Life and Literature

INDEX

Reading edition

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

Life A journey who may direct in 1116

A term of, is set 1117

Better sunny, than to boast of money 1118

City, produces effeminacy of habit, etc. 1119

Different ages of 1120

Direction of 1121

Divinity shapes it 1122

Domestic, the husband 1123

Eternal, only candidates for election 1124

Every period has its prejudices 1125

Forethought wins in 1126

Giants of, what are 1127

Happy on sunny side of street 1128

How to live twice 1129

How to part with 1130

How short is human 1131

Human, what is 1132

"I did," and "I didn't," 1133

If dark, still the sun is behind the clouds 1134

Lies within the present 1135

Live day by day for others 1136

Look before thy feet, gaze not at stars 1137

Make not sport of it 1138

Mission in, for everyone 1139

Only small portion of, enjoyed 1140

Our little, is rounded with a 1141

Represented by newspaper 1142

The acts of this 1143

Three whose lives are not 1144

Too short to nurse wrongs in 1145

Trifles make up sum of 1146

The happiest 1147

We find in it, what we put in 1148

What the sweetest in 1149

When we learn limits of 1150

Listen Be always ready to 1151

Listener Poor, who is 1152

Litigation Uncertainty of, certain 1153

Little By little, if oft done 1154

Loneliness What most lonely 1155

Looks The three, of men 1156

Lost The things, where we seek it 1157

Love Appreciation necessary to 1158

At first sight, often regretted 1159

Childish, sweetly expressed 1160

Compared with indifference 1161

Fault mine, if it ceases 1162

To a man, the disappointment 1163

Happiness of existence 1164

How to part with 1165

I know not, unless it be 1166

If loved by man, loved by God 1167

If there's delight in 1168

Justifies poetic exaggeration 1169

Letters of those we 1170

Life without, day without sunshine 1171

Light of life dies with 1172

Like a nail, driven out by another 1173

Like the moon, how 1174

Loved one, not forgotten 1175

Maiden in—600 B. C. 1176

Men easily duped by 1177

More than his share 1178

No disguise can conceal 1179

Nothing sweeter than 1180

Oft maintained by wealth 1181

Produces amiability 1182

Promotes schemes of life 1183

Secret of obtaining 1184

Sees no fault till 1185

Tragedy of fickle 1186

True, cannot forget 1187

What a change it makes 1188

What we love girls and boys for 1189

When loveliest 1190

Will die, if not expressed 1191

Luther Martin, and his friends 1192

Was remarkable for 1193

Luxury Cost of, may help industrious poor 1194

Magnanimous He who is too much afraid of 1195

Maiden Lament of, lines on 1196

Man A compliment to 1197

A truly great, never 1198

Advances or recedes 1199

Amiable, makes many friends 1200

Angry, condemns himself 1201

An old, of acute observation, etc. 1202

A volume, if one knows how to read him 1203

Best, who is 1204

Burns, his recognition of 1205

By X. B. Saintine 1206

Character goes with him 1207

Child of his own deeds 1208

Assumptions of 1209

Deeds, standard of merit of 1210

Description of 1211

Direct not, who will himself choose 1212

Dissatisfied, most to be pitied 1213

Drunk, quarrel not with 1214

Each may learn from other 1215

End of wicked and righteous 1216

Exalted, seen from afar 1217

Failure of, do not destroy respect for 1218

Firmness is for 1219

Forgetting good intentions, what? 1220

Fully appreciated by equal or superior 1221

Great, a good listener 1222

Greatest glory, rising when he falls 1223

Be content with the day as it is 1224

Honest, believed without oath 1225

Honest, tied by a thread 1226

How to make true 1227

If disliked, speak not of 1228

Impossible to please every 1229

Instinctive desire to see distinguished 1230

It is not what he has, nor 1231

Knows not the future 1232

Like horse, esteemed for qualities 1233

Looks aloft and beholds what 1234

Married, best club for 1235

Measures other, at first meeting 1236

More inhuman than wolves, when 1237

Must begin as inferior to become superior 1238

Never speak of a 1239

None always wise 1240

Obstinate, held by opinions 1241

Of high station, many blasts to shake 1242

Of one idea, not to be reasoned with 1243

Old, life like what 1244

Perfected by trials 1245

Pleasant, described 1246

Poor, for want of, or from too many friends 1247

Poor, unnoticed 1248

Produced by nature, not by art 1249

Real, finds not excuses for self 1250

Should not be alone 1251

Silent, sometimes deep and dangerous 1252

Social creature 1253

Strive not too anxiously 1254

Swollen by prosperity, shrunk by adversity 1255

The difference between 1256

The unpunctual 1257

Though surly, may be honest 1258

True, never frets about place in the world 1259

He had nothing and was 1260

Weak, easily moulded 1261

Well bred, acknowledges a fault 1262

Well bred, always sociable 1263

What did he leave at death 1264

When act of equals, angel's 1265

When he may be known truly 1266

When to make a world for himself 1267

Who deserves name of 1268

Who excels, sought after 1269

Who masters the world 1270

Who thinks, governs, etc. 1271

Wise, shapes himself to environments 1272

Working, hunger enters not his house 1273

Manners Coldness of, freezes 1274

Contrasted with character 1275

Mirror man's image 1276

People with good, quiet, etc. 1277

Shadows of virtue 1278

Vulgar people cannot be still 1279

Want of, in society, unpardonable 1280

Mansion Be not inferior to thine 1281

Marriage A bloom or a blight 1282

A maiden's trust in 1283

Advice on, by Themistocles 1284

Be careful before 1285

Bond should be broken only by death 1286

Can two live as cheaply as one? 1287

Choice in—Samuel Johnson 1288

Choose not alone a proper 1289

Effect on romance and history 1290

Like public feast 1291

Like shears, how 1292

Marry in your own rank 1293

Newly wedded, rule for 1294

One seldom weds first love 1295

Pious elder said to his son 1296

Reason for many unhappy ones 1297

Should be state of equality 1298

The dying moments of a single life 1299

The treasures of the deep are not so precious 1300

Two views—beware 1301

Vow, lines on 1302

Wed for character, not money 1303

Married A girl should look happy 1304

Marshall Chief Justice, anecdote of 1305

Master Be sometimes blind and deaf 1306

If your own 1307

Our, is our 1308

Matrimony Knot tied with tongue, etc. 1309

Look for a help-mate in 1310

Sum of happiness when 1311

Two views of 1312

Maxims From the Persian 1313

Meals The, which are eaten in 1314

Meat How poor, and rich get 1315

Melancholy Johnson said of 1316

Memory All complain, but not of judgment 1317

Ideas registered by attention 1318

Prayer on the subject of 1319

Sweetest, when without regret 1320

Men Better to be taught, than fed 1321

Great, arise from the people 1322

How hard to teach some 1323

Middle class of, show nation's character 1324

Unlucky 1325

Study men rather than books 1326

Wise, care not for what they cannot have 1327

Young, apt to overrate 1328

Young, the trouble with most 1329

Mercy Anecdote of Queen Victoria 1330

Door of, when open 1331

Lean to, if in doubt 1332

Man, the child of 1333

Not forgotten, the deeds of 1334

Reward of him who shows 1335

Teach your sons to love it 1336

Weaves the veil of futurity 1337

We pray for, let us render 1338

Merit Not always rewarded 1339

Success of 1340

Merry All not who dance lightly 1341

Metaphysics Peculiar definition of 1342

Method Teaches to win time 1343

Methodists Noteworthy characteristic of 1344

Might If right, right not upright 1345

Mind A weak one, how effected 1346

A well-governed, learns in time 1347

Do not overtask 1348

Effect on, of small matters 1349

If uncertain, impulse directs 1350

It cannot be too deeply 1351

Narrowness of, is often 1352

Noble, spurns idle pratings 1353

Some know their minds and yet not their hearts 1354

Steadiness of, a blessing 1355

The, a man's kingdom 1356

The face is the 1357

True woman admires more than wealth 1358

Untraveled—what is 1359

Youthful, like wax 1360

Minds Small, hurt by small things 1361

Noblest are easiest 1362

Ministers Of God, chief duty of 1363

Mirth Ounce of, worth more, etc. 1364

Mischief Man no match for woman in 1365

Most just is it that he who 1366

Miser Constantine's lesson to 1367

Grows rich, by seeming poor 1368

Pays too much for his gold 1369

Misery No thoroughly occupied man has 1370

Misfortune Do not bear, till it comes 1371

Repine not at 1372

Mistake Anyone may make, fools stick to 1373

Avoid, rather than correct 1374

Quarrel not with slight 1375

There are few, very few that 1376

Mistakes Teach impressive lessons 1377

Young heads are giddy 1378

Model Copy not self 1379

Moderation Lines on,—Cowper 1380

Modulation Tis not enough the voice be 1381

Money Abundance of, ruins 1382

A curse, if not earned 1383

Complain of, want of 1384

It cannot change blood 1385

Lender of, his moods and tenses 1386

Love of, root of much devotion 1387

Man's master, or slave, is 1388

Many heart-aches, behind plenty of 1389

Not found in purses of others 1390

No time to waste, in making 1391

Obtained by work 1392

Power of 1393

Silences the world 1394

Moon Lines on,—Croly 1395

Lines on,—Longfellow 1396

Morning Brings cool reflection 1397

The, hour has 1398

Mother A royal, obedience of her children 1399

Child and, Danish proverb 1400

Daring of a 1401

Funeral of a 1402

Hallow her memory 1403

Heart of, child's school-room 1404

Heart, reached through child 1405

Helpful comforter 1406

Her history is written in her child 1407

Moulds the man 1408

Old, duty of children to 1409

On death of,—Cowper 1410

Ounce of, worth more, etc. 1411

Results of her examples 1412

Sorrows of 1413

Story of that of Pomponius Atticus 1414

The, laughter of child, sweet to 1415

True estimate of 1416

Turf, from grave of 1417

Whom can we better trust than? 1418

Music Heart not touched by, forlorn 1419

Loosens heart, bound by care 1420

No, is so charming to my ear 1421

Sometimes in a footstep 1422

Nature Errs not, though art may 1423

Exists by motion 1424

Good and ill, contrasted 1425

Good, beauty of 1426

Good, preserves good looks 1427

Laws of, man cannot override 1428

One follows the inclinations of his own 1429

Pleasure of mingling with 1430

Who can paint like 1431

Natures Vulgar, handle firmly 1432

Neglect Unmerited, a sharp sting 1433

Neighbor Profitable to know him 1434

Put not off obliging 1435

Very few live by choice 1436

Neighbors Duty towards 1437

Nest A bird's 1438

New There is nothing new under the sun 1439

News He bold is, who brings 1440

Nicknames Which stick best 1441

Night Brings coolness and counsel 1442

The outlaw's day 1443

Time for rest 1444

No Learn to say 1445

Nobody Who is, in the commonwealth 1446

Who is, thinks everybody else is 1447

Nothing By doing, we learn to 1448

Novelty The young are fond of 1449

Numbers Easily impress us 1450

Oats Reply to Dr. Johnson's definition of 1451

Obedience Most important word in education 1452

One of most beautiful things 1453

Wise, modest 1454

Obligation Haste to discharge, sort of ingratitude 1455

Most men remember, etc. 1456

Published, paid 1457

Obscurity People newly out of, etc. 1458

Obstinacy Is will asserting itself 1459

Occupation Thrice happy those who have 1460

A man should follow 1461

Ocean The abode of the British 1462

Odd Peculiar people, disagreeable 1463

Offense How people oftenest offend 1464

Office Power of, dog even obeyed in 1465

Bad man in, public calamity 1466

Omissions No less than commissions 1467

Opinion It has been shrewdly said 1468

No liberal man 1469

Opportunities Often lost by want of self-confidence 1470

Past gone, future may never come 1471

Opportunity Let slip, proof of imbecility 1472

Loss of, what lost by 1473

Master of human destiny 1474

Not seized, flies away 1475

Poor use of, instance 1476

Often lost by deliberation 1477

Take the current when it serves 1478

The, neglected 1479

To-day it is offered 1480

Oppressors There are sharks in the ocean 1481

Orators All, are dumb, when beauty 1482

Parent Ambitious, misdirect children 1483

Be not ashamed, if yours, humble 1484

Effect of neglect of children, by 1485

Remember not toil endured for 1486

Parents Good conduct of, blesses children 1487

If fools, apt to make children so 1488

We know not their worth, till lost 1489

Parting Like ships on the sea 1490

Proves a kind of anguish 1491

Passion Control yours 1492

Nothing like silence 1493

Past Comes not back, witness three things 1494

Let by-gones be 1495

Stirs man more than future 1496

Path Beaten, safe one 1497

Pearl Often hidden in ugly shell 1498

Pen The tongue of the mind 1499

People How to wake them 1500

Perfection Not in this world 1501

Permanence As the sun's shadow shifts 1502

Perseverance Makes mole-hills of mountains 1503

Scottish, proverbial 1504

Persistence Necessity of 1505

Petitions Strengthened by gold 1506

Philanthropy Its satisfaction 1507

True instance of 1508

Phillips Wendall, anecdote of 1509

Physician First patient, etc. 1510

His best fee producer 1511

Real, of mankind 1512

Satire upon 1513

Physic For the most part, is 1514

Pity Godlike, acted on 1515

Plants Fresh and fair, when 1516

Pleasure Brevity of 1517

Dignity in, as well as in business 1518

Greatest, what is 1519

How made pleasant 1520

Makes acquaintances 1521

Oft sweetest in memories 1522

Sometimes comes from flattery 1523

The most delicate and sensible 1524

Pneumonia One way of avoiding 1525

Poets Modern, mix water with milk 1526

Politeness An essential ingredient of 1527

Instance of, in small boy 1528

Instance of true 1529

Natural to delicate natures 1530

True, everywhere the same 1531

Politics Are now 1532

Poor Few except the poor, feel for them 1533

Folks' wisdom 1534

He that thinks he can 1535

Poor and content 1536

Speak gently to 1537

The, be mindful of 1538

The, kings when 1539

The, wait not to relieve 1540

The, why they complain 1541

The world avoids 1542

Portraits Husband and wife, mottoes under 1543

Position Not every easy, is soft 1544

Poverty Cannot be hidden 1545

Grows heavier when 1546

Is in want of much 1547

Poor man resembles fiddler, etc. 1548

Power Love of, instinct of human heart 1549

Often goes before talent 1550

Often silences the law 1551

Partnership with men in, not safe 1552

Practice Strange, if what one preaches 1553

Praise Best diet for us 1554

Just, a debt 1555

Love of, in every heart 1556

Of self, contents most 1557

One who can be trusted, deserves 1558

Self, a bad sign 1559

Sweetest of all sounds 1560

Use of indiscreet, when 1561

Prayer Brings all blessings, instance 1562

For absent 1563

House, in which there is none, has no roof 1564

Key to God's mercies 1565

Pray with heart, etc. 1566

Quaint old, a 1567

Preacher As an ambassador 1568

Seeking fame, finds folly 1569

Prejudice Opinions, most violent 1570

Prejudices Who full of 1571

Present Enjoy it 1572

Make it sweet 1573

Presents Many delight more in 1574

Pretence Makes people nothing 1575

Prevention An ounce of, is worth 1576

Pride Art thou an exalted being? 1577

Breeds no friends 1578

Never be too much elated 1579

Superior to adversity 1580

Principles Be unable to forsake 1581

More precious than accomplishments 1582

Procrastination Effect of 1583

Professions Without practice, worthless 1584

Profit Not always an honor 1585

Progress None for the slothful 1586

Promise Deeds should equal 1587

No piety in keeping unjust 1588

Obligation of 1589

Promises To keep, make not many 1590

Property When not wise to give away 1591

Prophecy Fullfilment of a 1592

Propose Let those who 1593

Prospects Distant, please us 1594

Prosperity Brings friends 1595

Creates selfishness often 1596

Hard work, the road to 1597

How obtained 1598

In ascending hill of, meet no friend 1599

Makes friends 1600

Makes friends and enemies 1601

Not always proof of rectitude 1602

Shows weak mind, how 1603

Proselyte We love a 1604

Proverbs Japanese 1605

Punctuality A characteristic of politeness 1606

Begets confidence and respect 1607

It is neither polite nor, 1607a

Lord Nelson's rule 1608

Want of, dishonesty 1609

Want of, mark of little minds 1610

Purposes If not hatched, they decay 1611

Purse Consumption of 1612

Empty, calls for a sweet tongue 1613

Not to oversee workmen, is to 1614

Quakerwise Instance of 1615

Quarrel Best time to 1616

Leave open the door of reconciliation 1617

To, with one person 1618

Quarrels Have nothing to do with 1619

Question Should be rational 1620

Rain Ideas of pessimist and optimist of 1621

Rank Quote not thy high birth 1622

Reading Attempt not too much 1623

Reason Makes a man a prince, etc. 1624

When a man has not a good 1625

Reciprocity Good rule of 1626

Rule of, by Confucius 1627

Recreation Necessary to human nature 1628

Regret Folly to shiver over 1629

Relaxation Above, produces 1630

Religion Costs nothing, does nothing 1631

Doubt not blessings of 1632

Good, if good for all days 1633

Is knowledge of what? 1634

It is rare to see a rich man 1635