Montaigne, difference in opinions, 5; of laws and events, 6; action of seeing outward, 12; a pattern within ourselves, 22; the virtue of the soul, 23; curing public evils, 25; conduct of lecturers in the courts of philosophy, 41; nature starting up, 47; how estimated by his neighbors, 154; faith in physicians, 208; the fairest lives, in his opinion, 346; the thoughts and actions of man, 375; on distrusting our own judgments, 382. Montespan, Madame de, to Madame de Maintenon, 34; rigorous devotion of, 268. Montesquieu, a laborious writer, 125. Moore, the lady and the second volume of the Life of Byron, by, 54; seventy lines a week's work for, 128; pride and independence of, 140; story of the jeweled lady, 165; trick of Father Prout at the expense of, 176; of Scott and Waverley, 191; and the opera of Tarare, 221; and Lalla Rookh, 251; of the authorship of the Junius letters, 257; statement relating to Sheridan, 267. More, Hannah, her opinion of Milton's sonnets, 146. More, Sir Thomas, a fierce persecutor, 245; Morris, Robert, imprisoned for debt, 256. Mosheim, a sentence from an old album, 347. Mother Goose's Melodies, 206. Motley, effects of the gout of Charles V., 8; Luther when angry, 47; Radbod and Bishop Wolfran, 100; the Netherlands, 107; long live the beggars! 110; Erasmus and Luther, 308. Mozart, declaration of, 30; his estimate of Haendel, 228. Mueller, Max, of children's fables, 160; when a man becomes conscious of a higher self, 355; of Christianity, 370. Nanac, the holy, and the Moslem priest, 368. Napoleon, what he said of Corneille, 153; a thing that puzzled him, 170; and Madame de Stael, 253; his fondness for Ossian, 261; remark to Bourienne, 297. Nature, goes her own way, 103. Neander, and Plutarch's Pedagogue, 265. Nero, sensitive to poetry and music, 33. Netherlands, the, Motley's description of, 107. Newton, Sir Isaac, confesses his ignorance, 30; his character illustrated, 105, 106, 107; neglected as a lecturer, 133; the story of the falling apple, 176; a poor accountant, 263; as a poet, 264. Newton, John, to the woman in prison, 55. Nicholls, a sensual clergyman, 43. Nimrod and the gnat, 302. Nollekens and the widow, 9. Norris, John, self-love, 13; our passions, 47. Northcote, and the pedantic coxcomb, 1; blaming himself to Kemble, 15; of two of his pictures, 190; of the conceited painter in the Sistine Chapel, 197. Olaf's mode of converting Eyvind, 52. Old Hundred, 204. Old Oaken Bucket, 248. Opinions, no two alike, 5; human, the history of, 7; bundles of contradictions, 8; of the same men at different times, 8. Orrery, Lord, story of Swift, 170. Owen, Robert, reply to Wilberforce, on putting off the happiness of mankind, 92. Oyster-eating, first act of, 169. Paley, what he thought of Tristram Shandy, 147. Palgrave, anecdotes of Abd-el-Lateef, 383. Panis, devoted to pheasants, 99.