our, in frenzy and under reason, 338 , 43; right, knowledge of, versus love of, 151 , 28; righteous, principal thing, 275 , 38; steadfastness of, 104 , 12; where no, whims, 151 , 7 Printing-press , power of, 535 , 16 Prisoner and free man contrasted, 449 , 26 Private , affairs, talking of, 469 , 38; soldier in France, 498 , 39 Privilege , defined, 357 , 15; our pride in, 538 , 6 Probabilities , a thousand, short of one truth, 279 , 26 Problem , a palpably hopeless, 123 , 41; our first, 206 , 11 Problems , soluble and insoluble, 263 , 5 Procrastination , danger of, 162 , 34; evil of, 540 , 14 Prodigal compared with miser, 449 , 31 Prodigals , as regards money, 49 , 14 Production , greater than expansion or decoration, 449 , 32; law of, 252 , 2 Profane , negatively defined, 315 , 36 Profanity , no, where no fane, 469 , 12 Profession , a man's, his master, 167 , 17; no, without its troubles, 174 , 31; one, enough for a man, 493 , 38 Professions , five great intellectual, 107 , 11 Professors , great, 483 , 16 Profit , contrary views of, 284 , 31; late, better than none, 58 , 45; no, except through pleasure, 306 , 47 Profitable things, the casting away of, 419 , 29 Profits , moderate, 166 , 18; slender, but often, 219 , 39 Profundity to be avoided, 11 , 29 Progress , delight in sense of, 513 , 32; dependent on man's energy, 446 , 14; due to grumblers, 549 , 2; human, great steps in, not due to reason, 521 , 46; no pause in, 292 , 6; no, retrogression, 150 , 5; no, with half a will, 12 , 53; no, without grumbling, 566 , 42; often backward, 72 , 43; often illusory, 273 , 28; or retrogression, 10 , 31; social, a degeneracy, 17 , 2; symbolised by burning of Phœnix, 106 , 20; the secret of, 312 , 24; steps of, 94 , 9; when we make most, 330 , 30; 333 , 22 Prohibition , as a charm, 225 , 7 Projecting to accomplishing, a long road, 232 , 53 Prometheus , fire of, dangerous to handle, 267 , 3; rather than Epimetheus, 221 , 34 Prometheus Vinctus , the unregenerate, the misery of, 496 , 15 Promise , a debt, 17 , 3; 152 , 6; a gift, 495 , 7; a, unfulfilled, 473 , 1; a, we may trust, 501 , 8; and performance, 10 , 20; disappointment of, 161 , 36; given and broken, 449 , 34; versus performance, 14 , 15 Promised Land , the, 449 , 35 Promises , extravagant, 148 , 10; lavish, evil of, 231 , 26 Promising , and fulfilling, between, 570 , 9; and hoping, 357 , 60; and performing, rule in, 528 , 3; at death, 566 , 9; slow in, faithful in performing, 151 , 12 Propensities , evil, subduable, 301 , 44 Propensity , natural, stubborn, 541 , 8 Proper and honourable, inseparable, 56 , 41 Property , bequest of, 547 , 18; defined by Proudhon, 227 , 19; got dishonestly, fate of, 58 , 13; ill got, 261 , 11, 12; in others, right of, 527 , 42; our own, small, 521 , 3; parting with, before death, 152 , 3; pleasure in, how spoiled, 312 , 10; right of, 289 , 14; right to, and the sanction, 306 , 48; right to, Xenophon on, 480 , 31; who should hold, 479 , 22 Prophecies , belief in, most pernicious of superstitions, 324 , 39 Prophecy , our gift of, whence, 522 , 8; voice of, 461 , 7; wisely denied us, 122 , 35 Prophet , a, not less a man, 127 , 56; among every people, 93 , 43; distinguished from poet, 449 , 46; not honoured at home, 17 , 5; to every people, 125 , 54 Prophets , armed and unarmed, 10 , 37; false, 29 , 68; 560 , 29; the art of, 287 , 6; the teaching of all, 220 , 5; unconscious, all, 520 , 43 {pg 634} Propriety sacrificed to pleasure, 289 , 27 Prose , and verse, difference between writing, 497 , 7; of seventeenth century, 339 , 2; speaking, without knowing it, 99 , 50; 181 , 23; writer, ranked as sage, 202 , 25; writing, ancient and modern, 445 , 31 Proselytes , man's pleasure in making, 262 , 30 Proselytising , a natural ambition, 494 , 21 Prosperity , a comparison, 395 , 16; and friendship, 227 , 21; behaviour in, 89 , 11; condition of beholding, 302 , 53; continuous, hard to bear, 94 , 28; different effects of, 171 , 32; effect of, on temper, 104 , 18; effect of sudden, 259 , 15; forgetful, 224 , 24; in our own hands, 277 , 29; its attendant languor, 471 , 24; man's, the secret of, 302 , 49; moral effect of, 258 , 12; national, incompatible with national poverty, 334 , 9; no, above discouragement, 303 , 38; no, by falsehood, 302 , 49; no, enjoyable without adversity, 303 , 44; of another, to rejoice in, 495 , 17; past, memory of, 110 , 31; road to, 140 , 34; temper in, 5 , 13; the rule for, 189 , 22; to one unaffected by adversity, 390 , 20; unhinging, 295 , 38; virtue of, 460 , 42 Protestantism , effect of, on the character, 37 , 1; modern, and the cross, 281 , 30 Protestation , to be distrusted, 265 , 14 Protesting , evil of, 423 , 37 Proud , man, in authority, 33 , 15; man, in the eye of angels, 324 , 35; inwardly a beggar, 414 , 6; man, often mean, 449 , 49; the, appeal to, 409 , 28; the, compared with the vain, 511 , 3; the, their affectation, 50 , 32; the, their humiliation, 455 , 25; the truly, 440 , 36; thought for the, 111 , 41 Proudhon's ideal of society, 288 , 5 Proverb , defined, 17 , 8; described, 17 , 9; good, ingredients of, 386 , 48; Lord J. Russell's definition of, 463 , 33; the spiritual force of, 476 , 13 Proverbial sayings, 467 , 35 Proverbs , convincing power of, 415 , 9; of the wise to be studied, 62 , 26; significance of, 429 , 49; William Penn on, 462 , 28 Providence , a frowning, 27 , 8; an inference from history, 291 , 2; and an inert people, 486 , 24; and one's wish, 566 , 41; and things as they are, 168 , 5; faith in, not to slacken effort, 550 , 27; faith of men of thought, 284 , 12; God's, the measure of, 128 , 6; no freezing, 301 , 56; those who watch, 480 , 22; to be trusted 390, 14; trust in, Mahomet on, 486 , 17; watching, 148 , 57; ways of, our knowledge of, 207 , 22; with the intelligent, 128 , 13 Prudence , a guardian angel, 318 , 29, 30; a virtue of old age, 411 , 44; and fortune, 202 , 54; as guide, 65 , 12; contrasted with genius, 120 , 9; defeated by tenderness, 450 , 4; defined, 113 , 12; 432 , 27; from time, 486 , 38; in matters of, the rule, 187 , 58; the first to forsake the wretched, 280 , 28; the one, 445 , 39; the part of, 450 , 5; the sanctuary of, 382 , 20; want of, 518 , 33 Prudent , favoured by chance, 39 , 39; man and his time, 431 , 24; people, how they profit, 37 , 17 Psyche's one word, 453 , 47 Public , as judges, 569 , 42; as master, 152 , 18; as patrons of genius, characterised, 139 , 10; calamity, the chief, 485 , 8; composition of, 234 , 39; how caught, 330 , 42; men, wise character of, 359 , 27; opinion, hard to defy, 277 , 14; opinion without a sovereign, 449 , 23; servant to, poor animals, 151 , 19; spirit, ages of, 415 , 42; the, described, 54 , 22; the judgment of, 295 , 32; the sayings about, 450 , 7-12; the servant of, 42 , 26; who serves, 554 , 23 Pudding , cold and love, 44 , 27 Pulpit , teaching of, and training of the marketplace, 450 , 13; whose voice reaches farthest, 324 , 38 Punctuality , and kings, 223 , 12; important, 80 , 4; Nelson's, 166 , 35; strict, the virtue of, 403 , 37 Punishment , and crime, 51 , 5 (see Crime); benefit of, 330 , 24; by the laws, 438 , 29; contrasted with forgiveness, 277 , 55; corporeal and pecuniary, 329 , 4; dreaded and deserved, 126 , 52; for one's own actions, 430 , 24; injustice in, compensated, 138 , 6; rule in, 318 , 2; sayings about, 450 , 14, 15; the greatest, 356 , 48; 473 , 3; the rudest, 473 , 21; unfailing, 368 , 11 Punsters , Holmes on, 345 , 9 Pupil often outstrips master, 325 , 41 Purchase , the time to, 76 , 29
— 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.

Towards midnight the vaults of St. Denis receive their own; unwept by any eye of all these; if not by poor Loque his neglected Daughter's, whose Nunnery is hard by.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Some of our Parliaments, when they are to admit officers, examine only their learning; to which some of the others also add the trial of understanding, by asking their judgment of some case in law; of these the latter, methinks, proceed with the better method; for although both are necessary, and that it is very requisite they should be defective in neither, yet, in truth, knowledge is not so absolutely necessary as judgment; the last may make shift without the other, but the other never without this.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Warned by the fate of all previous attempts to break down the wall of seclusion that hemmed in the 'country of the gods,' they resolved to make such a show of force that with reasonable people, unfamiliar with modern artillery, might prove as powerful an argument as theories of universal brotherhood and the obligations imposed by the [pg 43] comity of nations.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

" King Eystein replies, "Thus I interpret your dream, sire,—That the bench betokens the kingdom we brothers have; and as you thought King Olaf came with so glad a countenance to our brother, King Olaf, he will likely live the shortest time of us brothers, and have all good to expect hereafter; for he is amiable, young in years, and has gone but little into excess, and King Olaf the Saint must help him.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

In conclusion let us add, not as additional testimony, for the data are too defective, that among five hundred American students at the Institute of Technology in Boston, roughly classified, there were 9 per cent of pure brunet type among those of country birth and training, while among those of urban birth and parentage the percentage of such brunet type rose as high as 15.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

The treatment of us by Abolitionists also is enough to try the souls of better saints than we.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

[2808] by virtue of stones, herbs, plants, meats, and the like, which are prepared and applied to our use, by art and industry of physicians, who are the dispensers of such treasures for our good, and to be [2809] honoured for necessities' sake, God's intermediate ministers, to whom in our infirmities we are to seek for help.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Being come, we up to the Duke of York’s chamber, who, when ready, we to our usual business, and being very glad, we all that signed it, that is, Sir J. Minnes, W. Batten, W. Pen, and myself, and
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

When the jests incidental were hushed, and one after another had retired to bed, Judge Dooly, then on the Bench, went slowly to the only unappropriated bed, and undressing, folded down the bed-clothes.
— from The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest by W. H. (William Henry) Sparks

[Pg 84] After thus establishing friendly relations with his audience, he instructs them that yellow is a colour to be used sparingly and in connection with “gleaming materials” such as silk; that red to be at its finest must be deep and full and between crimson and scarlet; that purple no one in his senses would think of using bright and in masses, and that the best shade of it tends toward russet; green, he continues, must seldom be used both bright and strong.
— from William Morris: Poet, Craftsman, Socialist by Elisabeth Luther Cary

Now to this selfishness, which may without exaggeration be termed the endemic taint of all human associations, Christianity has applied the antidote of Love, in the {222} triple form of love to Christ, love to the brethren, and love to the human race;—love to Christ as the incarnate type of unselfish benevolence and noble self-sacrifice; love to the brethren as fellow-soldiers in the same glorious human campaign; love to all men, as sheep of one common fold, which the further they have strayed the more diligently they are to be sought for.
— from Four Phases of Morals: Socrates, Aristotle, Christianity, Utilitarianism by John Stuart Blackie

[Pg 425] A few inscribed tablets of stone and baked clay, figures in bronze and terracotta, metal objects of various kinds, and engraved cylinders and gems, have been almost the only undoubted Babylonian antiquities hitherto brought to Europe.
— from Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon by Austen Henry Layard

There were only two of us, Bab, and we got clean off with the plunder.
— from Mohawks: A Novel. Volume 1 of 3 by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

While the Pennsylvania traders were establishing posts on the Ohio, under British authority, the French were also busy.
— from Sir William Johnson and the Six Nations by William Elliot Griffis

By the edicts and mandates of Justinian, who was master of the Roman world, the supremacy of the Pope received the fullest sanction; and the highest authorities [pg 126] among the civilians and annalists of Rome, refer to these as evidence of the right of the Pope to the title of “Universal Bishop,” and date it from A. D. 533.
— from A Brief Commentary on the Apocalypse by Sylvester Bliss

But about the time of Uzziah begins a new era, that of written prophecy.
— from Companion to the Bible by E. P. (Elijah Porter) Barrows

At the time of Ulysses' birth (April 27, 1822) the family were living at Point Pleasant, Claremont County, Ohio.
— from Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers by J. Walker (Joseph Walker) McSpadden