commended, 539, 34
Urn, storied, hollowness of, 35, 20
Use, constant, effect of, 104, 43;
effect of, on strength, 184, 32;
essential to possession, 316, 43;
power of, 111, 33;
what we do not, 539, 26
Useful, but part of important, 520, 13;
encourages itself, 460, 15;
only to be gloried in, 300, 34;
with agreeable, mingling of, 327, 52;
regard of the ancients for, 208, 30
Usefulness, condition of, 144, 38;
incompatible with baseness, 186, 16
Useless, nothing, to sensible people, 180, 5;
people, 460, 16;
to self, useless to others, 151, 15
Usurer and his plough, 460, 17
Utmost, the, who does, 535, 3
Utopia, Emerson's, 169, 10;
the true, life in, 191, 22
Utopias, premature truths, 239, 29
Uttered, the, and unuttered, part of life, 460, 19

V

Vagabonds, nature-made, 292, 9
Vain, man, folly of, 489, 41;
men, how to treat, 243, 48
Vainglory, anti-Christian, 242, 28
Vale of life, cool, sequestered, 102, 10
Valetudinarians like misers, 345, 12
Valiant, and his sufferings, 460, 20;
as compared with cowards, 49, 26;
the most truly, 153, 26;
valour of, 3, 17
Valour, against adversity, 4, 69;
contrasted with endurance, 460, 22;
definition of, 103, 53;
in distress, 69, 48;
mean of, 441, 39;
of just man, 460, 21;
power of, 540, 29;
sad, wise, 379, 15;
the better part of, 418, 18;
the truest, 198, 14;
true, defined, 500, 41
Valours, our, our best gods, 339, 31
Value, in men and things, 460, 23, 24;
the one thing of, 445, 40
Vanity, a mark of humility, 490, 42;
a preservative against, 437, 41;
a source of, 40, 33;
a, which is deadly, 470, 2;
application to, of truth, 476, 1;
as lack of understanding, 92, 7;
as regards fashions, 477, 10;
compared with pride, 356, 34, 36;
corrupting power of, 507, 2;
desecrating power of, 476, 10;
difficult to manage, 474, 40;
in rags, 168, 28;
inherent in mankind, 92, 48;
masterpiece of, 100, 44;
our, versus dignity, 339, 32;
why insufferable, 537, 42
Vanquished, he could argue still, 89, 36
Vapour, floating, subject to gravity, 428, 48
Variety, source of pleasure, 278, 36;
the zest in, 315, 34
Vase, a bungled, 14, 6
Veil, a, of the gods, not to be lifted, 242, 11; 506, 7
Veils, the moral value of, 289, 21
Venerate, the untrained to, 507, 20
Veneration, deep and great affection, incompatible, 201, 8;
secret of, 460, 26;
that is godlike, 191, 43
Vengeance, deep, begotten of deep silence, 56, 55;
gods of, their action, 66, 6;
nature of, 375, 22;
noblest, 445, 9;
sacrifices from, 269, 39
Venturing, warrant for, 176, 36
Venus, the cruel pleasure of, 391, 10
Veracity as a duty, 445, 22
Verse that wounds, curst by Pope, 52, 2
Verses, writing, no special craft, 367, 11
Vesture, colour of, 422, 32;
cut of, 422, 32
Vexations not to be aggravated, 294, 39
Vice, all, under a guise of virtue, 474, 42;
an emancipator of the mind, 414, 21;
and virtue, methods of, contrasted, 45, 41;
dignified by action, 515, 18;
every, brink of a precipice, 327, 47;
evil of, 66, 31;
eradicable with time, 75, 27;
forsaking, 361, 45;
in the form of example, 512, 3;
only antidote for, 171, 19;
Roman, Juvenal on, 299, 38;
under disguise of virtue, 100, 33
Vices, attacking, in the abstract, 489, 38;
how regarded, 50, 11;
insinuating power of, 516, 22;
not all our own, 294, 43;
often from good qualities, 268, 26;
that have banished virtue, 225, 31
Vicissitude, advantage in, 12, 43
Victory, a Cadmæan, 216, 47;
by force, 552, 19;
celebrated in song, 533, 3;
different effects of, 171, 32;
greatest, 391, 12; main thing, 178, 29;
masters of, 444, 41;
no, without cost, 307, 37;
noblest, 227, 11;
not by violence, 191, 30;
reward of, 514, 5;
secret of, 537, 16;
without bloodshed, 132, 14
Victuals, one's, criticising, 533, 9
Vigilance as a virtue, 518, 13
Vile, nothing so, as to yield no good, 317, 1
Villains, rich and poor, in league, 545, 13
Villainy, diverse rewards of, 332, 55
Vine round the oak, and the reason, 453, 45
Vinegar, the sharpest, 456, 33
Violence, as a manager, 261, 9;
short-lived, 20, 42
Violent, the, short-lived, 316, 41
Violin, a beginner on, 192, 31
Virgil's, ambition, 412, 30;
epitaph, 268, 4
Virtue, a defence, 5, 1; 36, 35;
a soul raised to, a masterpiece, 322, 23;
attainment of, 445, 6;
according to reason, 460, 44;
and vice, how to treat, 370, 28;
alone happiness, 220, 1;
as a covering, 188, 21;
as an anchor, 511, 14;
attribute of, 382, 14;
base of every, 257, 27;
best plain set, 120, 8;
certainty in, where to find, 189, 31;
cheap without trial, 154, 20;
child of freedom, 67, 12;
complacent fair-weather, 552, 33;
condition of its growth, 249, 55;
consciousness of, 91, 2;
cornerstone of, 386, 12;
decease of, Cicero on, 128, 46;
defined, 546, 4;
dependence of, on misfortune, 136, 33;
divine path to, 412, 47;
element of, 485, 5, 7;
end of life, 111, 35;
enduring, 70, 15;
for its own sake, 214, 26;
force of, 506, 22;
foundation of all, 164, 4;
her sublime elevation, 488, 45;
Hesiod's path to, 451, 35;
how to acquire, 243, 10;
how to see her form, 488, 45;
how to seek, 405, 55;
in a beautiful form, 132, 24;
in ambition and in authority, 188, 23;
in regretting, 269, 34;
initial, of the race, 436, 38;
its brother, 307, 34;
its own reward, 11, 1;
joy of, in being put to test, 119, 6;
least, not to be deferred, 57, 5;
less in favour than vice, 149, 44;
love for, 233, 34;
made a vice, 526, 11;
manifestation of, measure of, 19, 64;
measure of a man's, 13, 1;
must be dignified, 156, 34;
never cruel, 140, 38;
no, quite unconscious, 303, 46;
no tax on, good of, 89, 53;
not valued by fortunate, 67, 27;
obstructions to, 23, 46;
only want of, despised, 330, 18;
ostentation in, 149, 3;
parent of, 193, 37;
pathway to, 548, 54;
primal condition of, 449, 20;
produced by collision, 44, 28;
proper theatre of, 307, 25;
pure, till tried, 212, 19;
pursuit of, beyond bounds, 194, 43;
sayings about, 66, 29-33; 228, 6-12; 397, 3, 4, 6; 515, 35-54; 516, 1-9;
silent, arm of world, 464, 11;
sometimes awkwardly set, 181, 15;
that can't be bought, rare, 105, 13;
that requires to be guarded, 414, 22;
the only necessity, 507, 26;
the sentinel, 46, 38;
to be exercised, 165, 24;
to her votaries, 48, 7;
true, 500, 42, 43;
two roads to, 570, 6;
under calumny, 34, 54;
under oppression, 50, 2;
versus pedigree, 164, 48;
we boast of, 265, 41;
weak, 530, 14;
within, honour without, 175, 26;
without discretion, 559, 28;
without its reward, 260, 7;
without restraint, 183, 34;
zeal for, value of, 331, 34
Virtues, acknowledged by Christianity, 43, 6;
and faults, interchangeable, 523, 25;
at different ages, 185, 28;
fortifying, 432, 27;
gentlemanly, rare, 526, 7;
godlike, parent of all, 420, 16;
greatest, Augustine on, 432, 43;
late in maturing, 438, 3;
lost in interests, 239, 32;
milder, correlated to severer, 442, 10;
not all our own, 294, 43;
one's, thinking of, 438, 37;
our, sayings about, 339, 34-37;
permanency of our, 530, 30;
severe and restrictive, 453, 18;
to profit one, 509, 22;
two chief, 319, 36;
two kinds of, 399, 11;
we speak of, 528, 18
Virtuous, deeds and their reward, 109, 22;
most, of men, 444, 10;
sayings about the, 461, 1-3, 21;
the, defined, 540, 43
Visible, garment of invisible, 457, 24
Vision, clearness of, its comprehensiveness, 495, 30;
consequence of intensified, 395, 22;
imperfect, effect of, 323, 19;
limit of, for most, 304, 37;
measure of our, 539, 20;
now, through a glass darkly, 110, 28;
the, of visions for a man, 422, 40
Visionaries, all, 521, 6
Visions, the, we see, 521, 6
Vitality, fate of what has no, 540, 33
Vocation, a peculiar, to every one, 75, 14;
apt to mistake our, 521, 10;
chosen for one, 296, 32;
of man, primary, 449, 22
Voice, as index of character, 473, 12;
human, power of, 436, 5;
is in my sword, 167, 7;
inner, to be trusted, 519, 10;
of man, general and perpetual, 429, 44;
soft, gentle, and low, 155, 4;
wisest, no longer divine, 463, 25
Void, in things, 321, 42
Voltaire, impotency of his logic, 197, 24;
in relation to his time, 82, 34;
on his life, 258, 27
Volubility different from pertinency, 42, 49
Volume, flesh-bound, the only revelation of God, 428, 46
Vote, of a slave, a nuisance, 307, 11
Votes, should be weighed, 265, 37;
worthlessness of decisions by, 520, 15
Voting, decision by, Cromwell's protest against, 517, 36
Vow to heaven to be first paid, 321, 11
Vows, unheedful, 507, 23
Vox populi, vox dei, falsehood of, 414, 15
Vulgar, incapable of pure truth, 289, 20;
people, mark of, 403, 12;
respect of, for wealth, 136, 42;
sayings about, 461, 10-12;
working on, with fine sense, 492, 10
Vulgarity, and fashion, 102, 30, 34;
condemned, 64, 9;
essence of, 425, 35;
marks of, 69, 30;
or solitude, 465, 12
Vulnerable, point, our, 522, 10;
point, the, 164, 20

W

Wages, God's business, 279, 38;
never to be angrily demanded, 304, 5;
our claim of, 260, 43
Waggons, creaking, 49, 39
Wailing, no remedy, 311, 24;
over the dead, ineffectual, 230, 29
Waiting, advantage of, 94, 16;
in vain, 20, 14;
not Goethe's way, 160, 24
Walking, a falling forward, 461, 14;
a series of falls, 13, 2
Wallets, our two, 345, 41
Wanderers o'er eternity, 33, 27
Wandering, think of, 171, 37
Want, caused by haste, 141, 7;
effect of, on heart, 538, 18;
full satisfaction of, 493, 2;
prayer of, to be listened to, 116, 28;
that man has to dread, 204, 40
Wants, four material, 287, 5;
knowledge and effort necessary for supply of, 152, 38;
man's, 266, 17;
source of our, 203, 48;
which we are insensible of, 12, 30
War, a game which subjects might veto, 33, 32;
an iron cure, 60, 27;
and peace, Schiller on, 221, 32;
art of, Napoleon on, 567, 13;
art of, Wellington on, 462, 5;
begun, hell let loose, 137, 19;
conquest by cruelty in, 50, 33;
conquest in, 201, 1;
epithets of, 27, 33, 41, 44, 45;
evil, 181, 38;
evil of, 101, 31; 191, 30;
for war, 155, 8;
final aim of, 59, 54;
glorious, pride, pomp, and circumstance of, 102, 22;
hell enlarged, 122, 31;
honour of, 382, 13;
horror of, 506, 26;
how to look on, 27, 43;
how to still, 288, 48;
legitimate object of, 27, 42;
man in time of, 188, 52;
mistakes in, inevitable, 150, 36;
murder, 98, 28;
no second blunder in, 30, 30;
once business, 112, 34;
right form of, 106, 6;
ruin to thousands, 280, 32;
sacrifices in, 209, 48;
sign of injustice, 549, 24;
sources of, 116, 11;
success in, 405, 31;
success in, right earned by, 150, 1;
three things required in, 569, 37;
when just, 216, 41
Ware, bad, never cheap, 329, 45;
no, without the money, 565, 32
Warfare, the greatest, 391, 12;
the spiritual, of these days, 191, 35
Warlike people, vices of all, 119, 42
Warmth, great, at outset, an evil sign, 135, 23;
in winter, 191, 27
Warning, comparative worthlessness of, 334, 22;
word, not heeded, 23, 10
Warnings, earth full of, 75, 47
Warrior, an old, 15, 59;
and war-horse, but a vision, 414, 24
Warriors, great, why remembered, 135, 24
Wars and mothers, 27, 35
Waste, caused by haste, 141, 7;
where no enjoyment, 544, 35
Waster, after an earner, 77, 40
Watching, vain, 96, 24
Water, afar, and fire, 3, 32;
and blood, different destinations of, 425, 2;
and wine as mirrors, 192, 30;
as servant and master, 106, 39;
drinking, 73, 8;
not to be quarrelled with, 522, 5;
pure, to be sought at the fountain, 42, 38;
smooth, to be guarded against, 57, 34;
spilt upon the ground, 21, 13;
that has passed the mill, 45, 54;
where the brook is deep, 394, 40
Waters, still, deadliest, 313, 27
Wattle, Captain, 63, 44
Wave, the longest, 439, 37
Waves, tainted with death, 103, 45
Way, a, fashioning, through the impassable, 331, 8;
best, to be chosen, however rough, 42, 43;
good, to be inquired after, 402, 16;
how to make, 312, 24;
noiseless tenor of their, 102, 10;
seeing one's, 168, 26;
that seemeth right, 470, 42;
truth and life, importance of the, 560, 2;
wrong in one's own, rather than right in another, 45, 2
Ways to end, many, 10, 44