Abilities, the limits of our, 2.
Ability, to conceal one's, 5.

to have more ambition than, 104.
A-borrowing goes a-sorrowing, 588.
Abroad, saint, and a devil, 4038.
Absence, conspicuous by its, 10.
I dote on his very, 11.
is not of matter, 9.
Accident, the, of an accident, 4089.
Accidents, chapter of, 13.

rule men, 760.
Accusations, man's, of himself, 4951.
Ace, most coldest that ever turned
up, 1960.

Acquaintance, decrease it upon
better, 3503.

liberty of choosing one's, 15.

Act on interest, 4485.

no, is safe that does not, 33.
Acting, finest achievements in the

world of, 24.

Admiration or friendship, 4600.

or reverence, 4785.
we must learn, 55.
Admirably, none can teach, if not,
5334.

Admire, always like those who, us,

54.

not always like those whom we,

51.

Adulation is not of more service to,
1568.

Advantage, social and political, is
opportunity, 3900.

Adversaries, better to make friends
than, of a, 1717.

Adversity, in, only the virtuous can
entertain hope, 2537.

no education like, 59.
Advertisements, art in writing, 63.
in a newspaper are, 64.

Advice, before giving, 65.

but we mean approbation, 68.
can never be very grateful, 75.
give, cannot give the wisdom, 77.
giving, 70.

good, 67.

may give, but we, 72.

of a fool for once happen to be
good, 1602.

that is wanted is, 74.

to a self-conceited man, 78.
vanity, the apparentmotive of, 76.
Affectation, contempt the punish.
ment of, 83.

necessary to the mind, 82.
Affection, founded upon virtue, 86.
silence, the gratitude of, 5010.
Affections are our life, 84.
Affliction may one day smile, 5168.
teacheth wicked to pray, pros
perity, 4427.

Afflictions, other people's, 949.
Afternoon, multitude call the, 87.
Age is a tyrant, 3862.

is in, the wit is out, 3866.
looks on the happiness of
youth, 2542.

Age requires fit surroundings, 3853.
the, of recollection and narra.
tive, 3855.

very, and body of the time, 5689.
will perform the promises of
youth, 3231.
Ages, the work of, 172.
Agonies, three supreme, in life, 89.
Agony, silent, in which the mind,
2297.

Agreements, differences and seeks,
909.

Aims, laboring toward distant, 116.
All, are, things to all men, 545.
Almighty, the, Dollar, 3613.
Alone, better to be, than, 4748.
him that is never, 5130.
never less, than, 5128.

never, that are accompanied, 805.
no man lives happily, 801.
Ambition, a proud covetousness, 93.
avarice on stilts and masked, 111.
can creep, 91.

cured of, by ambition, 109.
does not see the earth, 110.
enduring from youth to age, 90.
fame, the sovereign, proud, 1513.
generosity is often disguised, 114.
happy at home the, result of, 2491.
has no rest, 95.

in cruel and savage bosoms, 100.
is, more heroic, than avarice, 103.
is often the parent of virtues, 118.
is, proportioned to capacity, 107.
overtaken by calamity, 96.
satisties, 101.

the avarice of power, 98.

the greatest fomenter of envy,

American liberty is an, instinct,3159
patriotism, 3960.

protection of, labor, 4315.
what I call the, idea, 1650.
who reads an, book, 122.
Amiable weakness, 1972, 4053.
Amicably if they can, 5584.
Amity that wisdom knits not, 1911.
Amusement, a principal, 128.
is, study, 127.
Amusements,

be-

contradiction,
tween, and humanity, 129.
they keep people from vice, 130.
Anarchy, rights, should not be sub-
verted by, 2143.

Ancestors have left all things, 138.
man who has, is, 131.
the glory of, 139.

wisdom of our, 132.
Ancestry, the true pride of, 134.
Angel, no evil, but love, 3357.

recording, as he wrote it down,
5270.

Angels, graves are the footprints of,
2197.

Anger, a fierce and sudden flame,

Architect, greatest, is hope, 2540.
of his own fortune, 1632.
Architecture, a creation of, intellect,
173.

cannot remember without, 177.
is frozen music, 179, note.
the, of a nation, 176.
the work of nations, 175.
Are, know what we, but know not
what, 1952.

Argue, many can, not many, 910.
with, wiser than yourself, 183.
Argument, action, never can
force, 3917.

a knock-down, 181.

by dint of, 2962.

the staple of his, 5945.

Arguments, ear-kissing, 184.
Aristocracy is always cruel, 189.
national, is, 185.

en-

Art, great, is the type of strong and
noble life, 231.

great name in, goes but a little

way, 256.

great workman in any, sees more
with, 272.

has advantages of nature with-
out her shackles, 244.
has its fanatics and even, 210.
have genius but wanting, 2019.
in, a point of perfection, 4010.
in the study of nature, 197.
is, after nature, the only conso
lation, 225.

is a language, 275.

is a manly business, 252.
is a reality, 205.

is a revelation of man, 3763.
is a spiritual triumph, 198.
is higher than nations, 208.
is noble, 3808.

is positive, 215.
is power, 221.

is the mirror of life, 207.

is the perfection of nature, 194.
is the revelation of man, 220.
is the shadow of humanity, 214.
is the supreme and final form
in, 222.

is the work of man, a mightier

power, 204.

labor, in the palace of, 2986.
life is short and the, long, 4059.
life, not long enough for, 3213.
many have genius, but, want-
ing, 260.

men of genius are more apt to
feel, than, 209.

moderation in, 237.

must anchor in nature, 206.
my, comprehends all the others,
17.

nature not at variance with, 194.
nature's above, 3774.
necessarily presupposes knowl.
edge, 223.

noble, is the expression of a
great soul, 234.

no good, unbeautiful, 247.

of works of, they mould by con-
tact, 568.

piety, poetry, puseyisms in, 217.
point where, so nearly touches
nature as, 5926.

practical success in, comes from,
246.
repose, in, 233.

represents, truly, 229.

seeks popularity in, closes the
door on, 264.
selfishness in, 4931.
survives all changes, 245.

that gives to, its true power, 224.
the contemplation of, 197.

Art, the inmost secret of, 216,

the lovers of, are many, but, 261.
the, of the wayside, 230.
the right hand of nature, 243.
the salvation of, 238.

true, is opposed to pedantry,
203.

true servant of, will ever be, 45.
unless quickened from above,
and, 193.

vision in, 235.

wit and, 248.

wit and, what power, 5855.
youth of, its inanhood, its old

age, 219.

Artist, dips his brush in his own
soul, 251.

function of the, 273.

great, is the simplifier, 250.
greatness of an, or a writer, 2744.
great pianist is a great, 3722.
is in, his inmost soul aglow, 262.
is the fabled child of popular
legend, 257.

must look to his own industry,
253.

no, work is so high, 3656.
simplicity of the, is, stumbling.
block, 266.

striving to actualize an idea, 263.
the essence of an, is, 276.
the greatest, is he who, 259.
the greatest, who has embodied,
269.

the one thing that marks the
true, 258.

Artist's, cannot put an, day into the
life of any but an artist, 255.
God and the, soul, 271.
the, sufficient reward, 254.
Arts, first rise and progress of the,

212.

Ashamed, man who is not, of him.
self, 4957.

not be, of his early condition,
4957.

Aspiration sees only one side of
every question, 286.

Ass, praise me, an make an, of, 4940.
to write me down an, 827.
Association, the power of, 4391.
Astonishing things are done by or-
dinary, 2002.

Asylum, every, is the question mark,

772.

Atheism, little philosophy inclineth
to, 4025.

Atheist, an, it in no way alters obli-
gations, 282.

Attempts, unsucessful, to spin the
flax God sends, 1451.
Attorneys, know some, of the name,

3782.

Audacity, success, the child of, 5222.

Audience, good talker, implies a
good, 5315.

Author, an, a solitary being, 302.
and reader not always of a
mind, 320.

as long as the book exists, the,
cannot perish, 289.

best part of, is found in his
book, 330.

choose our favorite, as, 315.
every, portrays himself in his
works, 308.

finest strokes of an, are, 993.
great, is a great reformer, 346.
give the, his due, 4591.

happy, below the care of repu-
tation, 317.

hard for a new, to govern his
ambition, 4293.

hope, in the ear of a dramatic,
348.

more

than wit, necessary to
form an, 344.

no, ever drew a character, 1560.
nothing more dreadful to an,
than, 336.

rarely that an, is hurt by his
critics, 328.

reputation as an, is, 327.

the rival of the, 999.

who is a lover of books, 316.
who speaks about his own
books, 304.

worst you can do to an, is, 339.
Authority without virtue is danger.
ous, 2885.

Author's, from an, book to his con-
versation, 321.

Authors, all, are poets, 370.
are lamps, 298.

are like privateers, 322.
are martyrs, 293.

a strange affectation in, 338.
chief glory of every people
arises from its, 331.

in general are stark mad, 347.
promises of, are like, 334.
reciprocal civility of, 335.
Authors' lives, strangely checkered
by vicissitudes, 349.
Authorship, a royal priesthood, 371.
as a vocation, 371.

earning a livelihood by, 373.
Autumn is Venice, 4878.

life to the pomp of, 5246.
magnificent, 374.

the tint of, 375.

Avarice, a greater evil than any,
found in poverty, 381.

ambition is more heroic than,
103.

a uniform and tractable vice,
386.

gaming is the child of, 1956.

Bad, but thinking makes it so, 3895.
nothing either good or, but, 3665.
Bag, with, and baggage, 4084.
Balance, holding the, of power, 4383.
Bald, on the hinder part of, head,
3825.

Ballad, I love a, 3710, 5043.
Ballads, a passion for, 394.

permitted to make all the, 3068.
Ballot, if you strike the, 2131.
Bargain, necessity never makes a
good, 3783.

Barkis is willin', 4051.

Barren, and cry, 'Tis all, 4020.

Battle, a day of, is a day of harvest,
5730.

is as summer fruits, 397.
is a welcome guest, 408.
is based on reason, 396.
is never a delusion, 409.
is of itself a power, 428.

is part of the finished language,
404.

is the index of, 411.

makes the, of beauty, 2330.
moral, comprehends, 678.

of the fantastic or grotesque, 423.
physical, 424.

power of association is the
power of, 4391.

's a coward, without, help of
art, 430.

the holy-day time of my, 3121.
the possibility of, 4336.

the promise of the future, 5796.
there is in true, 402.

the sensible image of the infi-
nite, 398.

the worship of, 426.

without expression, 405.
Bed, accustomed to a silken, 3419.
gravity out of his, at midnight,
2202.

Bed-fellows, misery acquaints with
strange, 3585.

Beer, felony to drink small, 1215.
Beersheba, travel from Dan to, 4020.
Beggar, farmer's dog bark at a, 431.

for a jest, deserves to die a, by,
1711.

most independent, 2725.

that I am, I am even poor, 5361.
Beggars, any man that keeps, 867.
Beggary in the love that can be
reckoned, 3366.

is valiant, 5598.
Behavior is a mirror, 432.
Belief, when one's is firm, is not to
be alone, 434,