and so, the Lord bless you, preserve you, and keep you, my dear brethren, my dear brethren!
— from The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus From the Quarto of 1604 by Christopher Marlowe

However, continued he, as I would not publicly declare my marriage here, I hope she won't come near us till we are in Bedfordshire; and then, when she knows we are married, she will keep away, if she is not willing to be reconciled; for she dares not, surely, come to quarrel with me, when she knows it is done; for that would have a hateful and wicked appearance, as if she would try to make differences between man and wife.—But we will have no more of this subject, nor talk of any thing, added he, that shall give concern to my dearest.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

'Oh, my dear brother!'
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

f, to truth and falsehood, 223 , 21; bad, the fair words of, 137 , 53; basest thought about, 416 , 47; below himself, 143 , 21; best served, 143 , 22; bachelor, betrothed, wedded, 25 , 39; by nature and art, 18 , 45; call no, happy before death, 241 , 45; central part in, 453 , 12; centre of all beauty and worth, 312 , 35; characteristic function of, 241 , 25; characteristic of, known only to God, 415 , 3; chief fault of, 60 , 14; child of nature, 26 , 60; compared to a clock, 44 , 4; contrasted with woman, 560 , 45; dear to man, 58 , 22; dear to the gods, 36 , 18; defined, 352 , 19; despised by world, 465 , 4; distinctive mark of, 489 , 29; distinguishing qualities of, 76 , 54; effect of favour and a fall on, 225 , 18; either god or devil, 159 , 23; either god or wolf, 159 , 17; end of, 425 , 12, 13; ever in need of man, 154 , 17; ever wrestler rather than believer, 84 , 47; either born king or fool, 24 , 23; every, a potential madman, 91 , 49; every, a quotation, 92 , 12; every, a reflex of the All, 92 , 35; every, a special vocation, 91 , 28; every, a suggestion, 92 , 16; every, at birth, 150 , 29; every, dupe to himself, 92 , 15; every, exceptional, 92 , 14; every, his own valuator, 92 , 27; every, knowledge of, special, 92 , 20; every, in a sense alone, 92 , 19; every, rule for, 240 , 39; every, to follow his own star, 212 , 7; every, when sick, 92 , 13; extraordinary, without root in life, 205 , 43; feeling one's self a, 217 , 36; final destiny of, 91 , 29; folly in, 471 , 32; folly of, in having and not using faculties, 126 , 5; foolishest thought about, 416 , 47; formed to be a husband, 291 , 8; free at first, 164 , 35; God in, 174 , 19; God in, a birth of faith, 100 , 16; god or devil, 367 , 41; God's creature, 93 , 18; God's proper treasure, 128 , 34; good, sign of a, 418 , 15; great, by conviction, 312 , 32; greatest, a son of man, 60 , 6; greatest crime of, 111 , 17; hard to persuade, 265 , 10; has a good and a bad angel, 92 , 8; has still all the faculties he ever had, 297 , 6; highest, brother to his contemporaries, 435 , 2; highest glory and highest disgrace of, 493 , 40; his body and soul, 159 , 13; his destiny, 482 , 18; his nature the rule for, 81 , 27; his own enemy, 91 , 48; his own portion, 12 , 26; his vitality, 461 , 5; how to estimate a, 370 , 29; 505 , 10; how to know a, 177 , 23; 493 , 28; how he knows himself, 334 , 47; how to influence a, 177 , 45; how to study, 495 , 52; human element in, 533 , 45; hungry, to be alone, 87 , 32; if alone, a terror to himself, 533 , 13; ignorant of himself, 316 , 51; ill to advise, 161 , 34; in a series, 521 , 27; immensity of his possibilities, 26 , 62; in contrast with nature, 291 , 4; in God's image, 125 , 24; in himself, 522 , 11; in his deed a precedent to man, 9 , 68; in his self-delusion, 119 , 22; in presence of Nature, 292 , 23; in prosperity, 90 , 32; in relation to his defects and talents, 12 , 27; in relation to instinct, 522 , 26; is what he is, 387 , 48; interest in, 163 , 31; is sincere, when alone, 91 , 44; just and resolute, Horace on, 216 , 42; key to every, 437 , 27; knowing, and men, different, 201 , 18; knowledge of, 437 , 40; known by his company, 312 , 7; known by what he honours, 389 , 39; left to his passions, 236 , 44; life of, a diary, 439 , 3; life of, how led, 488 , 36; life of, its course, 439 , 4; like Ulysses, 182 , 30; limit of evil in, 218 , 13; lord of himself, and his resources, rare, 151 , 11; lovable through his errors, 65 , 6; lowest, life of, 439 , 7; Luther's definition of a, 554 , 8; made for society, 521 , 33; master of his fate, 329 , 34; measured by his own standard, 278 , 45; most essential fact about, 443 , 44; nearest God, 143 , 35; new always in a new time, 444 , 44; no bad, happy, 295 , 12; no, born for himself, 295 , 24; {pg 619} no, born without faults, 289 , 33; no, but has his time, 473 , 22; no, compelled to be compelled, 218 , 15; no, entirely a devil, 303 , 8; no, extraordinary, without a mission, 212 , 1; no, friendless, 473 , 20; no longer a temple, 95 , 10; no, the man prayed for, 242 , 3; no, the one waited for, 58 , 38; no, wise at all moments, 295 , 15; no, wise by himself, 295 , 25; noble, attractive power of, 78 , 43; not easy to transplant, 313 , 7; not hindered by society, 396 , 8; not his own guide, 204 , 6; not men, God-made, 128 , 4; of celestial descent, 551 , 34; of decision, 441 , 11; of action, the chief concern of, 58 , 32; of genius and other men, difference between, 462 , 7; of genius, his view of things, 297 , 21; of genius, sayings about, 440 , 23, 24; of noble deeds, in trouble, misjudged, 208 , 18; of pluck, 477 , 43; of sound brain and his knowledge, 92 , 20; of the world, how to be, 413 , 48; oh for a, with heart, head, hand, 325 , 52; on the confines of two hostile empires, 95 , 13; one, with a higher wisdom, worth of, 332 , 56; of only one subject, 66 , 44; only point in regard to, 446 , 13; original, and the world, 464 , 13; 465 , 17 our obligations to, 527 , 41; only sleeping and feeding, 535 , 38; overwhelmed with misfortune, 374 , 19; part of a whole, 489 , 7; peculiarity of, 426 , 4; piped to by fortune, 20 , 23; Plato's definition of, 15 , 24; poor, if not raised above self, 507 , 51; power looked for in, 221 , 29; preacher to woman, 460 , 43; presence and passion of, 465 , 17; presence of absence of, a difference, 548 , 11; presumption of, rebuked, 125 , 7; proof of a, 204 , 29; proper study of man, 220 , 2; pure, in this world, 441 , 10; qualities to possess to make, 488 , 14; real science and study of man, 228 , 20; regarded as end of creation, 203 , 17; religiously viewed, 91 , 46; sayings about, 60 , 32-38; 61 , 1-13; 91 , 44-55; 92 , 1-44; science of, obscure, 267 , 30; self-ruined, 127 , 15; separated from his circumstances, 371 , 23; small, surveying great, 19 , 54; something in, as yet unnamed, 178 , 30; something of all in every, 476 , 40; soul of the whole, 559 , 15; spirit of, indomitable, 504 , 18; strange contradictions in, 162 , 16; subject to his power, 12 , 12; summary history of, 261 , 44; substantiality in a, 443 , 19; taught only by himself, 146 , 30; test of, 489 , 34; that hath no music in him, 440 , 31; that stands by himself, 440 , 33; the, and the hour, 440 , 29; the arch-machine, 196 , 14; the beauty of, 65 , 1; the best, 289 , 33; the façade of a temple, 12 , 11; the fatal, 427 , 16; the first, significance of, 422 , 11; the foundations of, 429 , 19; the greatness of, how to comprehend, 339 , 20; the highest might of, 513 , 10; the knowledge of, price of, 491 , 33; the life of, 465 , 19; the life of, a journey, 439 , 5; the little, 439 , 24; the lot of, 52 , 40; the merely merry, 440 , 38; the merely serious, 440 , 38; the more universal, the greater, 210 , 28; the noble, with nobler, 439 , 25; the noblest function of, 53 , 45; the noblest, that ever lived, 483 , 28; the, of character, 440 , 32; the ordinary, happiness of, 446 , 30; the real, 450 , 38; the riddle of the world, 49 , 40; the shadow of, 292 , 1; the state of, 481 , 47; the state of, Wolsey on the, 102 , 19; the substantial, 479 , 1; the terrible, 117 , 38; the, that blushes, 440 , 30; the want of, 554 , 46; the wealth of a, 461 , 40; the, who cannot wonder, 441 , 3; the whole, of this new time, 554 , 24; the wisest, 14 , 44; the, without sense of his relation to things, 440 , 35; this was a, 157 , 5; threefold property of a, 449 , 45; to be obeyed, 464 , 15; to be saved from damnable error, 173 , 32; to free oppressed, 126 , 9; to what appointed, 33 , 17; treating a, with solemnity, effect of, 542 , 12; truly blest, 440 , 39; truly free, will and action of, 223 , 30; two things necessary to make a man, 544 , 43; weakness of, 267 , 25; well-ordered, independence of, 147 , 27; what exalts, 488 , 33; when God visits him, 127 , 33; when most God-like, 12 , 8; when one is a, 568 , 39; when quite destitute, 223 , 25; when reformer and when conservative, 522 , 13; when true, 173 , 2; when truly alive, 264 , 26; while living, necessary, 19 , 50; who always wins, 142 , 6; who bears rule, 153 , 12; who can call to-day his own, 140 , 26; who can define, 145 , 9; who cannot blush, 440 , 41; who cannot endure his own company, 441 , 2; who cannot laugh, 441 , 1; who cannot win a woman, 413 , 47; who depends on public recognition, 440 , 42; who does not fear death, 441 , 6; who does not think what he is doing, 528 , 26; who has no enemies, 441 , 8; who has only ancestry to boast of, 441 , 9; who is not passion's slave, 123 , 16; who knows not how to live, 441 , 4; who never decides, 441 , 12; who never loved his kind, 554 , 17; who owes his bread solely to heaven, 140 , 27; who runs away, 14 , 58; who wavers in wavering times, 441 , 11; whom kings have most to fear, 153 , 10; whose mother has not inspired him with veneration, 507 , 20; whose soul is veiled by pair of glasses, 534 , 42; why no, can judge another, 303 , 14; within man, 92 , 9; without a purpose, 109 , 15; without bread, 42 , 51; without enthusiasm, 165 , 46; without passion, 559 , 39, 40; without philosophy, 559 , 41; without prayer, 534 , 5; without shame lost, 289 , 24; without the Bible, 392 , 52; word of, 520 , 7; Wordsworth's lament over, 14 , 48; worthiest, according to Burns, 454 , 4; worthiest of affection, 189 , 60 Man's , arm, if upheld by the gods, 402 , 20; being, secret of, the sphinx's, 452 , 44; chief want, 538 , 1; discontent, 352 , 31; doings symbolic, 10 , 34; faculty, feet not wings, 524 , 41; finest qualities, how to preserve, 427 , 45; first great work, 428 , 21; gifts, 219 , 51; greatest ornament and dignity, 533 , 27; grief his grandeur, 352 , 31; life, sphere of, 202 , 41; lot, like wind, 385 , 11; nature, secret of, 452 , 45; needs and wishes, 514 , 16; only true joy, 316 , 27; origin and end, 412 , 39; soul, majestic, 241 , 46; true ambition, 204 , 37; true beginning and father, 486 , 12; true elevation, 340 , 45; true safety, 340 , 45; true want, 538 , 8; two gala-days, 570 , 3; work, a, 261 , 46 Management , good, economy of, 129 , 47 Manfulness , in sin as well as faith, commended by Luther, 26 , 6 Manhood , a, how built up, 92 , 43; a period of unlearning, 482 , 33; a struggle, 568 , 42; passing away of, 514 , 19; possible here, 156 , 22; sense of, elevating power of, 443 , 26; measure of, 354 , 40 Manhood's work, 402 , 22 Mankind , an unco' squad, 564 , 24; and his task, of what composed, 313 , 12; contractedness of, 140 , 9; contrary estimate of, 398 , 42; does not doubt, 265 , 11; ever in progress, 106 , 20; evil of despising, 553 , 12; generally bad, 326 , 35; how interpreted, 556 , 33; how to love, 177 , 39; how to maintain love for, 188 , 42; knowledge of, damaging effect of, 277 , 54; Machiavelli on, 57 , 16; one and a whole, 173 , 25; proper study of, 449 , 43; to love, and to see into, 494 , 14; wish of, collectively, 89 , 50 Manliness , commended, 366 , 36 Mannerism , how produced, 139 , 20 Manners , a probity in, 470 , 20; artificial, effect of assuming, 469 , 26; authors of, 238 , 32; cannot be imparted, 137 , 37; caught as diseases, 200 , 50; composing, more than composing books, 141 , 42; defended by ceremony, 38 , 20; effect of pride on, 194 , 40; effect on, of liberal arts, 194 , 14; everywhere to be respected, 76 , 14; fine, inventor of, 120 , 26; {pg 620} fine, mantle of fair minds, 106 , 28; fine, support of, 106 , 29; good, 129 , 48-51; good, and love of country, 439 , 48; good, to attain to, 490 , 5; good, not communicated, 128 , 52; good, the basis of, 417 , 1; good, the element of, 454 , 5; how learned, 478 , 83; importance of, 181 , 17; 204 , 46; 559 , 8; men's evil, 277 , 24; once vices, 538 , 16; people of, distinguishing trait of, 424 , 4; pleasing, effect of, 283 , 50; refinement of, how attained, 216 , 19; regulated by the king, 45 , 47; root of defect in, 56 , 61; striking, bad, 403 , 43; strange, disconcerting, 281 , 5; that speak well of the man, 469 , 27; the power of, 406 , 21; the supreme power in, 187 , 56; to be studied, 313 , 31 Manual labour, the value of, 305 , 44 Manufacture , contrasted with art, 550 , 16 Manufactures , our, 525 , 38 Many , men, many minds, 332 , 58; the, no pleasing, 123 , 24; 258 , 30 Maria Theresa's epitaph, 388 , 2 Mark , missing the, 416 , 15 Market-place , training of, 450 , 13 Marksman , a good, 6 , 49 Marriage , a happy, 249 , 41; a query prior to, 36 , 33; a way to repentance, 118 , 30; a suitable, 390 , 30; according to luck, 93 , 31; advice regarding, 175 , 21; an open question, 197 , 19; an unhappy, 280 , 25; as birds in cages, 198 , 8; before and after, 217 , 44; 276 , 29; before, evil, 147 , 56; concern of others in one's, 324 , 17; contentment in, 187 , 57; early, advantage of, 117 , 2; extremes in, 64 , 7; fascination of, 118 , 36; for money, 148 , 1; in despair, 341 , 24; in opinion and reality, 191 , 29; inducements to, 451 , 26; kills or cures, 80 , 20; may mar, 23 , 22; rule in, 82 , 63; 270 , 23; saying on, 568 , 7; significance of, 326 , 14; Socrates on, 550 , 10; the happiest, 124 , 6; true, union in, 192 , 15; unfortunate, evil of, 202 , 43; well-matched and ill-matched, 531 , 27; with an old person, in hope of his death, 479 , 44 Marriages , unequal, 496 , 41; 507 , 9; why few happy, 451 , 1 Married , in haste, 485 , 45; life, who fit for, 335 , 7; people, their mutual interest, 548 , 24 Marry , times not to, 192 , 40 Marrying , anticipated and experienced, 36 , 34 Martyr , a, to live harder, than to die, 203 , 5; blood of the, 436 , 39; what makes a, 206 , 1 Martyrdom , ennobled by Christianity, 42 , 54; to bystanders, 458 , 14 Martyrdoms as seen at the time, 9 , 58 Martyrs , accepted by nature, 292 , 18; the blood of, 418 , 42; the modern, 359 , 33 Masses , effect of giving power to, 123 , 33; judgment of the, 518 , 11 Master , a fellow worker, 446 , 42; a good, 152 , 17; and his affairs, 71 , 6; and servant, unhappy relation of, 395 , 14; being without a, 491 , 1; careless, 2 , 35; early, 75 , 34; effect of presence of, 80 , 53; every one finds his, 85 , 27; eye of, 426 , 34; finding, a first duty, 428 , 15; measure of, 441 , 41; minds, rare, 292 , 38; no one born, 295 , 45; of whole world, 150 , 13; presence of, eye of house, 327 , 39; qualification for, 175 , 3; spirits, 56 , 54; the, and the mansion, 293 , 34; true, 145 , 36; who fears his servants, 279 , 47; who will not serve one, 42 , 17 Master's eye, worth of, 53 , 28 Masterhood , and servanthood, correlative, 107 , 7; restriction necessary to, 152 , 39 Masters , accustomed, not easily dispensed with, 239 , 17; and their domestics, 105 , 9; change of, to the poor, 189 , 18; no serving two, 303 , 24; 305 , 22; not all, 523 , 2; real, importance of, 559 , 43; serving two, 41 , 15; the great, the subject of all, 324 , 34 Mastership and servantship, value of, 96 , 19 Mastery , empty claim of, over others, 10 , 1; essence of, 492 , 48; of a subject, how to attain, 117 , 32; how to attain to, 390 , 36; mistaken for egoism, 65 , 29; thorough, how possible, 303 , 25; 305 , 22 Material things essential to life, 468 , 26 Mathematics , our, 524 , 34 Mathesis , a fundamental, 494 , 11 Matrimony , the state of, 234 , 22; 405 , 46 Matter , spirit-informed, 277 , 43; subject to mind, 279 , 32 Maturity , law of, 445 , 5 Maxim , the grand modern, 38 , 45; the, of maxims, 491 , 38 Maxims , by themselves, 12 , 33; good, value of, 129 , 52; sound, the value of, 400 , 23; their helpfulness, 356 , 1; their, show men, 239 , 4; too high, to be reserved, 529 , 2 Mazes , in wandering, lost, 336 , 43 Me , our, the only reality, 482 , 12 Mean , a, in all things, 87 , 14; deed, debasing, 150 , 2; the proper course, 98 , 5 Meaning well, 495 , 24 Meanness , debasing, 16 , 16; more hopeless than wickedness, 166 , 44 Means , and end, 5 , 50; I'll husband, 110 , 25; must be at hand, 3 , 32; to do ill deeds, 162 , 39 Measures , nothing to men, 273 , 41 Meat , and stomach for it, matter of thanks, 398 , 14; one man's, not another's, 5 , 7; where mouths, 127 , 30, 42 Medal , and its reverse, 40 , 3; reverse of, thought on, 333 , 3 "Meddle not," as a maxim, 413 , 31 Medea , her method of reform, 305 , 28 Mediævalism , chief moral agent of, 453 , 11 Medical skill, profession of, universal, 106 , 36 Medicine , contrary effects of, 84 , 35; Mephisto on the study of, 59 , 58 Mediocrity , aiming at, 489 , 32; helpful to make wise, 189 , 56; in power, 314 , 35; 376 , 46; naturally pleasing to us, 308 , 1; respectable, inoffensive, 374 , 50; the ascendency of, a sign of the times, 429 , 45; to be cheerfully accepted, 172 , 19; when unendurable, 466 , 32 Meekness , power of, 405 , 25; true, faces of, 398 , 12 Melancholy , and mirth, correlated, 482 , 27; charm in, 125 , 9; contrasted with cheerfulness, 40 , 46; how to prevent, 81 , 41 Melanchthon's rule, 188 , 25 Melodies , of the everlasting chime, 467 , 10; the sweetest, 408 , 30 Melody , in the heart of everything, 9 , 47; sphere, 435 , 3 Member , suffering in one, 110 , 13 Memorial , more durable than brass, 96 , 47 Memorials , enduring, 99 , 20 Memory , and judgment compared, 21 , 3; dependent on forgetfulness, 495 , 18; dependent on oblivion, 176 , 16; independent of will, 338 , 33; necessity of exercising, 273 , 11; not to be dragooned, 565 , 45; pleasures of, 546 , 21;
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

He does not try to explain why different muscles are brought into action under different emotions; why, for instance, the inner ends of the eyebrows are raised, and the corners of the mouth depressed, by a person suffering from grief or anxiety.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

They looked for M. Danglars, but, as he was not especially interested in poetical ideas, he had gone into the garden, and was talking with Major Cavalcanti on the projected railway from Leghorn to Florence.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

“My faith!” said the young man, laughing, “I confess it, and so much more the readily, my dear Bonacieux, as I see there is no concealing anything from you.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

The Ta’uya spell ( Chapter XIII ): Mwanita, monimwanita; Deriwa, baderideriwa; Derima, baderiderima …
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

The others submitted to my failure good-naturedly, and made it the subject of many droll, but not unkindly, witicisms.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

The younger person is always presented to the older or more distinguished, but a gentleman is always presented to a lady, even though he is an old gentleman of great distinction and the lady a mere slip of a girl.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

King, W.R., on the vocal organs of Tetrao cupido; on the drumming of grouse; on the reindeer; on the attraction of male deer by the voice of the female.
— from The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex by Charles Darwin

Pitt was absent, and had the proverbial fate of the absent; he was not merely distant, but could not be moved.
— from Lord Chatham, His Early Life and Connections by Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, Earl of

Vat you making dere, Bedro?
— from Frank at Don Carlos' Rancho by Harry Castlemon

“He had given his hand,” as a certain Monsieur du Bousquier remarked, “to the person who had long had him under irons.”
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

“Of course, I will, my dear boy; I always liked you from the day when you came up to me and wanted the shilling.
— from The Queen's Scarlet The Adventures and Misadventures of Sir Richard Frayne by George Manville Fenn

As the full significance of my discovery burst upon me, my joy and the excitement of my splendid triumph so moved me that my hands trembled as I held these precious manuscripts, and I no longer could see clearly the painted characters because of the tears of happiness which filled my eyes.
— from The Aztec Treasure-House by Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone) Janvier

That these separations may disappear between us in all times and circumstances, and that the union of sentiment which mingles our sorrows on this occasion, may continue long to cement the friendship and the interests of our two nations, is our constant prayer.
— from Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 by Thomas Jefferson

Then followed the organization of the Vigilance Committee, mainly directed by members of the Committee of '51.
— from The Vigilance Committee of 1856 by James O'Meara

And all that I had to excuse me did but make my sin appear the greater—it was upon a nature so defenceless, and with such advantages of the position, that I seemed to have practised.
— from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson