Language of the Bible, 167. Latent caloric, 22. Laws of prayer, 4. Learning to love, 25. Letters, 163. Letting go, 119. Life, 60. Life an engrossing interest, 176. Life as a play, 60. Life renewed, 18. Limitation, 20. Limit of responsibility, 130. Line between right and wrong, 50. Little things, 188. Living together, 28. Longing for love in the unlovely, 47. Looking through blue glasses, 66. Lost confidence, 75. Lost innocence irrecoverable, 35. Love a sacrament, 5. Love a test, 21. Love of a bargain, 65. Love of solitude, 109. Making people like us, 67. Making the best of it, 59, 121. Man’s childish impatience, 49. Marks of genius, 77. Maternal element in woman’s love, 93. Meditations of the oak, 136. Memory, 9. Ministering spirits, 28. Minor modulations, 9. Mischief, 108. Miss Prissy’s motto, 3. Modern saints, 94. Moral atmosphere, 39. Moral courage, 131. Moral earnestness, 13. Moral inheritance, 15. Morbid feelings, 64. Moss, 144. Mother-love for a son, 86. Mother pride, 112. Mother’s inconsiderateness, 87. Mother’s intuition, 88. Mother’s work, 89. Mountain air, 146. Mountain brooks, 149. Music the language of Italy, 164. Naïveté, 34. Natural and moral elevation, 139. Natural religious sensibility, 40. Nature’s anguish, 150. Nature’s lesson on love, 142. Need of home attractions, 122. Neighbors’ influence, 91. Nervous sensibility, 37. New England nobility, 177. New England spring, 151. New England theology, 171. New England the parent of the West, 175. New England winter, 154. Night resolutions, 43. October in New England, 135. Opinionated people, 76. Orderliness, 104. Our Charley, 115. Our thoughts in others’ words, 169. Patient waiting, 126. Peace through suffering, 52. Perfect faith, 10. Perfection in little things, 123. Persistence, 72. Persistency, 81. Personal magnetism, 12, 59. Personality, 80. Phases of nature, 148. Physical good-humor, 60. Physiognomy of a house, 191. Pines, 151. Poetry and prose, 116. Power of a tone, 59. Power of an honest character, 71. Power of beauty, 70. Power of inward emotion, 168. Power of mind over body, 38. Power of real love, 85. Power of song, 43. Power of sympathy, 33. Practical and ideal, 41. Praise and blame, 52. Privileged truth-tellers, 68. Proof of heaven, 43. Prophecy and revelation, 164. Pure joy, 108. Puritan music, 168. Quiet children, 107. Reaction of harshness, 49. Reading only for amusement, 161. Real conversation, 104. Real love, 62. Real music, 167. Recreation, 121. Regret, 23. Relation of age to youth, 72. Religious development, 185. Religious instruction at home, 124. Rembrandt and Hawthorne, 166. Repression, 5, 17, 87, 117, 179. Reproach, 51.