Danger in apparent safety, 68. Dangers of vanity, 125. Death in life, 8. Defective education, 118. Depression after exaltation, 56. Developing power of love, 11. Different temperaments, 108. Difficulty of confession, 76. Difficulty of criticism, 165. Difficulty of inspiring others, 34. Difficulty of self-knowledge, 62. Discipline, 12, 19. Discipline of patience, 49. Doing our _own_ work, 133. Doubt, 50. Dreams, 35. Dual nature, 71. Duty _vs._ expediency, 57. Early New England society, 180. Earnestness of the New England people, 171. Educating boys for husbands, 131. Education of man and woman, 119. Effect of harshness, 73. Effect of sinning, 60. Ennobling power of sorrow, 50. Exaction, 102. Expression of love, 21. Expressive silence, 58. Faculty, 173, 187. Faith, not sight, 14. Family worship, 185. Fate, 110. Fine natures perverted, 75. First false step, 77. First principles of home-making, 24. First steps, 74. Fitful persons, 20. Flattery, 189. Flaws in gems, 81. Flowers, 145. Forcing a daughter, 101. Forgiveness of friends, 51. French conversation, 190. French nature, 56. Friends, 50. Friendly gossip, 80. From different standpoints, 75. Garrets, 174. Gems, 136. Genial and ungenial natures, 69. Getting used to the world, 106. Girls’ confidences, 93. God as an artist, 46. God’s comfort, 53. God’s cordials, 14. God’s sympathy, 27. God’s tests, 5. God working through man, 52. Good and evil inseparable, 74. Good wherever we seek it, 34. Gossip, 83. Grace in affliction, 45. Greek, 161. Growing alike, 70. Growth from within, 16. Habit, 118. Heart-wisdom _vs._ worldly wisdom, 27. Heaven, 192. Heavenly children, 116. Hebrew literature, 159. Heimweh, 19, 47. Help in sorrow, 26. Help from work, 51. Heredity, 79. His own house, 192. Hobbies, 115. Holiness of age, 15. Holiness of infancy, 108. Holiness of woman, 84. Home education, 122. Honoring mother, 127. Household fairies, 189. Human error, 118. Human nettles, 81. Hymns, 163, 170. Idealizing our work, 130. Idealizing power of love, 13. Idle talk, 88. Ignorant selfishness, 55. Immutability of nature’s laws, 132. Impossibility of evading trouble, 82. Individuality, 38, 90, 121. Individuality in children, 107. Inexplicable preferences, 42. Influence, 27. Influence of the invisible, 4. Influence of a mother’s prayer, 29. Influence of heredity and associations, 59. Influence of surroundings, 155. Influence of the Bible, 160. Inner life, 52. Innocence, 37. Inspiration, 38. Intemperance, 124. Intuition, 100. Inward peace, 45. “I told you so,” 82. Joy in endurance, 44. Joy of living, 57. “Keep straight on,” 119. Lack of religious instruction, 131.