Swetchine, Madame. Selections from
"Airelles" and "Thoughts," 437.
Swift, Jonathan. On good manners, 348.
Sympathy: If thou hast any sorrow, tell it
to thy confessor, or to some discreet
man (St. Louis), 175; He shall be sure
of shame that feeleth no grief in other
men's shames (Wyatt), 233.
System. See Order.

Table manners, Mediæval, 180.
Talebearing. See Gossip.
Talkativeness. See Speech.

Taste: Be common in nothing, above all
not in taste (Gracian), 285; A man that
has a taste of music, painting, and archi-
tecture is like one that has another sense
(Addison), 355. See, also, Refinement.
Teachableness: Train thy son to be a
teachable man (Ptah-hotep) 39 The fool-
ish despise instruction (Proverbs), 48;
From the experience of others learn wis-
dom (Chesterfield), 363. See, also, Edu-
cation.

Teachers, Conduct towards. See Elders.
Teaching. See Education.

Be not

Temper, Ill: See Anger, Good nature.
Temperance (in eating and drinking). -
Intemperance. Drunkenness. Glut-
tony: Wine is a mocker.
among winebibbers. . . . Look not upon
the wine (Proverbs), 55, 56; Drink thy
wine with a merry heart (Ecclesiastes),
61; Honor thy food; . . . avoid excess
(Manu), 67; One should not become a
drinker of intoxicating liquors.
Abstinence from strong drink, the great-
est blessing (Buddha), 78, 80; The
strength of the soul is temperance (Py-
thagoras), 93; Injunctions for keeping
the mean between excess and defect (Ar-
istotle), 108; Take not pleasure in much
good cheer (Ecclesiasticus), 121; Eat
and drink to quench the desires of na-
ture (Seneca), 142; If thou findest any-
thing better than temperance, &c., turn
to it (Marcus Aurelius), 158, 159; Eat that
ye may live.
Be careful in taking
wine (Maimonides), 169; The flesh is
tempted by delicious meats and drinks
(La Tour), 190; Take meat and drink in
measure (Wyclif), 195; Consider to thy-
self what nature requireth.
without surfeit. Drink without drunken-
ness (Rhodes), 205; Banish swinish
drunkards out of thine house (Burleigh),

Eat

240; Use moderate diet. . Seldom
drink wine (Sidney), 246; There never
was any man came to honor that loved
wine (Raleigh), 257; Without know-
ledge there can be no temperance (Essex-
Bacon), 275; Drunkenness makes way
for all vices (Quarles), 292; Be sober
and temperate, that you may truly
serve God, which you cannot well do
without health (Browne), 299, 300; It is
a piece of arrogance to dare to be drunk
(Halifax), 316; Resolved to maintain the
strictest temperance (Edwards), 368, 370;
Eat not to dullness; drink not to eleva-
tion (Franklin), 377, 379, 380, 381; Avoid
taverns, drinkers, smokers etc.

We

never repent of having eaten too little
(Jefferson), 409, 411; Temperance is the
third cardinal virtue (Lacordaire), 452.
See, also, Bodily Care.

Temperance (in the larger sense). See
Moderation.

Temptation: If sinners entice thee con-
sent not (Proverbs), 48; Be well occu-
pied, and no time idle, for the danger of
temptation (Wyclif), 195; More pure,
as tempted more (Wordsworth), 429;
Never place thyself in the way of temp-
tation in order to test thy strength
(Zschokke), 434; Tempt no man, lest
thou fall for it (Penn), 329.

Ten commandments. See Religious in-

junctions.

Thales, saying of, 76.

Thankfulness. See Gratitude.
Theatre. See Stage.

Theft Thou shalt not steal (Decalogue),
42; Ye shall not steal (Leviticus), 44;
If sinners entice thee consent not (Pro-
verbs), 48; One should not take that
which is not given (Buddha), 78; Com-
bine to put an end to thefts (Confucius),
101; Whether it be gold or little things
that one steals, the punishment is the
same (Ahikar), 104. See, also, Honesty.
Thomas à Kempis. Selections from "The
Little Garden of Roses," 202.
Thoreau, Henry David: On the making
of life deliberate and simple, 30, 462.
Thoughtlessness. See Earnestness, Pru-
dence.

Thoughts: Keep thought away from evil.
Let no man think lightly of evil
(Dhammapada), 82, 83; The soul is
dyed by the thoughts (Marcus Aurelius),
160; The hours of a wise man are length-

ened by his ideas (Addison), 355; All
that is wise has been thought already;
we must try, however, to think it again
(Goethe), 413.

Thrift.Economy: He that gathereth in
summer is a wise son. . . . He that loveth
pleasure shall be a poor man (Proverbs),
51, 55; If with a little thou a little blend
continual, mighty shall the heap ascend
(Hesiod), 75; Prize economy (Confucius),
101; Better garner with poverty than
squander with riches (Ahikar), 104; He
that spendeth much and getteth nought,
may be sorry, &c. (Rhodes), 208; Buy
when the markets and seasons serve
fittest (Burleigh), 241. See, also, Indus-
try, Expenditure.

Time: Undertake nothing which of neces-
sity takes up a great quantity of time
(Bacon), 269; Misspending time is a
kind of self-homicide (Halifax), 316;
Divide your day. Save a treasure of
time to yourself (Penn), 333; The cause
of all evils amongst men is the improper
use of time (Massillon), 345; Employ
the present without regretting the loss
of the past, or too much depending on
the time to come (Chesterfield), 362;
Resolved never to lose one moment (Ed-
wards), 366; Lose no time (Franklin),
378; Never put off till to-morrow what
you can do to-day (Jefferson), 411; It is
for the past and the future we must
work.... Use well the moment, &c.
(Goethe), 416, 417; Ordinary people
think how they shall spend their time;
a man of intellect tries to use it (Scho-
penhauer), 441; Time is but the stream

I

go a-fishing in (Thoreau), 464. See,
also, Life, Pleasure, Punctuality, Indus-
try.

Tobacco Have the courage to throw your
snuff-box into the fire (Stanislaus), 359.
Tolerance: I let every one enjoy his
opinion (Erasmus), 212; When I hear
another express an opinion which is not
mine, I say to myself, he has a right,
&c. (Jefferson), 408; Let us have heart
and head hospitality (Joubert), 419.
Tongue, The. See Speech.
Tranquillity. See Equanimity, Self-con-
trol.

Travel: I can see more in histories than

if I had rambled for twenty years (Eras-
mus), 215; Suffer not thy sons to pass
the Alps (Burleigh), 241; Let not your

minds be carried away with vain delights,
as with traveling into strange countries
(Lyly), 260; Study what use to make of
travel (Essex-Bacon), 270, 273.
Treachery. See Fidelity.
Triumph. See Contention.
Triviality: Those who bestow too much on
trifling things become incapable of great
ones. . . . Little minds are too much
hurt by little things (La Rochefoucauld),
310, 311; A man shows his character in
the way in which he deals with trifles
(Schopenhauer), 444; Our life is frit-
tered away by detail (Thoreau), 463.
Trust. -Faith. - Distrust. — -Credulity.-
Suspicion: Not e'en thy brother on his
word believe. Mistrust destroys us,

...

and credulity (Hesiod), 75; Open not
thy heart to every man (Ecclesiasticus),
119; Never put your trust in a stranger
(Mediæval precept), 178; Be not light of
credence, nor suspicious (Rhodes), 207;
Trust not any man with thy life, credit,
or estate (Burleigh), 243; Mistrust no
man without cause, neither be credulous
without proof (Lyly), 262; Do not be-
lieve and do not love lightly (Gracian),
286; Make writing the witness of your
contracts (Osborne), 294; It is more dis-
graceful to distrust friends than to be
deceived (La Rochefoucauld), 311; Only
trust thyself. ... Be not too credulous
(Penn), 327, 331, 335; Trust no man
until thou hast tried him; yet mistrust
not without reason (Chesterfield), 363;
Mankind are unco weak, an' little to be
trusted (Burns), 421. See, also, Anx-
iety.

Truth. Truthfulness. See Falsehood.

of yourself (Gracian), 286; Beware of
thinking yourself wiser or greater than
you are (Osborne), 294; Measure not
thyself by thy morning shadow, but by
the extent of thy grave. . . . Become
not thy own parasite. . . . Busy not thy
best member in the encomium of thyself
(Browne), 303, 304; Vanity is never at
its full growth till it spreadeth into af-
fectation (Halifax), 319; A man ought
not to value himself of his achievements,
&c. (Washington), 403; Let no one
think that people have waited for him
as for the Saviour (Goethe), 416; Our
vanity is the constant enemy of our
dignity (Swetchine), 437.

Veneration. See Filial Duty, Elders, Au-
thority, Honor, Religious Injunctions.
Venturing. See Prudence.

Vice. See Virtue, Chastity.
Victory. See Contention.

Violence. See Murder, Theft, Oppres-
sion, Cruelty.

Virtue : When passing to [the future
world]. virtue will thy only com-
rade be... . Virtue alone stays by
[one] at the tomb (Manu), 68; Steep the
ascent and rough the road [to where
Virtue dwells] (Hesiod), 72; By virtu-
ous use thy life and manners frame.

...

It is impossible to receive any gift
greater than virtue (Pythagoras), 89,
91; Virtue is a mean state between two
faulty states, of excess and defect (Aris-
totle), 110; Every virtue has its par-
ticular sweetness (Thomas à Kempis),
202; Endeavor to excel in virtue, seeing
in qualities of body we are inferior to
beasts (Lyly), 262; Pursue virtue vir-
tuously. Endeavor to make virtues
heroical.
Make not the conse-
quences of virtue the ends thereof
(Browne), 299, 300, 301; Plan for ac-
quiring habits of virtue (Franklin), 376;
All the virtues originate in actual wants;
all the vices in factitious ones (Swetch-
ine), 437; The four cardinal virtues
(Lacordaire), 452. See, also, Good, Good-
ness, Righteousness, Chastity.

-

Wastefulness. See Expenditure.
Wealth. See Riches.
Welsh Triads, 171.
Wickedness. Sinfulness. - Iniquity: A
wicked man is loathsome. . . . Wicked-
ness overthroweth the sinner.
The
lamp of the wicked shall be put out
(Proverbs), 53; Bad men are the most
rife (Bias), 76; It shall not be well with
the wicked (Ecclesiastes), 60; None sees
us, say the sinful; . . . the gods see
them, and the omniscient spirit within
their breasts. . The god of justice
and the heart itself. . . . Iniquity fails
not to yield its fruit (Manu), 66, 67;
Smooth is the track [to the mansion of
Sin] (Hesiod), 72; To cease from sin,
the greatest blessing (Buddha), 80.
Wife. See Marriage.

Willingness: Nothing is troublesome that
we do willingly (Jefferson), 411.
Wisdom: The attributes of a wise man
(Ptah-hotep), 39; Praise of wisdom
(Proverbs), 49-53; Wisdom is as good
as an inheritance.
Wisdom is a
defence (Ecclesiastes), 60; Worthless
he that Wisdom's voice defies (Hesiod),
72; The wise man is alone a priest
(Pythagoras), 90; Search for wisdom as
for silver (Maimonides), 166; Three
things produce wisdom: truth, consid-
eration, and suffering (Welsh Triad),
172; Be desirous of wisdom and apt to
learn it (Rhodes), 208; Rather go a hun-
dred miles to speak with a wise man
'than five to see a fair town (Essex-Ba-
con), 278; Follow not the tedious prac-
tice of such as seek wisdom only in learn-
ing (Osborne), 294; God send you speed,
still daily to grow wiser (Burns), 423.
See also, Knowledge, Teachableness,
Education.

Words. See Speech.

Wordsworth, William. Character of the
Happy Warrior, 429.
Work. See Industry.
Worry. See Anxiety.

Wotton, Sir Henry. The Happy Life, 282.
Wrath. See Anger.

178.