392, 9;
of aim, attainment of, 154, 34;
only from purity, 5, 52;
the, required, 495, 41
Purpose, fixed, necessity of, 222, 8;
increasing, through the ages, 564, 37;
of things, question unscientific, 450, 30;
one, at  a time, 177, 12;
prosecution of, 112, 51;
single, value of, 462, 3;
steadfastness of, 530, 3;
to be followed by deed, 428, 47;
when in one's power, to be carried out, 546, 15
Purposes, effect of, on the mind, 442, 17;
good, in churchyard, 269, 4;
how often broken, 539, 23;
wrecked, cause of, 207, 5
Purse, a beggar's, 1, 19;
a common, effect of having, 546, 25;
as a friend, 63, 53;
full of other men's money, 413, 21;
in the head, 171, 14;
man who has lost, 169, 36;
the, its importance, 450, 19;
who steals my, 552, 37
Purses among friends 124, 12
Pursuit, enchantment of, 206, 8;
the pleasure of, 10, 57
Pushing man, deference to, 525, 37
Pyramid, two that reach the top of, 469, 2
Pyramids, antiquity of, 73, 46;
the, 450, 20
Pyrenees, no longer any, 180, 23

Q

Quack talent, the two sources of, 459, 29
Qualities, bad, akin to good, 88, 24;
natural, superiority of, 444, 33;
that ruin, rather than raise, 407, 30;
too high, inconvenience of, 497, 32
Quarrel, pretext for, easily found, 177, 20;
proneness to, 484, 2
Quarrelling, and both feeling in the wrong, 276, 40;
blame of, 52, 22;
no time for, 422, 42;
with ourselves, 522, 19
Quarrels, entrance to, 29, 67;
how to prevent, 504, 10;
others', meddling with, 148, 2; 145, 20;
why prolonged, 239, 22
Question, test of a man in answering, 489, 34;
the vexing, 518, 25
Questioning, much, effect of, 552, 22;
prudent, value of, 359, 24;
the value of, 148, 12
Questionings, curious, 274, 3
Questions, old vexed, now sorrowfully solving themselves, 327, 20;
test of a man, 214, 38;
when to answer, 207, 10
Quickness, evil of too much, 559, 7
Quotation, a fine, 5, 46;
classical, 43, 48;
justified, 168, 20;
the value of, 462, 29
Quotations, Burns' fancy for, 168, 15

R

Rabble, the supreme powers, 109, 14
Rabelais' last words, 210, 36
Race, a humble, how ennobled, 131, 3;
always moving, 436, 28;
not hybrids, respected by Nature, 292, 20
Races, growing effeminacy of, 239, 23
Rage, how to treat, 335, 51;
of love turned to hatred, 154, 3
Rags, disgraceful, 277, 41
Railway travelling, Ruskin's estimate of, 128, 25
Rain, continual, effect of, on blossoms, 320, 4
Rainbow as a sign, 450, 33
Rainy day, for unlearned, 165, 49
Rake at another's expense, 281, 3
Rank, but the guinea's stamp, 109, 16;
concern about, 467, 34;
high, a burden, 132, 45;
not happiness, 209, 14;
vanity of, 490, 43
Raphael, Lessing on, 367, 55
Rare, the, seldom forgotten, 319, 5
Rascal, putting, to confusion, 297, 44
Rascals, how to diminish, 260, 48
Rash, none, when not seen, 311, 11
Rashness, a fault of youth, 411, 44;
discouraged, 4, 68;
effect of, 394, 13;
effect of, on business, 141, 5
Rational, and real, 520, 20;
compared with beautiful, 331, 48
Raven, brought up, still a raven, 80, 25
Read, how to, with profit, 303, 21;
things to, 368, 49
Read, not, not written, 310, 37;
who has, little, 171, 24
Reader, a good, 489, 2;
and author, 240, 2;
and the book he reads, 93, 55;
good, rare, 6, 52;
how to interest a, 299, 5
Readers, busy, 32, 62
Reading, a benefit to few, 469, 6;
a rule for, 297, 18;
advice in regard to, 208, 15;
advices on, 369, 1, 2;
as an entertainment, 301, 38;
counsels for, 235, 45;
experiment in, 502, 45;
harmful to fools, 540, 35;
how to profit from, 175, 19;
idling, 212, 26;
importance of, 565, 24;
John Morley on, 433, 1;
miscellaneous, to be avoided, 280, 19;
mistake about, 483, 37;
much, effect of, 285, 23;
much, Hobbes on, 172, 37;
much, the moral effect of, compared with seeing, 12, 50;
object of, 445, 18;
frequent, not enough, 198, 35;
rule for, 528, 5;
the most pleasant and profitable, 30, 21;
the object of, 368, 50;
to doubt or scorn, 14, 39; 139, 34;
twice, the benefit of, 537, 28;
value of, 77, 7;
what is not worth, twice, 536, 43;
without reflecting, 495, 11;
worst kind of, 17, 56
Real, and Ideal far apart, 115, 33;
as contrasted with possible, 234, 40;
man, a, defined by Mencius, 153, 9;
rational, 520, 20;
the, for ever, 219, 54;
the, how to measure, 271, 43;
the, to be idealised, 539, 33
Realities, hard to discern, 391, 26
Reality, always nobler than fancy, 90, 49;
and fancy, the provinces of, 101, 48;
and imagination, the worlds of, 465, 7;
behind appearances, 481, 34;
better than imagination, 14, 14;
importance of, 205, 21;
minus appearance, 61, 23;
only, supportable, 316, 18;
the only, 482, 12;
the product of, how to regard, 241, 47;
truth of, why unrecognised, 105, 12
Reaping, more difficult than sowing, 495, 45;
the rule in, 510, 28
Reason, a misuse of, 207, 18;
a rare guide, 162, 20;
against a crowd with stones, 535, 37;
agreeableness to, as a test, 298, 19;
and contingency, 462, 1;
and knowledge, 513, 10;
and necessity, 462, 1;
and instinct contrasted, 172, 46;
and piety, to be combined, 526, 39;
and prudence, in conduct, 241, 44;
and religion, 372, 6;
and spirit, two aspects of one thing, 414, 37;
and understanding, objects of, 67, 2;
being without, 491, 2;
compared with fancy, 526, 20;
elevating power of, 68, 20;
every man's, his oracle, 92, 42, 44;
functions of, 329, 43; 504, 2;
its rank, 435, 4;
like drunk man on horseback, 163, 29;
like sweet bells jangled, 317, 38;
loss compared with deprivation of, 458, 15;
misapplied, 468, 22;
no, upon compulsion, 123, 38;
not to fust unused, 407, 29;
once passion, 537, 4;
origin of, 102, 3;
our chart, 46, 35;
our delight in, abuse of, 337, 37;
relation of, to revelation, 375, 12;
sacredness of, 148, 33;
service under, advantage of, 152, 19;
sound and sufficient, the lot of few, 400, 22;
sovereign with the noble, 15, 52;
the function of, Cicero on, 368, 31;
the pilot, 239, 15;
the use of, 53, 39;
those who have no, 127, 6;
true, its power, 500, 36;
truths of, not dependent on facts, 421, 32;
versus blind force, 350, 24;
versus faith, 20, 20;
without the light of divine truth, 352, 6;
worse appear better, 157, 15, 16
Reasonable, or unreasonable, asking what is, 194, 33;
the, open to every one, 217, 7
Reasoner, a wise, 551, 7
Reasoning mule, obstinacy of, 17, 41
Reasons, nothing to the chaff, 133, 5;
our own, our satisfaction in, 331, 4;
strong, effect of, 404, 8
Rebellion, no equity under, 471, 37
Rebels, treatment of, 47, 38
Reckoning, when banquet's o'er, 394, 48;
without host, 41, 21
Reckonings, short, 389, 31
Recollection, a happy, 505, 39;
inferior to pertinency, 139, 14
Recompense, 381, 19;
Fénelon on his, 284, 18;
rule of, 21, 19
Reconciliation, desire for, as a prognostic, 238, 30
Recreation, necessity of, 111, 12
Redress, the surest way to, 456, 30
Refined man, characteristic of, 452, 12
Refinement, what contributes to, 540, 34
Reflection, commentary on experience, 97, 28;
noble, 34, 19;
they who practise not, 479, 21;
value of, 77, 7
Reform, evil of unsuccessful attempts at, 22, 10;
not joyous, but grievous, 305, 28
Reformation, attended by a great licentiousness, 6, 67;
salve of, in ignorance of the sore, 452, 23;
the, egg of, 84, 24;
the only solid, 495, 15;
unconscious, 528, 9
Reformers, error of our, 206, 17
Reforming a world or a nation, 495, 15
Reforms, great, negative as well as positive, 91, 19;
history of, 435, 20;
how far effective, 9, 59;
necessary, how helped, 127, 8;
our, not radical, 539, 22
Refusal, a friendly, 28, 30;
less than nothing, 17, 46
Refusing, in, the "no" only heard, 266, 1
Regard, how to win, 42, 13
Regeneration accompanied with travail, 12, 7
Regimenting men, importance of, 202, 44
Regret, no, no amendment, 147, 38
Reign, to, worth ambition, 495, 16
Rejected of man, accepted of God, 112, 1
Relations, hard to discern, 391, 26;
hatred among, 2, 53;
our, character of, 339, 9;
our, and our friends', how chosen, 339, 10
Relationships, one's, requirement in, 10, 28
Relatives, by chance, 235, 16
Religion, a bigotry, 524, 29;
a cloak, 165, 5;
a fruit of time, 486, 32;
a God, 398, 40;
a necessity to great minds, 76, 27;
a new, not the thing wanted, 297, 31;
and liberty in Catholic and Protestant countries, 185, 23;
and love, strength of, 253, 48;
and morality, divorce between, 427, 18;
and wise men, 11, 5;
anything but living for, 277, 17;
characteristic of, 64, 8;
Cicero's definition of, 216, 30;
contrasted with beliefs, 85, 38;
contrasted with morality, 467, 13;
contrasted with superstition, 407, 6, 7, 12, 13;
dead letter of, fate of, 422, 44;
defined, 537, 5;
definition and power of, 452, 45;
dependence of, on prayer, 306, 43;
display of, 547, 21;
disputing about and practising, 423, 45;
done for money, Ruskin on, 540, 40;
essential to education, 77, 4;
effect of, 489, 8;
effect of first sense of, 2, 56;
effect of too deep study of, 497, 36;
errors in, 464, 43;
errors in, sanction of, 189, 34;
essence of all, 425, 34;
every established, once a heresy, 90, 43;
fancy in, 101, 51;
felt as a slavery, 12, 47;
first object, whole object, 151, 44;
first element in, 379, 8;
flower of, when perfect, 447, 24;
Frederick the Great on, 174, 48;
from habit, 398, 37;
fruit of age, 536, 16;
gentilising power of, 566, 28;
heartfelt, the source of all, 392, 31;
how to persuade men to, 553, 33;
in relation to art, 18, 50;
inconsistency of our zeal for, 197, 10;
indispensable to society, 307, 14;
living, root of, 252, 6;
made secondary, 541, 7;
matter of feeling, 121, 43;
Monday, 282, 27;
mongers, and their dupes, 284, 36;
much, no goodness, 285, 24;
much profession in, 189, 32;
murdered by bigotry, 30, 18;
national, now no test of a people, 306, 36;
no living, till dead own itself dead, 106, 54;
no teaching, without having, 305, 43;
no, without humanity, 142, 44;
not credited, excesses for, 496, 43;
not professed, 538, 25;
of all sensible people, 168, 27;
of one age in the next, 451, 10;
of present time, 114, 22;
only guide of life, 549, 42;
only one true, 476, 19;
origin of, in society, 340, 20;
our abuse of, 339, 13;
our, and treasure to be one, 508, 4;
our, Emerson on, 339, 12;
power of, 174, 44;
rooted in fear, 188, 17;
soul of, 100, 18;
sum of, 493, 15;
sympathy with Nature, 408, 43;
talk against, suspicious, 547, 28;
temple-step of, 456, 5;
the all in, 189, 33;
the only foundation of, 189, 36;
the performance of duty, 375, 29;
though undefined, no chimæra, 138, 34;
to be one's own, 240, 37, 38;
too hard, 497, 30;
true, 500, 31-33;
true, object of, 445, 21;
upon mere authority, 493, 14;
vestibule of, 283, 17;
vital, first condition of, 481, 44;
with suffering, no wonder, 203, 28;
without morality, 305, 11; 522, 39;
without personal immortality, 559, 21
Religions, all once true, 451, 12;
Goethe's three, 468, 28;
of world, 451, 11;
only two possible, 466, 27;
the essence of all true, 375, 28;
the genesis of, 372, 34;
transient, but not religious sense, 333, 42
Religious, a, not less a man, 7, 26;
enthusiasm, hollowness of, 215, 26;
men at their beads, 543, 39;
passion, the, and art, 451, 13;
principles, Hume on, 96, 1;
revival, the ground on which to hope for, 422, 44
Religiousness, true, condition of, 357, 12
Relish in one's self, 310, 1
Remedies, extreme, for extreme evils, 98, 9;
imaginary, for imaginary diseases, 269, 30;
our, in ourselves, 339, 13;
sayings about, 470, 23;
slower than diseases, 410, 51
Remedy, of remedies, 514, 14;
where sure, 504, 30;
worse than disease, 5, 2
Remembrance our inalienable paradise, 64, 13
Reminding may cause forgetting, 273, 9
Remorse, as punishment, 473, 21;
not imaginary, 10, 13
Removals, quick, 365, 8
Renounce, who needs not, 161, 19
Rent, to pay, plough or not, 17, 50
Renunciation, a life-long demand, 483, 41;
effect of, 237, 40;
essential to happiness, 217, 6;
importance of, 205, 30
Repentance, a deathbed, 4, 6; 55, 37;
a vain, 142, 52;
act of, the virtue in, 414, 7;
daughter of the skies, 44, 43;
man not satisfied with, 550, 43;
man's virtue, 66, 40;
our glory, 338, 8;
pain of, 446, 37;
true, 500, 34, 35;
with amendment rare, 117, 28
Repetition, the effect of,