Chapter XII: Letter V: 400 (10)

He who pursues an idle wish
But climbs a tree to catch a fish.

--_Chinese._

2042

Best wishes! What avails that phrase, unless
Best services attend them.

--_Plautus._

2043

Wishing, of all employments, is the worst.

--_Young._

2044

You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come,
Knock as you please, there's nobody at home.

--_Pope._

2045

An eye witness outweighs others.

--_From the Latin._

2046

No greater woe
Can be, than to remember happy days
In misery.

2047

By telling our woes we often assuage them.

--_Danish._

2048

A fashionable woman is always in love--with herself.

2049

A WOMAN'S QUESTION.

Before I trust my fate to thee,
Or place my hand in thine,
Before I let thy future give
Color and form to mine,
Before I peril all for thee,
Question thy soul to-night for me.

I break all slighter bonds, nor feel
A shadow of regret:
Is there one link within the past
That holds thy spirit yet?
Or is thy faith as clear and free
As that which I can pledge to thee?

Does there within thy dimmest dreams
A possible future shine,
Wherein thy life could henceforth breathe,
Untouched, unshared by mine?
If so, at any pains or cost,
Oh, tell me before all is lost.

Look deeper still. If thou canst feel
Within thy inmost soul,
That thou hast kept a portion back,
While I have staked the whole,--
Let no false pity spare the blow,
But in true mercy tell me so.

Is there within thy heart a need
That mine cannot fulfil?
One cord that any other hand
Could better wake or still?
Speak now--lest at some future day
My whole life wither and decay.

--_Adelaide Anne Proctor._

2050

A WOMAN'S NOBLEST STATION.

Seek to be good, but aim not to be great;
A woman's noblest station is retreat:
Her fairest virtues fly from public sight;
Domestic worth,--that, shuns too strong a light.

2051

Kindness in women,
Not their beauteous looks,
Shall win my love.

--_Shakespeare._

2052

Alas! I am but woman, fond and weak
Without even power my proud, pure love to speak;
But oh, by all I fail in, love not me
For what I am, but what I wish to be.

2053

Manners, not jewels, are a woman's ornament.

2054

The woman who really wishes to refuse an aspirant to her hand contents herself with saying, No. She who explains, wants to be convinced.

2055

Her voice was ever soft,
Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman.

--_Shakespeare._

2056

In Dr. Johnson's opinion, "a woman was well dressed, when, after seeing her, one could not remember what she had on."

2057

A beautiful woman without fixed principles, may be likened to those fair but rootless flowers which float in streams, driven by every breeze.

2058

Where is the man who has the power and skill
To stem the torrent of a woman's will?
For if she will, she will, you may depend on't,
And if she won't, she won't, and there's an end on't.

--_Aaron Hill._

2059

A woman possessing nothing but outward advantages, is like a flower without fragrance, a tree without fruit.

2060

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

--_George Eliot._

2061

Learn above all, how to manage women: their thousand Ahs! and Ohs! so thousand-fold, can be cured, but how,--I cannot tell.

--_Goethe._

2062

Pretty women without religion are like flowers without perfume.

2063

In women we love that which is natural,
We admire that which is acquired,
And shun that which is artificial.

2064

TAKE TO THE WOODS.

If thou art worn and hard beset
With sorrow that thou wouldst forget;
If thou wouldst read a lesson that will keep
Thy heart from fainting and thy soul from sleep,
Go to the woods and hills!--No tears
Dim the sweet looks that Nature wears.

--_Longfellow._

2065

How many a day has been damped and darkened by an angry word!

2066

No word He hath spoken
Was ever yet broken.

--_Anon._

2067

Many a word at random spoken,
May soothe or wound a heart that's broken.

--_Sir Walter Scott._

2068

It is as easy to draw back a stone thrown with force from the hand, as to recall a word once spoken.

2069

The unspoken word never does harm.

2070

For want of a word, lives often drift, and remain apart.

2071

RASH, ANGRY WORDS.

Rash, angry words, and spoken out of season,
When passion has usurped the throne of reason,
Have ruined many. Passion is unjust,
And for an idle transitory gust
Of gratified revenge dooms us to pay,
With long repentance at a later day.

_Theognis, a Greek._
--_Translated by Frere._

2072

An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions: he is neither hot nor timid.

--_Chesterfield._

2073

Words are but wind, but writing may rise up in judgment.

2074

Stay longer--are two charming words in a friend's vocabulary.

2075

Fair words gladden many a heart.

--_Longfellow._

2076

To a good listener few words will do.

2077

Hard words break no bones, but they sometimes break hearts.

2078

He that would be well spoken of,
Must not speak ill of others.

2079

Kind words are the music of the world.

--_F. W. Faber._

2080

Kind words are a bright oasis in life's great desert.

--_The Coming Age._

2082

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below,
Words, without thoughts, never to Heaven go.

--_Shakespeare._

2083

Words are but pictures of our thoughts.

--_Dryden._

2084

If word of mine
Have harmed thee, rashly spoken, let the winds
Bear all remembrance of it swift away.

2085

There are words which cut like steel.

--_Balzac._

2086

If you think twice before you speak once, you will speak twice the better for it.

2087

Thy words have darted hope into my soul,
And comfort dawns upon me.

--_Southern._

2088

A word and a stone let go, cannot be recalled.

2089

Like a beautiful flower, full of colour, but without perfume, are the fine, but fruitless words, of him who does not act accordingly.

--_Buddha._

2090

It would perhaps be well for many of us to have in sight the following little sentiment when writing letters:--

Words spoken are light as air;
Words written are always there.

2091

AN ILL-TEMPERED LETTER.

An ill-tempered letter, once sent, will sometimes embitter a life-time. We once saw an old gentleman, with a wise, fine head, calm face, and a most benevolent look, beg of a postmaster to return him a letter which he had dropped into the box. To do so, as everybody knows, is illegal; but won over by the old gentleman's importunity, the postmaster complied, upon full proof, in comparing the writing etc. being given. Then, with a beaming face, the old gentleman tore the letter into fragments, and, scattering them to the winds, exclaimed--"Ah! I've preserved my friend." The fact is, he had written a letter in a state of irritation, which was probably unjust and hurtful, but which he had wisely recalled. "Written words remain," is not only a proverb, but a very grave caution; and hence the advice--never write in anger, or, at any rate, keep your letter till next morning, when you probably will be cool and in a better frame of mind.

2092

A good beginning is half the work.

--_Euripides._

2093

Art little? Do thy little well:
And for thy comfort know
The great can do their greatest work
No better than, just so.

--_Goethe._

2094

He who is willing to work finds it hard to wait.

2095

Never be ashamed of honest work. It is far better to be a good blacksmith than a bad lawyer.

2096

YOUTH AND OLD AGE.

Youth is the seed-time, old age the harvest. If we lay nothing up for old age it will be as related in the fable; namely: A cricket came to the ant, and said, "Give me something to eat?" The ant asked, "What did you in the summer?" "I whistled," said the cricket. "Then," said the ant, "if you whistled in summer while I was working, you may dance in the winter," and gave her nothing.

2097

We are best known by what we do.

2098

One's work is the best company.

--_French._

2099

I am often tired in, but never of, my work.

--_Whitefield._

2100

We often hear of people breaking down from over-work, but nine cases out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.

--_Sir John Lubbock._

2101

Unless a man works, he cannot find out what he is able to do.

2102

I cannot abide to see men throw away their tools the minute the clock begins to strike, as if they took no pleasure in their work, and was afraid o' doing a stroke too much. The very grindstone 'll go on turning a bit after you loose it.

--_George Eliot._

2103

THE TENT.

When my bier is borne to the grave
And its burden is laid in the ground
Think not that Rumi is there,
Nor cry, like the mourners around,
He is gone,--all is over--farewell!
But go on your ways again,
And forgetting your own petty loss,
Remember his infinite gain.
For, know that this world is a tent,
And life but a dream in the night,
Till death plucks the curtain apart
And awakens the sleeper with light.

--_R. H. Stoddard, From the Persian._

2104

The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in the closet.

2105

FROM "EVERY DAY CHRISTIAN LIFE."

Shall I tell you what a princess wrote--the Princess Amelia, who was an aunt of our good Queen Victoria, and who after a long and painful sickness and trial died at an early age?--

"Unthinking, idle, wild, and young,
I laughed and danced, I talked and sung,
And proud of health, of freedom, vain,
Dreamt not of sorrow, care, or pain.
Oh! then, in those bright hours of glee,
I thought the world was made for me.

But when the hour of trial came,
And sickness shook my feeble frame,
And folly's gay pursuits were o'er,
And I could sing and dance no more--
Oh! then, I thought how sad 'twould be,
Were only this world made for me."

--_F. W. Farrar, D. D._

2106

A man's quarrel with the world, is only a quarrel with himself.

2107

All my theology is reduced to this narrow compass--Jesus Christ came into this world to save sinners.

--_A. Alexander._

2108

The world does not seem to care for honorable lives as much as it does for a good bank-account.

2109

He who would enjoy many friends, and live happy in the world, must often be deaf, dumb, and blind, to its vices and follies.

2110

IMPORTANCE OF ATTENDING PUBLIC WORSHIP.

Said the Rev. W. J. Dawson: "I know in my own heart how soon the spirit of devoutness fades when from any cause I am deprived of public worship for any length of time. And when I see a youth to whom religious worship has been the atmosphere of his childhood, gradually withdrawing himself from the means of grace, I tremble for him, because I have seen what that means. I can think of men whom I loved, and who now lead wretched and degraded lives, and all their misery began when they forsook the tabernacles of their God."

2111

A soft answer turneth away wrath.

--_Proverbs xv, 1v._

2112

Call not that man wretched, who, whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.

--_Southey._

2113

A good life keeps off wrinkles.

--_German._

2114

What is writ, is writ--
Would it were worthier.

2115

HANDWRITING--NATIONALITY OF.

It is a remarkable fact, that no man can ever get rid of the style of handwriting peculiar to his country. If he be English, he always writes in English style; if French, in French style; if German, Italian, or Spanish, in the style peculiar to his nation. Professor B---- states:--"I am acquainted with a Frenchman, who has passed all his life in England, who speaks English like one of our own countrymen, and writes it with ten times the correctness of ninety-nine in a hundred of us; but yet who cannot, for the life of him, imitate our mode of writing. I knew a Scotch youth, who was educated entirely in France, and resided eighteen years in that country, mixing exclusively with French people, but who, although he had a French writing-master, and, perhaps, never saw anything but French writing in his life, or rarely, yet wrote exactly in the Scotch style."

--_D'Israeli._

2116

The word that is heard, passes away; the letter that is written,--remains.

2117

Every time you avoid doing wrong,
You increase your inclination to do right.

2118

The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.

2119

My ear is pained, my soul is sick with every day's report of wrong and outrage with which earth is filled.

--_Cowper._

Y

2120

_Yankee._--The word Yankee is believed to have been derived from the manner in which the Indians endeavored to pronounce the word English, which they rendered Yenghees, whence the word Yankee.

--_From "Milledulcia."_

2121

Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?

--_Burton._

2122

How often it is like autumn leaves, many hopes and ambitions that yesterday were bright and strong, are now, alas, dead!

2123

Thy yesterday is past,
Thy to-day, thy future,
Thy to-morrow, is a secret.

--_From The Talmud._

2124

Speak gently to the young, for they
Will have enough to bear--
Pass through this life as best they may,
'Tis full of anxious care.

--_Geo. W. Hangford._

2125

YOUTH.

How beautiful is youth! How bright it gleams
With its illusions, aspirations, dreams!
Book of beginnings, story without end,
Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!
All possibilities are in its hands:
No danger daunts it, and no foe withstands:
In its sublime audacity of faith,
"Be thou removed!" it, to the mountain, saith.

2126

An easy youth, generally means a hard old age.

2127

YOUTH AND AGE.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth.

--_Cicero._

2128

Youth is ever apt to judge in haste,
And lose the medium in the wild extreme.

--_Aaron Hill._

2129

YOUTH.

Happy the youth that finds the bride
Whose birth is to his own allied,
The sweetest joy of life:
But oh, the crowds of wretched souls
Fetter'd to minds of different moulds
And chain'd t' eternal strife!

--_Dr. Isaac Watts._

2130

In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.

2131

What is youth?--a dancing billow,
Winds behind, and rocks before!

--_Wordsworth._

2132

You youngsters nowadays think you're to begin with living well, and working easy: you've no notion of running afoot before you get on horseback.

2133

Heavy work in youth is sweet repose in old age.

--_From the Italian._

Z

2134

_Excessive Zeal._--An Indian, having heard from a white man some strictures on zeal, replied--"I don't know about having too much zeal; but I think it is better the pot should _boil over than_ not boil at all."

--_Macleod._

INDEX

Abilities, No man's, are so remarkably, 1

Absence, Pains of, wiped away, 2

Abuse, Weapon of vulgar, 3

Acorns, It is told of Admiral Collingwood, 4

Acquaintance, Easier to make, than to shake, 5
Softens, 6
Sometimes lowers opinion of one, 7

Act, Speaks out in, etc., 8
What is done by one, all may do, 9
Which makes a friend and enemy, what, 10

Acting, World practices, 11

Action, Do what you can, etc., 12
Good, receives recompense, 13
Judged by motive for, 14
Our, are our own, 15
Speak not of, before doing, 16
Thought, compared with, 17
What I must do, is all that concerns me, 18

Actor, Compared with preacher, 19

Adieu, Sweet, bids return, 20

Adversity, Contrasted with prosperity, 21
Does not take away true friends, 22
Effect of, 23
He who never was acquainted with, 24
Proud man in, nobody knows him, 25
The finest friendships have been, 26

Advice, Ask not for, when assistance wanted, 27
Before giving, we must have secured its, 28
Difficult to make agreeable, 29
Friends required, 30
Give not to self-conceited man, 31
Pouring water on a duck's, 32
Who comes for, wants not to be corrected, 33

Affectation, Clerical abhorred, 34
Cure of, 35
Lights candle to our defects, 36
Vain and ridiculous, 37

Affections, Sad to see them changed, 38

Afflictions, "Be still, sad heart," etc., 39
For every sort of, 40
Sons of, brothers, 41

Affronts, Young men soon give, 42

Age, A joy, if youth well spent, 43
Approaching, signs of, 44
Matter of feeling, not of years, 45
Of men and women, what, 46
Old, be happy in, 47
Old, and faded flowers, 48
Reverence for, 49
Should make one indulgent, etc., 50
Slave to custom, 51
Speak gently to aged, 52
Thinks the past the best, 53
These are the effects, 54

Alcides, No equal but himself, 55

Alms, Rich often slowest to give, 56
Side means used to raise, 57

Alone, What stamps the wrinkles deepest, 58

Alphabet, Hawaiian in 1886, 59

Ambition, Man of, has many masters, 60

Amiability, Easy, when, 61

Ambition, Sea of, tempest-tost is, 62
Ultimate result of all, 63

Amusements, The mind ought, 64

Ancestor, Merit of, effect of, on descendant, 65

Ancestors, Not always well to look them up, 66
Merit from, 67

Ancestry, Boasting of, lowers, etc., 68
Never mind, etc., 69

Anger, A good man's, lasts an, 70
Avoid a man in a passion, 71
Begins in folly, ends in repentance, 72
Effect of subduing, 73
Fatal to dignity, 74
Nurse not secretly, 75
Shows weak judgment, 76
Suppressed, prevents sorrow, 77
Unjust and ridiculous when, 78
When a man grows angry, 79

Animals, Agreeable friends, why, 80
Treat kindly, as God's creatures, 81
Kindness to, 82

Answer, A gracious, 83

Anxiety, The poison of human life, 84

Appearance, Beware of judging by, 85
Dress does not change the man, 86
Man's reception depends on, 87

Appearances, Often misleading, instance of, 88

Appetite, Riches cannot buy, 89

Applause, To love it, praiseworthy, 90

Apples, Good medicine, 91

Appointments, May be given, but, etc., 92

Approbation, If general, 93

Arbitration, Makes an enemy, or a friend, 94

Argument, Contend not with a fool, etc., 95

Assistance, Asking and bestowing, 96

Associates, Live not too near to, 97

Association, Produces like characters, 98

Audience, Interesting or fatiguing, it, 99

Beautiful, The, never desolate, 100

Beauty, Of face, and mind compared, 101
Of youth, age, etc., 102
Selfish, a flower without perfume, 103
What is? 104
What may be preserved, 105
Without kindness, 106

Bed, The, heaven to the weary head, 107

Believe, Men generally, what, 108

Benefactors, The kindest, 109

Beneficent, A, person is like a fountain, 110

Benefit, None too small to magnify, 111
Receiving, sale of liberty, 112
When to forget, when to remember, 113

Benevolence, Human, not always pure, 114

Bereavement, Effect on heart, 115

Betrothed, How to know him, 116

Bible, Index to eternity, 117
Mystery of mysteries, 118
Remember that God is speaking to you in, 119
Some curious facts in, 120
The, 120a

Bird, "A little bird told me," origin of expression, 121

Birds, Old, are hard to, 122

Birth, Be not ashamed of humble, 123
Is what, 124

Birthday, Has different sounds to different ages, 125

Blessings, Those who give them, keep them, 126

Boaster, World has no use for, 127

Book, Good keeper of, 128
If loaned to a girl, read it when returned, 129
Use as bee uses the flower, 130

Books, Be careful of what you read, 131
Borrowed, return, 132
Friends ever near, 133
Introductions to the best society, 134
Lending of, 135
Often denied the poor, 136
That you may carry to the fire, 137
Useless, costly, 138

Bore, Who is in society, 139

Borrowers, What some do, 140

Boy, At what age should win his way, 141
Be polite, advice of father to, 142
Gallant answer of one, 143
How to bring up,--Ruskin, 144
May be led to college, but, etc., 145
Results of disobeying parents, 146
The blind, 147
The orphan's fate, 148
What gifts help him best, 149

Boys, What they should learn, 150

Brain, (Mind), good to polish, 151

Bread, Eaten, soon forgotten, 152

Breeding, Better than birth, 153
Good, consists of having, etc., 154
Good, result of what, 155

Britain, Great, climate of, 156
Great, nobility of, 157

Brother, Sufferings claim a, pity, 158
Thy, in poverty, etc., 159

Burdened, The, respect them,--Napoleon, 160

Burdens, Another's, weight of, 161
Lightened by helping others, 162

Burns, Robert, what we owe to him, 163

Business, Effect of prosperity or failure, 164
I'll give money to, 165
Sentiment in, 166
To, that we love, 167
Your, keep to it, 168

Busybodies, Know all things, 169

Buyer, The, depreciates, etc., 170

By-and-by, Road to, leads where, 171

Calamity, Do not insult, etc., 172

Can't, I, does nothing, 173

Cap, "Feather in," derivation of expression, 174
Whom the, fits, let him, 175

Capacity, Deplorable, when, 176

Cards, Avoid as temptations, 177
For benefits designed, 178

Care, Carry not to bed with you, 179

Cares, Put them off, 180

Cat, To win a, and lose a, 181

Caution, Consider well, what can be done but once, 182
Life of, reward, 183
One rule for showing, 184
Sign not paper, etc., 185

Censure, Of one, makes two cordial, 186

Ceremony, A bow of, sometimes repels, 187
Excess of, a want of breeding, 188

Certainty, That which has happened, 189

Chalmers, Rev. Dr., in London, 190

Chance, Heaven and earth not made by, 191

Change, Times, and we, 192
When you seek to, 193

Character, An admirable, described, 194
Best, not without fault, 195
Crown jewel of, sincerity, 196
Delicacy, inseparable from sweetness of, 197
Description of upright, 198
Illustrated, by little things, 199
Keep it abroad, as at home, 200
Kindness, better for, than talents, 201
Man of, shown by merely naming him, 202
Men believed, or not, because of, 203
None suddenly very good, or very bad, 204
Of public man, a football, 205
One to be admired, 206
Prosperity brings forth hidden, 207
The history of a man, 208
What firm and weak feet do, 209
What shows strength of, 210

Charitable, Give, and God repays, 211

Charity, In word only, 212
Begins at home,--its home, 213
Cast thy bread upon the waters, 214
Compared with politeness, 215
Do good by stealth, etc., 216
Duty is, where there is plenty, 217
Exalts, though we stoop to bestow, 218
Fountain of, always clear, 219
Give freely to the deserving, 220
How to give it, 221
Not to excite hope when, 222
Relieve fellow man in distress, 223
See Leviticus XXV, 35, 224
Visit of, to needy, visit of the Savior, 225
What given in, is kept, 226
What is, and what its reward, 227
Who at fault with regard to, 228
Who gives double, 229

Cheat, On whom shame first time, 230

Cheek, The, is apter to tell, 231

Cheer, Speak word of, to the living, 232

Cheerfulness, Refreshes by its presence, 233
Smoothes the road of, 234
Suggests good health, etc., 235

Chide, A friend in private, and, 236

Child, A short sermon by one, 237
A sleeping, 238
Beautiful as rose, etc., 239
Bruise not its heart, 240
Correct, etc., 241
Destiny of, work of the mother, 242
Eyes of, beautiful, etc., 243
Her little shoes, lines on, 244
Inscription on silver plate of, 245
Judicious praise of, 246
Learns indoors, what he tells, 247
Lines on, by Thomas Campbell, 248
One who was a Christ-child, 249
Questions of, as teachers, 250
Restless observation of, 251
Speak gently to, 252
Take care of Christian instruction of, 253
Teach it ideas, not phrases, 254
Tear on cheek of, 255
The, and the "Rising Day", 256
The beginning of discipline for, 257
The way to spoil, or to benefit, 258
Trained by example, 259
Unhappy end of, 260
What it should be taught, 261

Childhood, Indicates the man, 262

Children, A bond of union, etc., 263
Are tattlers, 264
Be not impatient with, 265
Certain care, uncertain comforts, 266
Dear to parents, 267
Dutifulness, foundation, of virtue in, 268
Ease cares, with bliss, 269
Effect of good instruction, and bad example, 270
Enjoy the present, 271
Father's best legacy to, 272
Flatter not, but encourage, 273
Good physiognomists, 274
Dr. Guthrie's opinion, 275
Indulgence to, breeds ingratitude, 276
Industrious habits, better than, etc., 277
Instruction to, better than riches, 278
Japanese, always obedient, 279
Jewels dropped from Heaven, 280
Know friend and foe, 281
Let them learn more than yourself, 282
Like the to-morrow of society, 283
Live in the present, 284
Love, as being fresh from God's hand, 285
Love of, sign of pure heart, 286
More precious than gold, etc., 287
Need models, not critics, 288
Not always indulge, 289
Parents should discipline, 290
Pastime with, 291
Poor men's riches, 292
Praise, effect of, 293
Prevent parents from being selfish, 294
Reflect manners of parents, 295
Should be taught sympathy, 296
Still ours, though in heaven, 297
Teach children to tell the truth, 298
Teach love to, 299
Travelers newly arrived, etc., 300
Treat yours all alike, 301
Usually what their mothers are, 302
What to discountenance in, 303
Will grow up substantially what, 304

Christ, Abide with us, 305
Description of person of, 306
His last supper, a memorial, etc., 307
If you profess Him, do His deeds, 308
Patron of poor and afflicted, 309
The, a carpenter's consolation, 310
Think rightly of Him, 311

Christian, A, is the highest style of, 312
He that is a good man, 313
None, if not Christlike, 314

Christianity, No civilization without, 315

Christmas, When truly merry, 316

Church, A rebuke for staying away from, 317
Bring self to, not your clothes, 318
Cannot alone make good, 319
How it may grow, 320
I was once preaching in Scotland, 321
Late goers to, rebuked, 322
Plan to keep awake in, 323
Remember God is there, 324
Take your children to, 325
Two classes in, 326

Circumstances, Men are dependent on, 327

Civility, Bases of large fortune, 328
What is, 329

Clergyman, In city, what must have, 330

Clock, An ideal example of work, 331

Clergyman, Life of, is it enviable? 332
Should be like engine, etc., 333

College, Enter as early as possible, 334

Companions, Lonely, when musing on those gone, 335
Whom to choose, 336

Company, Pleasant, shortens miles, 337

Compensation, Child and childless, 338
What rich and poor find, 339

Complain, Every one must see daily, 340

Compliment, How usually accompanied, 341
Illuminate me with a ray of, 342

Compliments, Deference, most elegant of, 343
Fishers for, get bites, 344

Conceit, Folly to advise conceited people, 345
Not wise, 346
People conceited need no sympathy, 347
Puffs up, but does not prop, 348
Self, effect of imagination, 349

Conduct, How to discuss, how to decide, 350
Never waver between right and wrong, 351

Confidence, Gives pleasure, etc., 352
No one too sure to miss, 353
Over, indulge not in, 354
Plant of slow growth, 355
Who knows his road, he has, 356
Whom to put it in, 357

Conscience, Good, sold but not bought, 358
Good, worth its cost, 359
A clear, is a good, 360
Quiet makes serene, 361
The chamber of justice, 362
Voice of God, 363
Voice of God in the heart, 364

Consistency, Thou art a, 365

Constancy, None in earthly things, 366

Contention, Yield, rather than dispute, 367
Where two discourse, 368

Contentment, A reason given for, 369
Be not with what you are, 370
Comes from liking what one has, 371
Comes from nature, not the world, 372
Happy he who has, 373
Having bread, hunt no cakes, 374
Less with much, than with little, 375
Little, make it not less, 376
Makes palace of a cottage, 377
Murmur not, 378
One rule for, 379
Rich beg for, poor can give, 380
Rich, poor without, 381
Secret of perfect, 382
What brings, 383
When a happy purchase, 384
Who should be content with anything, 385
Wise, grieve not for, etc., 386
Worth of, known when lost, 387

Conversation, Avoid what in, 388
How to please others in, 389
Its best ingredients, 390
Music of the mind, 391
Never argue in, 392
Never over-bear in, 393
One of the best rules, 394
Say much in few words, 395
To say nothing charmingly, etc., 396
Who usually spend longest time in, 397
With thee conversing, 398

Conversion, Better to turn than to stray, 399

Converses, He who, with no one, 400

Corrupts, As rust, iron, so envy, 401

Corporations, No souls have, etc., 402

Corruption, A tree dropping infections, 403

Cottage, When better than a palace, 404

Counsel, Good, never too late, 405
When easy to give, 406
Who not helped by, 407

Counsellors, In many, safety, 408

Countenance, Cheerful, crowns a welcome, 409
Often more impressive than the tongue, 410
Pleasing, an advantage, 411
Smiling, indicates what? 412

Country, Character of, effect on man, 413
Life in, pleasure of, 414
Love of life, inborn in man, 415
Love of, 416
Which best governed, 417
Who loves not, loves nothing, 418

Courage, Want of, loss by, 419

Courtesy, Always a time for, 420
Background of one's portrait, 421
One-sided, dies soon, 422

Courtship, Men dream in, 423
Their, was carried on in, 424
What is, 425

Covetousness, Keeps the eyes on the ground, 426

Coward, Threatens when, 427

Cradle, The hand that rocks the, 428

Credit, Like looking glass, how? 429
Take care of it, 430
Two good reasons for not giving, 431

Criticism, Fascinating to people of small caliber, 432

Critics, Ready made, etc., 433

Culture, The, of a man, 434

Curiosity, All kneel before its altar, 435

Custom, Forms us all, 436

Daughter, Dear, of old father, 437
Lines on marriage, of an only, 438

Day, Let it not slip uselessly away, 439

Dead, He mourns, etc., 440

Death, Difference of, between old and young, 441
Folly not to prepare for, 442
Should come only with God's command, 443
What men and angels ask, when one dies, 444

Debt, Happiness to be out of, 445

Debts, Avoid paying, by not making, 446

Decay, Wealth and power not immortal, 447

Decision, Of character, requires use, 448

Deeds, Good, who should disclose doing of, 449
Noble, last longer than monuments, 450
Wishes without, worthless, 451

Deformity, Mock not at, 452

Delay, Injures those prepared, 453
Loss by, 454

Delicacy, True, exhibits itself, how, 455

Demeanor, Be natural, etc., 456

Dependents, Duty to, 457

Descent, Honorable, is in all nations, 458

Design, Think on means, etc., 459

Desire, Increased with acquisitions, 460

Destiny, Like ships on ocean, 461

Dial, Sun, inscription for, 462

Difficulties, Rise above your, 463

Digestion, Mostly occurs in the mouth, 464

Dignity, True, exists, how, 465

Disappointment, All have met, and will meet, 466

Discontent, Evidence of, 467
Not easily concealed, 468
Our worst enemy, 469
Where mostly found, 470

Discreet, Be, in all things, and so, 471

Discretion, Thy friend's friend has a friend, 472

Dishonest, The, woe to, etc., 473

Disposition, No man's will alter, 474

Distress, Shut not thy purse strings against, 475
Who feels not for, not a man, 476

Distrustful, Be deceived, rather than, 477

Doctor, The, when some adore him, some slight him, 478

Dog, Did you never observe that, 479
Instance of faithful, 480
Nature preserves his food, 481

Doubt, If in, don't, 482

Doubts, Traitors are, 483

Dream, The orphan boy's, 484

Dreams, Children of night and indigestion, 485

Dress, What woes it may bring, 486
What becomes true feminine beauty, 487

Drink, Avoid, instance of, heathen, 488
A wife's answer, 489
Habit, how cured in one, 490
To escape, never begin, 491

Dun, Derivation of the word, 492

Duty, A path all may tread, 493
Do it fearlessly, 494
Do it, let come what may, 495
I hate to see a thing done by, 496
Whosoever contents, 497
Time for that which one loves, 498

Ear, One should choose a wife, 499
What is told in the, 500

Ease, One at, easily admonishes others, 501
To be paid for by work, 502

Easy, Nothing is, to the unwilling, 503

Eating, How one should eat, 504
Half of what we eat, 505

Economy, Easy chair of age, 506
Effect of not practicing, 507
Exercise of, no disgrace, 508
In abundance, prepare for scarcity, 509
Lay up for rainy day, 510
Like savings bank, 511
Practice in prosperity, 512
Save for age and want, 513
When too late, 514
When to spend, when to spare, 515

Education, Every man must find his own, 516
A boy was compelled, 516a

Efforts, All difficult, nearly, before easy, 517

Eloquence, In tone, eye, etc., as in words, 518

Emotion, External signs of, 519

Employment, A guard against the evil one, 520
To be employed, is to be, 521

Enemy, Do good to, as a friend, 522

Ever too near, 523

Englishmen, Cold to strangers,--Dr. Johnson, 524

Envy, Born without, mark of what, 525
There would be little, if, etc., 526

Equals, Where all should be, 527

Equivocation, First cousin to lie, 528

Error, Correct immediately, 529
Beware of, 530
Who makes not, makes no good hits, 531

Etiquette, Good taste rejects, excessive nicety, 532

Events, Preceded by certain signs, 533

Evil, Avoid suggestion of, 534
Man endowed with power to conquer, 535

Eye, Opens and closes, revealing, etc., 536
Sees not itself, etc., 537
Silent speech of, 538

Eyes, More accurate than ears, 539
Of old, like memories of old, how? 540
Those of other people, effect, 541
Windows of the soul, 542

Exaggeration, Weakens statements, 543
Who is prone to, 544

Example, Given, must be tolerated, 545

Examples, Noble, excite to noble deeds, 546

Excuse, Accuses maker of, 547

Exercise, Dispenses with physic, 548

Experience, Can teach even a fool, 549
Lip-wisdom, which, 550

Extravagance, Keeps pace with prosperity, 551

Face, Effect of clouded, 552
Pictures thoughts, etc., 553
Sometimes a letter of credit, 554

Fail, The surest way not to, 555

Faith, Beautiful instance of, 556
Bridge from earth to heaven, 557
Compliment to be trusted, 558
Effect of want of, in no one, 559
Trust not that, once broken, 560

Faithfulness, Encouraged by trustfulness, 561

Falsehood, Reward thereof, 562
Telling of, like what, 563

Familiarity, Mistake to indulge in, 564

Family, Little world in itself, 565
Man happiest with his, 566
Reunion of, 567

Farewell, A sound that makes us linger, 568
How to say it, 569

Farmer, He alone has a home, 570
Must not sit in the shade, etc., 571

Father, Beautiful picture of, 572
Love of, reward, 573
One known without being seen, 574

Fault, Confession makes half amends, 575
Not to repent of a, 576

Faultless, Ne'er was, is, nor will be, 577

Faults, A man's and his neighbor's, 578
Better find one's own, than, etc., 579
Of great men, forgotten, 580
Of others, when we may blame, 581
The greatest of, 582
Wink at wee, 583

Favor, How to ask one, 584
Pleasure in conferring, 585

Favoritism, Effect of, on children, 586

Favors, One likes better to, 587

Feast, What makes the best, 588

Feasting, May make fasting, 589
Accustom early in your youth, 590

Feelings, When too fine, 591

Fidelity, True as needle to pole, etc., 592

Fireside, My own, 593

Fish, All that a, drinks, 594

Flattery, What kind of, hurts, 595
No quality will get a man, 596

Flowers, Children of the meadows, 597
Daughters of earth and sun, 598
Effect of, on the world, 599
Enjoy the air they breathe, 600
How many a, 601
I never cast a, away, 602
Pledges of fruit, 603

Fool, Advice to, effect of, 604
Everyone is sometimes, 605
How discovered, 606
One needs wit to deal with, 607
One who says he is always right, is, 608
White hairs ill become, 609

Fools, If all wore white caps, what then? 610
Tell what they intend to do, 611

Force, Where it prevails, right dies, 612

Foresight, Be not stingy of seed corn, 613

Forest, An idyl of, 614

Forget, Ability to, token of greatness, 615

Forgiveness, Asked, with repentance, 616
Easier to whom, 617
God-like, etc., 618
How beautiful, etc., 619
Lasts while we love, 620
Lines on, 621
Not given, destroys forgiveness, 622
Not of the world, 623
Of part only of wrong, what, 624
Try its effect, 625
Who do, and who do not, forgive, 626

Fortune, Change of, dangerous, 627
Continued good, not security, 628
Gives too much to, 629
Good sometimes without seeking, 630
Good that comes seldom, 631
Its vicissitude, 632
Hardest gained, longest kept, 633
Knocks once at every door, 634
Let it not elate or depress, 635
Manners sometimes make, 636
May change in a day, 637
Often harmful to virtue, 638
Smiles on those who labor, 639
Whil'st favor'd, friends, you smiled, 640

Free-thinker, One rebuked, 641

Freedom, Once gained, hard to, 642
Weeps, when, 643

Friend, Attack not, but defend absent, 644
Be mine, teach me to be thine, 645
Flattering, like one's shadow, 646
Hand of an old, 647
How to make a, 648
If you have one, be happy, 649
In misfortune, go quickly to, 650
Leave not, in adversity, 651
Lose not old, to gain new, 652
Lost by disputing with, 653
Lost by lending money to, 654
Love thine, 655
More dishonorable to distrust, etc., 656
No life complete without, 657
None, who ceases to be for slight causes, 658
Not hidden in adversity, 659
Oblige him to-day, 660
Old, the best mirror, 661
Shake not off, 662
Stab from, hard to heal, 663
Tells not truth, when, 664
When sure of, 665
Who never good, 666
Who sticks closer than brother, 667
Wink not at his vices, 668
World a wilderness without, 669

Friends, Absolute, rare, 670
But few on earth, 671
Due to choice, 672
Equals make the best, 673
False, are like our shadows, 674
Few real in the world, 675
Gained by good manners, 676
How lost, 677
How to choose, 678
Let us make the best of our, 679
Like melons, why, 680
Like titled husbands, when, 681
Make new, keep old, 682
My treasures are my, 683
Necessary to life, 684
Old, not to be disdained, 685
Paucity of, on earth, 686
Poor man's assets, 687
Purchase not, by, 688
Recognized and loved in heaven, 689
Separated by a gift kept back, 690
Strange to say, I am the only, 691
There is no living without, 692
True, anticipate wants, 693
Unexpected, spring up, 694
Where many, where few, 695

Friendship, A severe test of, 696
Contend which shall have most, 697
Cultivate your neighbor's, 698
In love may end, 699
Renewed requires more care, 700
Keep it in constant repair, 701
Killed by suspicion, 702
Make not with knave, 703
Needs not years to prove, 704
Nothing purer than first, 705
Permanency of, depends, etc., 706
Quickly made, quickly ended, 707
Rare is true love, true, is still, 708
Real, like what, 709
Shown by help, not by pity, 710
Soothes affliction's darkest hour, 711
Summer, drops off in adversity, 712
The higher, 713
True, great blessing, 714
True, is like sound health, 715
Who fit for, 716
Who unworthy of, 717
Who worthy of, will, etc., 718
Whose to value, 719
Worth more than hate, 720

Fruit, Good, never comes from, 721

Fun, Nothing like it sometimes, 722

Future, Groping for the door of, 723
If you would have, 724
The, does not come from, 725
To be met without fear, 726

Gain, Difficult, better than with ease, 727
Has oft, with treacherous hopes, 728
One must give, to get, 729
Pleasant odor, has, 730
Prefer loss to unjust, 731
When loss, 732

Gains, No pains, no, 733

Generosity, Justice and, 734
Justice should precede, 735
Should not exceed ability, 736

Gentleman, A good test of, 737
Coat, makes not, 738
Good rule to tell one by, 739
Main characteristics of, 740
Real and artificial, 741
Teach man to be a, 742
True, who is, 743

Gift, Donor should not speak of, 744
Give freely to him that, 745
Make with smile, not frown, 746
To make, delicate art, 747
Unexpected, most welcome, 748

Gifts, Mental, who in possession of, 749
The best, to man, 750

Girl, Dying, lines to her lover, 751
Some good advice to, 752

Girls, How they should be educated, 753

Give, No one can, 754

Gladness, Not to all who dance, 755

Glass, The hour, emblem of life, 756

God, Greatness of, 757
His love for man, 758
Presence of, shown by blade of grass, 759
The Father's love, 760
The more a man denies himself, 761
The love of, 762
Who serves, will come to Him, 763
Will meet one, who comes, 764

Gold, Key of, opens doors, 765
The golden rule in verse, 766

Golf, A rival to matrimony, instance of, 767

Good, All, comes to him who waits and works, 768
Doing, man responsible for, 769
Doing, is the only, 770
Pleasure of doing, wears not out, 771
Received, makes one tender of evil, 772
Seeking others', 773
What is the difference between, 774
When, comes too late, 775

Good-bye, Better than farewell, etc., 776

Goodness, The sign of, 777

Good-night, To all and each, 778

Gospel, The cross is the guarantee, 779

Gossip, Reasons for avoiding, 780
See Leviticus XIX, 16, 781
Tale-bearers, equal tale-makers, 782

Gossips, The funnels of conversation, 783
When they ought to endure misery, 784

Governors, If families have no sons devoted to, 785

Governs, He best who, 786

Grace, One, by Burns, 787
Saying at meals, instance of, 788

Gratitude, Expect not, from the selfish, 789
Fine expression of, 790
God judges one's, how, 791
How sometimes mistaken, 792
Look above with, 793
Naught so becomes man, 794
What presents make longest, 795
Where found, and not found, 796

Great, Desertion of the, 797

Grief, Excessive, not pleasing to God, 798
God sure to help in, 799
More than necessary, before necessary, 800
Shown, excites sympathy, 801
They mourn, who mourn without witnesses, 802
Time will soften, 803
When one mourns indeed, 804

Grumbling, Rebuked, instance of, 805

Guilt, Cowardly always, 806

Guthrie, Thomas, an anecdote, 807
Thomas, to his son, 807a

Ha, Contrasted with Ah, 808

Habit, Bred by use, 809
Drink, how to correct, 810
Form good, bad will die, 811
Like a cable, 812
No man free, who is a slave of, 813
Not resisted, becomes necessary, 814
Test of truth with some, 815

Habits, Evil, change innocence to guilt, 816
Gather strength like the seas, 817
Hard to make, and break, 818
Tastes change, inclinations never, 819
To strip off, flaying alive, 820

Hand, To stop the, is the way to, 821

Hands, Eloquence of, 822
The most beautiful, 823

Happiness, Consists in what? 824
Consists in contentment, 825
Consists not in, 826
Cottage can hold enough for palace, 827
Earthly of man, when complete, 828
Great in lowly station, 829
Made, by making others happy, 830
Of a happy couple, 831
Reflective, like light, 832
Rejoice in that of others, 833
Unmixed, not found, 834

Hate, Hurts the hater most of all, 835
It is the nature of the human, 836

Haughtiness, Freezes those below us, 837
Two may gain by it, 838

Health, Appreciated, when, 839
Be not too busy to care for, 840
Better than a kingdom, 841
Better to have, than wealth, 842
Necessary to duty and pleasure, 843
Thou chiefest good, 844
The only way for a rich man to be in, 845

Heart, An innocent, 846
Broken, instance of, 847
Every, has its secret sorrow, 848
Feeling, parting, tale of many a, 849
Great, has no room for wrongs, 850
Human, God enters, 851
Instance of royal, in poor woman, 852
Is it guided by instinct? 853
Most bitter trial of, 854
None in which errors are not, 855
Of another, how opened, 856
Of woman, most tender when pious, 857
Overrules the head, 858
Rewarded according to merit, 859
Sad, sometimes does good work, 860
Sad tale of many a human, 861
Small, but world cannot satisfy, 862
The, resembles the ocean, 863
The turnpike road to, 864
The merry, goes all the day, 865

Hearts, Dissensions between, 866
Men and women led by, 867

Heaven, Beautiful beyond compare, 868
Let others seek earth's, 868a
Debts to, sometimes disregarded, 869
Delights of, 870
Faith the road to, 871
Not the property of the rich, 872
"That better land," where is it? 873
Plants even look up to, 874

Help, Give, even to lame dogs, 875
What should be given, 876

History, Is little more than, 877

Home, Best ornament of, the owner, 878
Cling to it, from the Greek, 879
Definitions of, 880
Friends, ornaments of, 881
God's share in, 882
Grandest of all, 883
Home-keeping hearts happiest, 884
Husband, pleasure to, 885
Incomplete without books, 886
Know yours first, then other lands, 887
Man without, is like, etc., 888
Many a, is nothing but a, 889
More delightful than travel, 890
None without hearts, 891
A man unconnected, 892
None without love, 893
No place like, 894
Of every land the pride, 895
Return to, happy when, 896
Some things which prevent owning one, 897
Sweet to approach, etc., 898
Though small, a palace, 899
True nature of, 900
Wanderer's return to, 901
What makes, 902

Homeless, Beware of those who are, 903
I am as, 904

Honesty, A reason for giving good measure, 905
To be honest and faithful, 906
Commercial, obligatory, 907
Needs no protestations of, 908
Reward of, 909
When to count our spoons, 910

Honor, Birthplace is not, etc., 911
He, the Duke of Devonshire, 912
Injury to, 913
Instance of, 914
Of what to father, what to son, 915
When overpaid, 916

Hook or Crook, By, derivation of, 917

Hope, A charming word, 918
Always better, than despair, 919
Disappointment tracks step of, 920
Effect of living on, 921
Finest sort of courage, 922
Loss of, effect of, 923
None, breaks hearts, 924
Oft ends in hope, 925
Setting of, like setting sun, 926
Sometimes a delusion, 927
There is, if we live, 928
Where, in death, John Knox, 929

Hospitality, May give joy and honor, 930

Hours, All our sweetest, 931

House, Changed after absence, 932
Children, light of, 933
Mended, often more costly than new, 934
None like God's out-of-doors, 935
Not to go uninvited, 936

Houses, Built to live in, etc., 937

Household, What is an unhappy one, 938

Humanity, Goes with religion, 939
Our, were a poor thing, but for the, 940

Humble, Full the, there is, 941

Humility, Full head most humble, 942
Root of virtue, 943

Hunger, Mother of impatience, etc., 944
Who must, 945

Hungry, The full stomach cannot, 946
Wait, a hard word to the, 947

Husband, Excellencies of a, 948
Interests of, same as wife's, 949

Hymn, What one hymn accomplished, 950

I, The letter, worthy of aversion, when, 951
What am I? Naught, etc., 952

Ideas, Like beards, grown men have them, 953

Idleness, Brings need, 954
Desertion and suicide, 955
Idle man has no time for work, 956
Increases, if indulged, 957
Love, cures, 958
Lose labor, rather than time in, 959
Must thank itself, if barefoot, 960
Waste not my spring in, 961

Ignorance, For want of asking questions, 962
Often a voluntary misfortune, 963

Ills, Bear known, rather than risk unknown, 964
Of man, his own seeking, 965

Imitation, Sign of esteem, 966

Immortality, Man's longing after, 967

Impertinence, Who guilty of, 968

Importance, Self, as of, etc., 969

Imports, Should be more than exports, 970

Improvement, All not susceptible of, 971

Inaction, It is better to have nothing to do, 972

Inclinations, Men of all ages, have, 973

Income, Carry not all on the back, 974
Our, are like our shoes, 975

Inconstancy, Expressed by Shakespeare, 976

Inconsistency, Mankind made up of, 977

Indecision, Lose this day loitering, 978

Independence, To be loved, 979
If any man can do without, 980

Indigestion, Financial, sign of, 981

Individuals, Qualities of, 982

Industry, Makes the best gown, 983

Inevitable, The, bear with a smile, 984

Infants, Smiles of, 985
The first joy it brings, 986

Infirmities, Blame not one, for, 987

Influence, Personal, good result of, 988
It is reported that a, 989

Ingratitude, Common to hate benefactors, 990

Inheritance, Thine, how to enter on it, 991

Injuries, Write thine in the dust, 992

Injury, Creates suspicion, 993
Noblest remedy for, 994
Revenge of, forgiveness, 995
Who hurts another, injures himself, 996

Ink, Power of, 997

Innocence, Brings gaiety, 998
Foundation of real courage, 999
Narrow, if only according to law, 1000

Innocent, Better to be deceived, than to accuse the, 1001

Insult, Easy to take, sign of vulgarity, 1002
Harder to forgive, than injury, 1003

Integrity, Political, instance of, 1004
Preferred to eloquence, 1005
Shown by conduct, not by words, 1006

Intellect, One of dull, 1007
God has placed no limits to the exercise of, 1008

Intolerance, Index of weakness, 1009

Irresolution, Don't stand upon, 1010

Jewels, A wife's dearest, 1011
Children are mother's, 1012

Joy, At birth, and death, 1013
Departed, remembrance of, painful, 1014
I cannot speak, tears so, 1015
If shared, doubles pleasure, 1016

Johnson, Samuel, on marriage, 1017

Joke, Risk not one with ill-bred, 1018

Judge, A conscientious, 1019

Judgment, At fault, in young and old, 1020
Give benefit of doubt, 1021
Hear gently, judge kindly, 1022
How we shall be judged, 1023
Vicious, if based on evidence of one side, 1024

Just, Any time proper to say what is, 1025

Justice, Ever alive, 1026
Habits of, valuable possession, 1027
What its standard, 1028

Kindness, A, do it now, 1029
Binds society together, 1030
Converts more sinners than zeal, 1031
Delayed, destroys, 1032
Do not remind, of, 1033
How to multiply,--Franklin, 1034
Induced by sickness, and sadness, 1035
Instance of, by Indian chief, 1036
Little acts of, like what, 1037
Never proclaim doing of, 1038
No dearth of, 1039
Not to be repaid like money, 1040
Reward of, instance, 1041
Show, even to insects, 1042
Valuable part of business of life, 1043
Victory of, over injury, 1044
What to forget, what to remember, 1045
Who knows how to return, 1046
Write in marble, 1047

Kiss, Definition of a, 1048
Not always touches the heart, 1049
Of welcome, pleasant, 1050

Kissing, Some say that, 1051

Knowledge, A necessary retreat, 1052
Ask young people for, 1053
Gained by seeking, 1054
Is not gained on a, 1055
Let others light candle of, at yours, 1056
Man of, may be a fool, 1057
No one man has all, 1058
Planted when young, 1059
Practice, necessary to, 1060
Remember very well when at Oxford, 1061

Knox, John, eulogy on, 1062

Labor, Beauty and blessedness of, 1063
Finishes what genius begins, 1064
Fruit of, sweetest pleasure, 1065
Man's most lasting friend, 1066
Must have relaxation, 1067
Those most enjoy life who do, 1068

Laborer, How he works by the day, 1069

Lady, Young, advice to, 1070

Lamplighter, Scotch student as, 1071

Langsyne, Sweet to remember, 1072

Language, Origin of, 1073

Laugh, A, first of child, 1074
Good, sunshine in a home, 1075
Instrument of happiness, 1076

Laughing, Overmuch, have aching heart, 1077

Laughter, Contrasted with the smile, 1078
Not always proof of ease, 1079

Law, Avoid, by agreeing, 1080
Case, what to do with it, 1081
Delay of, etc., 1082
Easy to enter, hard to escape, 1083
Folly of going to, 1084
Gain and loss by, 1085
Lawyer's office, what it is, 1086
Requisites for going to, 1087
Suit in, uncertainty of, 1088
Taught in one lesson, 1089
Who gets spoils of, 1090

Lawyer, Leaving a margin for, 1091
Lines on, 1092

Lawyers, How the gowns of, are lined, 1093
Like shears, cut what is between, 1094
Some convert poor advice into good coin, 1095

Laziness, Begins in cobwebs, ends in chains, 1096

Learned, May be taught, 1097

Learning, Chief art of, 1098
Not entailed, gained by study, 1099
One pound of learning requires, 1100
Who swallows quick, 1101

Leaves, Autumn, lines on, 1102

Lee's, General, reply, 1103
Opinion of British officer, 1104

Legacy, Who watches for, like a raven, 1105

Leisure, Sweet, if earned, 1106

Letters, Often cause regret, 1107
Sometimes warmly sealed, coldly opened, 1108

Liberality, What one gives, is forever his own, 1109
The office of, consisteth in, 1110

Libraries, Wardrobes of literature, 1111

Lie, Cannot stand, but can fly, 1112
Equivocation is, 1113
One consequence of, 1114
One, must be, 1115