Memory--Christmas--Her Sick Child--Man the Mighty at His Mother's
Knee--The Best Friend--"An Ounce of Mother Worth a Pound of Clergy"--A
Mother's Praise--The Dead--Unalterable Fidelity--Forgetting a Mother's
Claims--The Mother Still in Middle Life--The Mother of Greater
Years--The Mother of Mothers--She Gathered the Orphans Together and
Poured Out Her Tenderness Upon Them. Page 207.


Love.

A Great Passion, Therefore not one to Trifle and Be Familiar With--Its
Tyranny--Feelings and Actions of a Young Man in Love--Utter Uselessness
for Business of a Young Man During the Uncertain Period Between Desire
and Possession--Love Rules The Universe--How The Sages Look upon
Love--It Is But the Flash in the Broad Pan of True Happiness--Shakspeare,
Tennyson, Overbury, Mrs. Sigourney, South, Dryden, Plautus, Goethe, Burton,
Valerius Maximus, Rochefoucauld, Addison. Hazlitt and Emerson--"The Wooden
God's Remorse"--"Love Me Little Love Me Long"--The Poet Petrarch's Strange
Behavior--"If She Do not Care for Me, What Care I How Fair She Be!"
--LaFontaine, Lyttleton, Schiller, Ruffini, Ducoeur, DeStael, Colton,
Dudevant, Balzac, Moore, Beecher, Victor Hugo, Longfellow, Limayrac, Howe,
Deluzy and Jane Porter--"Solomon was So Seduced, and He Had a Very Good
Wit"--Alexander Smith--Great Space Given to Love in all the Books of the
World--Some Things to Remember While Viewing the Passion in Others.
Page 219.


Courtship.

The Young Man Finds Himself in Love and "Begins to Think"--He Wonders