Plato, quoted, 9, 10, 19, 34, 203, 247, 261, 263. Platonic friendships, 235. Play, measure of its value, 117. Pleasure, definitions of, 15, 80, 264; and pain, how connected, 16, 55, 263, 265, 277; from reflection, 162. Pleasure-pain sensation, the, 266. Pleasures, relative value of, 21; sources of, 24. Plot-interest, as a pleasure, 152. Poetry, pleasure of reading, 161; of science, 177. Polygamy, injurious results of, 241. Politeness, its value, 222. Politics, why avoided in society, 226. Polycrates, story of, 97. Pope, quoted, 54. Poverty, the worst of, 127. Prayer, the universal, 118; refreshes the mind, 180. Property, as an incentive, 118. Pursuit, the emotions of, 153; of happiness, explained, 54; conclusion of, 278. Puzzles and riddles, pleasure of, 158. Quakers, the, 176, 179, 232. Quincy, Thomas de, quoted, 201. Racial characteristics, 60. Rasselas, quoted, 12, 110. Reading, as an enjoyment, 139; rules for, 159. Reason and religion, 177. Recamier, Madame, her friendship, 235. Recreations, the best, 115. Reflection, pleasure from, 162. Religion, happiness from, 169, 172; unhappiness from, 171, 173; true spirit of, 175; of the future, 176, 179, 232; why not mentioned in society, 226. Remorse, the pains of, 147. Reserve, value of, 189; a help to reputation, 226. Resignation, the virtue of, 259. Respectability, the revolt against, 45, 46. Revenge, as a pleasure, 148. Riches, effective and productive, 120; disappointments of, 126. Risk, the emotions of, 153. Room, the living, 83. Rothschild, Baron, opinion of, 99. Rousseau, quoted, 28, 84. Rules for happiness, why studied, 54. Ruskin, J., quoted, 187. Schopenhauer, A., quoted, 44. Science, the love of, 166; the aim of, 176; and religion, 177; of man, the, 54, 68. Security, how obtained, 196. Self-abnegation, 24. Self-admiration, 191. Self-complacency, 192. Self, conception of, 17; the lord of, 61. Self-conceit corrected, 186. Self-consciousness, 17, 20, 52. Self-control, 24. Self-distrust, appropriate, 194. Self-education, principles of, 36. Self-publication, 226. Self-realization, 17, 56. Self recognition, 204. Self-revelation not self-publication, 226. Self-reverence, 189. Self-sufficiency, 47. Senancour, de, quoted, 43. Seneca, quoted, 19. Sensation the sense of existence, 140. Senses, the pleasures of, 128. Sex, origin of, 60. Shakespeare, quoted, 50, 51, 62, 100, 103, 118, 121, 122, 157, 241, 277. Sight, the pleasures of, 138. Sincerity, importance of, 189. Singularity, what it is, 192. Small-talk, its value, 224. Smell, the pleasures of, 132. Smith, Adam, quoted, 210. Smith, Sydney, quoted, 141, 201. Social organization, the, 196. Socialists, the dreams of, 115, 183.