Book of Wise Sayings / Selected Largely from Eastern Sources

INDEX.

• Abilities, 17.
• Absent friend, 496.
• Abuse of the great, 398.
• Actions to be avoided, 570.
• Actor, man an, 37.
• Admonition, friendly, 553.
• Advance step by step, 131.
• Adversity, 8, 30, 57, 78, 175, 184, 185, 330, 366, 393, 477, 576, 577.
• Advice, 82, 172, 193, 443.
• Affectation, 87.
• Age should be indulgent, 464.
• Age, reverence for, 484.
• Agreeableness, 258, 296.
• Alms-giving, pride in, 318.
• Ambition, petty, 165.
• Amusements necessary, 111.
• Ancestry, boast of, 239, 240, 385, 395, 493.
• Angel, brute, man, 199.
• Anger, 117, 119, 130.
• Angry man, 518, 587.
• Annoyances, 387.
• Anxiety, needless, 298.
• Apparel, 418.
• Arrogance, 267.
• Arts, mothers of the, 540.
• Associates to be avoided, 571.
• Associates, wicked, 215.
• Associations, 542.
• Attributes of hand, head, etc., 513.
• Authority, 151, 452, 561.
• Avarice, 38, 310, 364, 382, 481.

• Bad men, 15, 351.
• Beauty, 100, 179, 295, 565.
• Beginning, etc., 383.
• Behaviour, 430.
• Beloved, best, 406.
• Beneficence, 4, 5, 191, 485.
• Benefits, 312, 345.
• “Bless those that curse you,” 587.
• Blockhead in fine clothes, 465.
• Blockhead, lively, 562.
• Boastfulness, 248.
• Bodily and mental qualities, 204.
• Body, the soul’s tent, 272.
• Books, 96, 195, 196, 197, 252, 283, 550.
• Bores, 579.
• Borrowing, 429.
• Braying men, 554.
• Business, do your own, 564.

• Calmness, 361.
• Capacities of men, 32.
• Caution in changing, 131.
• Character, portraying, 160.
• Character, test of men, 109.
• Charity, 94.
• Cheerfulness, 302, 391.
• Children, 379.
• Circumstances, 67.
• Clever men, 86.
• Companions, 450.
• Conduct, best, 214.
• Confidence, 268.
• Consolation, 346.
• Constancy of friends, 366.
• Contemporaries’ approval, 156.
• Contentment, 10, 52, 101, 135, 334, 471, 538.
• Contrasts in life, 502.
• Controversy with ignorant men, 584.
• Conversation, 71.

• Daily cares and duties, 503.
• Dangers reconcile foes, 274.
• Death, 26, 138, 461.
• Deception, 243.
• Deeds and words, 445.
• Delusions, 441.
• Deportment, 206.
• Derision of superiority, 521.
• Designs, 315, 405, 466.
• Difficulties, 425.
• Diligence, 189, 428.
• Discontent, 222, 520.
• Distinctions, invidious, 557.
• “Do unto others,” etc., 372.
• Doctrine entering the ear only, 285.
• Dog’s tail, 373.
• Doubt, 7.
• Dreams, 388, 389.
• Dull minds, 278.

• Ears and tongue, 273.
• Eat moderately, 572.
• Education and morals, 348.
• Eminence, 563.
• Employment, want of, 11.
• Empty things, 410.
• Endurance, 582.
• Energy, 95, 149.
• Enjoyments, alloyed, 352, 353.
• Envy, 124, 168, 271, 343, 375, 525.
• Equality of men, 234.
• Errors in judgment, 64.
• Evil men reformed, 68.
• Evil not to be returned, 413.
• Evil plotters, 162, 569.
• Evil speaking, 321.
• Excellence and mediocrity, 60.
• Exertion, 134, 263, 468, 510.
• Expenditure, 176, 247, 511.
• Experience, 36.

• Faculties of men limited, 120.
• Faith not to be forced, 408.
• Falsehood, 341.
• Fame of good and evil deeds, 277.
• Fame, worldly, 34, 158.
• Familiarity with the great, 255.
• Fancy, charm of, 514.
• Fashions, old, despised, 169.
• Fate and wishes, 376.
• Fate and youth, 122.
• Fathers and sons, 519.
• Faults, 20, 39, 41, 198, 219, 269, 347.
• Favours, conferring, 317.
• Fear, 339.
• Feeble characters, 446.
• Feeling, sudden transitions of, 127.
• Flattery, 13, 250, 251, 323, 459, 528.
• Foes and friends, 84.
• Foibles, men’s, 322.
• Follies, 97.
• Folly’s reward, 567.
• Fools, 108, 166, 181, 265, 415, 465, 541, 561, 574.
• Forgiveness, 329, 344.
• Fortune, 56, 173, 233, 249, 262, 276, 536, 552.
• Friends, 16, 98, 174, 432, 458, 478, 496, 544, 547, 588.
• Friendship, 24, 116, 309, 330, 346, 477.
• Frugality, 316.

• Generosity, 140.
• Genius dull in society, 534.
• Gifts, 80, 456, 529.
• Giving, manner of, 354, 483.
• God, the best friend, 79.
• Gold beautifies, 422, 427.
• Golden mean, 21.
• Good, doing, 110, 136, 137, 145, 209.
• Good for evil, 25, 311.
• Good and bad men falling, 297.
• Good man, 15, 288.
• Good man’s intellect, 89.
• Good name, 29, 289.
• Goodness, 73, 153, 238.
• Good son, 16.
• Good wife, 16.
• Good words, 457.
• Good work undone, 35.
• Gratitude, 317.
• Great men, intercourse with, 177.
• Great souls, qualities of, 78.
• Greed, 447.
• Grief, useless, 207, 324.
• Griefs, secret, 300, 378, 394.
• Grossness, 303.
• Guilty men, 386.

• Handicraft, 451.
• Happiness, 58, 66, 70, 187, 253, 262, 311, 337, 363, 367, 406, 523.
• Harsh words, 192.
• Hatred, 123, 447, 549.
• Health, 52.
• Heart, 62, 79, 129, 132, 545.
• Hearts and beauty, 179.
• Heaven’s gate, 543.
• Hero, 406.
• Hoary head, 416.
• Home, 253, 406, 523.
• Humility, 150, 157.
• Husband, 161, 401, 490.
• Hypocrisy, 403.

• Idleness, 424.
• Ignorance, 103, 198, 199, 290, 301, 355, 431.
• Imitativeness, 404.
• Impudence, 374.
• Increase, by degrees, 460.
• Independence, 581.
• Indiscreet men, 85.
• Inherent badness, 373.
• Injury rebounds, 126.
• Injury unjustifiable, 407, 413.
• Insignificance, man’s individual, 308.
• Instruction, 580.
• Irresolution, 294.

• Judge things by their merit, 196.
• Judgments, how formed, 259.

• Kindness, 4, 5, 54, 92, 129, 305, 306, 311, 344.
• Kinsmen and strangers, 91.
• Knowledge, 3, 7, 43, 55, 201, 205, 218, 225, 286, 307, 355, 396, 397, 416, 454, 508, 546.

• Labour, 275, 429, 453, 506.
• Laughter, 47, 163, 186.
• Law, 463.
• Law and physic, 167.
• Learning, 40, 43, 143, 342, 449, 479, 491, 504, 509.
• Liars, 246.
• Liberality, 93, 94, 140, 241, 449, 498.
• Life, 23, 83, 125, 133, 144, 235, 287, 326, 365, 461, 502, 535, 539.
• Loquacity, 182, 301, 359, 583.
• Loss, greatest, 406.
• Losses half felt, 216.
• Love, 314.
• Low-minded men, 485.

• Man, an actor, 37.
• Man an intellectual animal, 128.
• Mankind, knowledge of, 369.
• “Many cooks,” etc., 437.
• Marriage, 333.
• Mean, the golden, 21.
• Mediocrity and excellence, 60.
• Memory, 414.
• Men, difficult to know, 33.
• Men like ships, 409.
• Mental faculties, limited, 120.
• Mental offspring, 417.
• Mental and bodily qualifications, 204.
• Merit, innate, 433.
• Merit, true and false, 242.
• Merit without praise, 104.
• Middling fortune, 536.
• Mind, 115, 226, 229, 270, 279.
• Misanthropy, 336.
• Miser, 481.
• Misery, 357.
• Mistakes, 72.
• Modesty, 159, 282, 436, 522, 548.
• Money, 188, 190, 368, 573.
• Mothers’ greatest joy, 566.
• Morning, lesson of the, 139.

• Nature praises the Creator, 512.
• Neighbour, every man one’s, 442.
• Neighbours and companions, 450.
• Night, silence of, 266.
• Noble birth, 434.
• Noble-minded men, 485.
• Novel-reading, 475.

• Obliging others, 426.
• Old age, 439, 484.
• Old and new things, 196.
• Old man, 65.
• Opportunities, 185, 420.
• Oppression, 191.
• Origin, one common, 9.
• Outward perfection, 499.

• Parents’ affection, 154.
• Parsimony, 316.
• Passionate man, 74.
• Passions, 1, 2, 119, 280, 447.
• Past, present and future, 326.
• Patience, 42, 118, 135, 185, 207, 476.
• Peace, greatest, 406.
• Personal troubles, 31.
• Personation, 102.
• Physic and law, 167.
• “Physician, heal thyself,” 421.
• Pity, 124.
• Place, things out of, 237.
• Plagiarism, 96.
• Plans, miscarried, 327.
• Pleasure, 337.
• Pleasure and pain, 353.
• Pleasure in others’ welfare, 350.
• Poesy, 260.
• Poetaster, 217.
• Potter and clay, 377.
• Popular opinion, 76.
• Poverty, 44, 105, 121, 208, 245, 410, 422, 472.
• Praise and censure, 88, 104, 500, 501.
• Praise, how to merit, 130.
• Prayer, universal, 19.
• Prefaces to books, 550.
• Prejudices, 551.
• Premature actions, 264.
• Premature death, 122.
• Present affairs, 462.
• Present good despised, 213.
• Presents, 80, 456, 529.
• Pretence, 102.
• Pride, 107, 157, 159, 291, 338, 492, 497.
• Pride in religious works, 318.
• Profitable thing, 406.
• Progress, 487.
• Projects, 315, 405, 466.
• Promises, broken, 28.
• Prosperity, 10, 30, 56, 93, 175, 224, 350, 393, 477.
• Providence, 320.
• Purpose without power, 146.
• Pursuits, 203.

• Rabble among gentry, 358.
• Rashness, 473, 559.
• Reality, 546.
• Reason, 14, 299, 559.
• Reckless life reformed, 68.
• Regrets, useless, 298, 486.
• Remorse, 220.
• Reprehension, 75.
• Reproof, harsh, 553.
• Resignation, 538.
• Resolution, 12, 263.
• Respect, hatred, pity, 123.
• Restraint, 141.
• Reticence, 18, 586.
• Reviling to be borne, 587.
• Riches, 148, 187, 210, 281, 400, 401, 470, 471, 536.
• Ridiculous, cause of the, 292.
• Righteousness, 443.
• Romances, 419.

• Salvation, 257.
• Sea-margins of thought, 516.
• Secrets, 99, 221, 288, 489, 505.
• Seeming to be more than one is, 390.
• Self-conceit, 112.
• Self-conquest, 223.
• Self-contemning, 578.
• Self-control, 280.
• Self-depreciation, 282.
• Self-dissatisfaction, 46.
• Self-judging, 524.
• Self-knowledge, 152, 261.
• Self-love, 142, 370.
• Self-palliation, 467.
• Self-praises, 412.
• Self-reliance, 115.
• Self-seeking men, 338.
• Self-valuation, 328.
• Sensuality, 423.
• Serve from lowest station upwards, 335.
• Shadows of the mind, 226.
• Shame, 90, 256, 374.
• Silence, 22, 180, 244, 254, 438, 444, 465, 474, 556.
• Simpletons, bores, 579.
• Simplicity, 435, 488, 568.
• Sin, repeated, 170, 448.
• Single are we born, etc., 589.
• Slander, 69, 412, 560.
• Smatterers, 384.
• Society, 27, 258, 537.
• Son, good, 16.
• Sorrows, 6, 50, 61, 185, 381.
• Sparing and spending, 511.
• Speech, 180, 254, 438, 474.
• Strangers and kinsmen, 91.
• Stupidity, 515.
• Style in writing, 284.
• Subtle and dull minds, 278.
• Subtle-witted men, 278.
• Success, 149, 183, 578, 583.
• Successes, unexpected, 53.
• Suffering, 147.
• Superiority, 57, 527.
• Superstition, 356.
• Sweep your own doorstep, 507.
• Sympathy, 371.

• Taciturnity, 244, 526, 583.
• Talents and character, 576.
• Talkativeness, 182, 301, 359, 583.
• Temperance, 380.
• Temptation, 106.
• Things good and bad, 59.
• Things long desired, 392.
• Things to be guarded against, 155.
• Things universally valued, 399.
• Think before speaking, 474.
• Thorns and roses, 331.
• Thought, 114, 402, 516.
• Time, 79, 113, 325, 360.
• Titles of books, 283.
• To-day and to-morrow, 530, 531.
• Toil and pleasure, 349.
• Tongue and ears, 273.
• Trials, 51.
• Troubles, 202.
• Truth, lovers of, 246.
• Truth and severity, 332.

• Undertakings of the careless, 313.
• Universe, lessons of the, 48.

• Vacant mind, 229.
• Valour, 449.
• Vanity, cure of, 494.
• Vaticination, 462.
• Vices, 304, 340.
• Vicissitudes, 584.
• Virtue, 532, 589.
• Vociferation, 361.
• Voice, the human, 455.

• Weak and strong men, 236.
• Wealth, 77, 115, 148, 187, 210, 267, 400, 440, 449.
• Wicked associates, 215.
• Wicked, unstable, 411.
• Wickedness, odious in the learned, 469.
• Wife, 16, 161, 194, 200, 231, 232, 401, 406.
• Wisdom, 171, 482, 584.
• Wise men, 131, 227, 265, 533, 584.
• Wish, father to the thought, 212.
• Wishes, vain, 486.
• Wishes and powers, 293.
• Wit and fancy, 555.
• Wit and wisdom, 362, 558.
• Woman, 45, 164, 178, 230, 495, 509, 517.
• Words cannot be recalled, 228.
• Words, harsh, 192.
• Words without deeds, 211.
• World, a beautiful book, 49.
• Worldly fame and pleasure, 34, 158.
• Worst thing, 406.
• Wretched not to be mocked, 63.
• Writings, like dishes, books, like beauty, 96.

• Years, early, misspent, 480.
• Youth, negligence in, 81.
• Youth returns not, 319.

• Zeal, excessive, 586.