Reserve, 91. Reserve not understood, 62. Restrictions of the body on the soul, 2. Responsibility, 11. Reverence the basis of faith, 88. Righteousness through repentance, 82. Right side of human nature, 81. Romance, 158. Rough exterior, 176. Rubens and Shakespeare, 166. Sacred music, 162. Saintliness, 25. Scepticism, 60. ’Scuses, 73. Seeing and feeling, 47. Seeing the bright side, 48. Self-deception, 1, 68. Self-forgetfulness, 40. Self-ignorance, 31. Selfish love, 58. Selfishness, 100. Self-sacrifice, 39. Selling their disadvantages, 183. Sensitive natures, 110. Sensitiveness to blame, 55. Shadow, 46. Shyness of love, 64. Silence of deep emotion, 37. Silent companionship, 15. Silent influence, 127. Simple honesty _vs._ worldliness, 56. Simplicity, 114. Sincerity and courtesy, 189. Sorrow an educator, 38. Sorrow a preparation for love, 34. Soul-absorption, 2. Soul-communion, 1. Soul-growth, 12. Soul-language, 78. Soul-relation, 18. Soul-striving, 46. Speaking as a friend, 73. Starting right, 128. Starved faculties, 130. Streaked men, 74. Strength of despair, 39. Struggling for higher things, 14. Sublimity in nature, 148. Suffering in silence, 44. Summer rain, 155. Summer studies, 156. Sunshine of the heart, 35. Superiority, 27. Superstition, 40. Suppression, 101. Sweetness, 92. Sympathy, 1, 18, 27, 31, 33. Sympathy through sorrow, 7. Tact, 93. Taught by suffering, 29. Teachings of suffering, 25. The artist as prophet, 165. The artist’s mission, 163. The art of home-making, 96. The Bible, 161. The brook in winter, 137. The calm of God’s love, 53. The child as teacher, 112. The company room, 188. The curfew, 187. The divine ideal, 10. The do-nothing, 176. The education of the parent, 122. The effect of Christianity, 167. The farmhouse, 182. The Germans, 190. The human soul, 41. The ideal and the practical, 9. The kitchen, 171. The kitchen fireplace, 186. The lesson of faith, 32. The morning star, 141. The mother in every woman, 89. The mysterious in nature, 146. The negro love of beauty, 72. The New England wife-mother, 100. The object of life, 30. The odd one, 105. The oleander, 143. The reserve power of quietness, 91. The right side and the wrong, 144. The right way to study, 128. The Sabbath, 179. The sea, 134. The spirit within, 53. The strongest passions, 35. The study of a new language, 161. The summit of Vesuvius, 140. The sunrise, 135. The turning-point in life, 128. The turn of the tide, 188. The universal book, 164. The world’s injustice, 57. Throwing away happiness, 64. Too much heart, 68. Transient uplifting, 36. Transition periods, 43. Trees in winter, 138. True beauty, 101. True courage, 91.