Chapter II: Part I: Ethics and Character

ETHICAL FRAGMENTS. Page

Vanity 1

Truths and Truisms 3

Beauty and Use 5

What is Soul? 7

The Philosophy of Happiness 9

Cheerfulness a Virtue 10

Intellect and Sympathy 11

Old Letters 12

The Point of Honour 13

Looking up 14

Authors 14

Thought and Theory 15

Impulse and Consideration 16

Principle and Expediency 16

Personality of the Evil Principle 17

The Catholic Spirit 18

Death-beds 19

Thoughts on a Sermon 20

Love and Fear of God 22

Social Opinion 23

Balzac 23

Political 24

Celibacy 25

Landor's Wise Sayings 26

Justice and Generosity 27

Roman Catholic Converts 28

Stealing and Borrowing 28

Good and Bad 29

Italian Proverb. Greek Saying 30

Silent Grief 31

Past and Future 32

Suicide. Countenance 33

Progress and Progression 34

Happiness in Suffering 35

Life in the Future 36

Strength. Youth 38

Moral Suffering 40

The Secret of Peace 41

Motives and Impulses 42

Principle and Passion 43

Dominant Ideas 44

Absence and Death 45

Sydney Smith. Theodore Hook 46

Werther and Childe Harold 50

Money Obligations 52

Charity. Truth 53

Women. Men 55

Compensation for Sorrow 57

Religion. Avarice 57

Genius. Mind 59

Hieroglyphical Colours 60

Character 61

Value of Words 62

Nature and Art 64

Spirit and Form 67

Penal Retribution. The Church 68

Woman's Patriotism 70

Doubt. Curiosity 71

Tieck. Coleridge 71

Application of a Bon Mot of Talleyrand 73

Adverse Individualities 75

Conflict in Love 76

French Expressions 77

Practical and Contemplative Life 78

Joanna Baillie. Macaulay's Ballads 80

Cunning 80

Browning's Paracelsus 81

Men, Women, and Children 84

Letters 100

Madame de Staël. Dejà 103

Thought too free 105

Good Qualities, not Virtues 106

Sense and Phantasy 107

Use the Present 108

Facts 109

Wise Sayings 111

Pestilence of Falsehood 112

Signs instead of Words. Relations with the World 113

Milton's Adam and Eve 115

Thoughts, sundry 116

A REVELATION OF CHILDHOOD 117

THE INDIAN HUNTER AND THE FIRE;
an Allegory 147

POETICAL FRAGMENTS 152

Theological.

THE HERMIT AND THE MINSTREL 155

Pandemonium 158

Southey on the Religious Orders 162

Forms in Religion--Image Worship 164

Religious Differences 165

Expansive Christianity 169

NOTES FROM VARIOUS SERMONS:--

A Roman Catholic Sermon 172

Another 176

Church of England Sermon 178

Another 181

Dissenting Sermon 187

Father Taylor of Boston 188