28

=Belly=, a slave to, 417, 27;
empty, effect of, on body, 545, 25;
full, effect of, on spirit, 545, 25

=Belongings=, our chief, inalienable, 450, 3

=Beloved=, how to be, 490, 14;
object, centre of a paradise, 90, 6;
of the Almighty, 417, 28

=Below=, things, nothing to us, 361, 10

=Benefactor=, how we regard, 527, 24

=Benefactors=, how to treat, 71, 26

=Beneficence=, defined, 28, 3;
fruitful effects of, 1, 22;
tree of, well-rooted, 549, 18

=Benefit=, a high, compared with a low, 198, 46;
affected by manner of conferring it, 475, 1;
given quickly, 194, 38;
that sticks to fingers, 478, 15;
to one worthy of it, 28, 1

=Benefits=, our sense of, 385, 20;
remembered, and not, 144, 54

=Benevolence=, impossible to one ill at ease, 305, 40;
rare, 368, 6;
universal, pretenders to, 480, 14

=Benevolent=, heart, our regard for, 417, 30;
mistaken occupation of, 417, 31

=Berries=, two lovely, moulded on one stem, 395, 33