GOD. 'I am glad that he thanks God for anything,' i. 287.
GOES ON. 'He goes on without knowing how he is to get off,' ii. 196.
GOOD. 'Sir, my being so _good_ is no reason why you should be so _ill_,'
iii. 268; 'Everybody loves to have good things furnished to them,
without any trouble,' iv. 90;
'I am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was
formerly,' iv. 239;
'A look that expressed that a good thing was coming,' iii. 425.
GRACES. 'Every man of any education would rather be called a rascal
than accused of deficiency in the graces,' iii. 54.
GRAND. 'Grand nonsense is insupportable,' i. 402.
GRATIFIED. 'Not highly _gratified_, yet I do not recollect to have
passed many evenings with _fewer objections_,' ii, 130.
GRAVE. 'We shall receive no letters in the grave,' iv. 413.
GRAZED. 'He is the richest author that ever grazed the common of
literature,' i. 418, n. 1.
GREAT. 'A man would never undertake great things could he be amused
with small,' iii. 242;
'I am the great Twalmley,' iv. 193.
GREYHOUND. 'He sprang up to look at his watch like a greyhound
bounding at a hare,' ii. 460.
GRIEF. 'All unnecessary grief is unwise,' iii. 136;
'Grief has its time,' iv. 121;
'Grief is a species of idleness,' iii. 136, n. 2.
GUINEA. 'He values a new guinea more than an old friend,' v. 315;
'There go two and forty sixpences to one guinea,' ii. 201, n. 3.
GUINEAS. 'He cannot coin guineas but in proportion as he has gold,'
v. 229.
H.
HANDS. 'A man cutting off his hands for fear he should steal,'
ii. 435;
'I would rather trust my money to a man who has no hands, and
so a physical impossibility to steal, than to a man of the most
honest principles,' iv. 224.
HANGED. 'A friend hanged, and a cucumber pickled,' ii. 94;
'Do you think that a man the night before he is to be hanged cares
for the succession of a royal family?' iii. 270;
'He is not the less unwilling to be hanged,' iii. 295;
'If he were once fairly hanged I should not suffer,' ii. 94;
'No man is thought the worse of here whose brother was hanged,' ii.
177;
'So does an account of the criminals hanged yesterday entertain
us,' iii. 318;
'I will dispute very calmly upon the probability of another man's
son being hanged,' iii. 11;
'You may as well ask if I hanged myself to-day,' iv. 173;
'Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a
fortnight it concentrates his mind wonderfully,' iii. 167.
HAPPINESS. 'These are only struggles for happiness,' iii. 199.
HAPPY. 'It is the business of a wise man to be happy,' iii. 135.
HARASSED. 'We have been harassed by invitations,' v. 395.
HARE. 'My compliments, and I'll dine with him, hare or rabbit,'
iii. 207.
HATE. 'Men hate more steadily than they love,' iii. 150.
HATER. 'He was a very good hater,' i. 190, n. 2.
HEAD. 'A man must have his head on something, small or great,' ii.
473, n. 1.
HEADACHE. 'At your age I had no headache,' i. 462;
'Nay, Sir, it was not the wine that made your head ache, but the
sense that I put into it,' iii. 381.
HEAP. 'The mighty heap of human calamity,' iii. 289, n. 3.
HELL. 'Hell is paved with good intentions,' ii. 360.
HERMIT. 'Hermit hoar in solemn cell,' iii. 159.
HIDE. 'Exert your whole care to hide any fit of anxiety,' iii. 368.
HIGH. 'Here is a man six feet high and you are angry because he is
not seven,' v. 222.
HIGHLANDS. 'Who can like the Highlands?' v. 377.
HISS. Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's
having the hiss of the world against him,' i. 451.
HISTORIES. 'This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative
of misery,' iv. 362.
HOG. 'Yes, Sir, for a hog,' iv. 13.
HOGSTYE. 'He would tumble in a hogstye as long as you looked at him,
and called to him to come out,' i. 432.
HOLE. 'A man may hide his head in a hole ... and then complain
he is neglected,' iv. 172.
HONESTLY. 'I who have eaten his bread will not give him to him;
but I should be glad he came honestly by him,' v. 277.
_Honores. 'Honores mutant mores_' iv. 130.
HONOUR. 'If you do not see the honour, I am sure I feel the disgrace'
(fathered on Johnson), iv. 342.
HOOKS. 'He has not indeed many hooks; but with what hooks he
has, he grapples very forcibly,' ii. 57.
HOPE. 'He fed you with a continual renovation of hope to end in
a constant succession of disappointment,' ii. 122.
HOTTENTOT. 'Sir, you know no more of our Church than a Hottentot,'
v. 382.
HOUSEWIFERY. 'The fury of housewifery will soon subside,' iv. 85, n. 2.
HUGGED. 'Had I known that he loved rhyme as much as you tell
me he does, I should have hugged him,' i. 427.
HUMANITY. 'We as yet do not enough understand the common
rights of humanity,' iv. 191, 284.
HUNG. 'Sir, he lived in London, and hung loose upon Society,' i. 226.
HUNTED. 'Am I to be hunted in this manner?' iv. 170.
HURT. 'You are to a certain degree hurt by knowing that even
one man does not believe,' iii. 380.
HYPOCRISY. 'I hoped you had got rid of all this hypocrisy of
misery,' iv. 71.
HYPOCRITE. 'No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures,' iv. 316.
I.
I. 'I put my hat upon my head,' ii. 136, n. 4.
IDEA. 'That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that
is a wrong one,' ii. 126;
'There is never one idea by the side of another,' iv. 225.
IDLE. 'If we were all idle, there would be no growing weary,' ii. 98;
'We would all be idle if we could,' iii. 13.
IDLENESS. 'I would rather trust his idleness than his fraud,' v. 263.
IGNORANCE. 'A man may choose whether he will have abstemiousness
and knowledge, or claret and ignorance,' iii. 335;
'He did not know enough of Greek to be sensible of his ignorance
of the language,' iv. 33, n. 3;
'His ignorance is so great I am afraid to show him the bottom of
it,' iv. 33, n. 3
'Ignorance, Madam, pure ignorance,' i. 293;
'Sir, you talk the language of ignorance,' ii. 122.
IGNORANT. 'The ignorant are always trying to be cunning,' v.
217, n. 1;
'We believe men ignorant till we know that they are learned,'
v. 253.
ILL. 'A man could not write so ill if he should try,' iii. 243.
ILL-FED. 'It is as bad as bad can be; it is ill-fed, ill-killed,
ill-kept and ill-drest,' iv. 284.
IMAGERY. 'He that courts his mistress with Roman imagery deserves
to lose her,' v. 268, n. 2.
IMAGINATION. 'There is in them what _was_ imagination,' i. 421;
'This is only a disordered imagination taking a different turn,'
iii. 158.
IMMORTALITY. 'If it were not for the notion of immortality he would
cut a throat to fill his pockets,' ii. 359.
IMPARTIAL. 'Foote is quite impartial, for he tells lies of everybody,'
ii. 434.
IMPORTS. 'Let your imports be more than your exports, and you'll
never go far wrong,' iv. 226.
IMPOSSIBLE. 'That may be, Sir, but it is impossible for you to
know it,' ii. 466, n. 3;
'I would it had been impossible,' ii. 409, n. 1.
IMPOTENCE. 'He is narrow, not so much from avarice as from impotence
to spend his money,' iii. 40.
IMPRESSIONS. 'Do not accustom yourself to trust to impressions,'
iv. 122.
IMPUDENCE. 'An instance how far impudence could carry ignorance,'
iii. 390.
INCOMPRESSIBLE. 'Foote is the most incompressible fellow that I
ever knew,' &c., v. 391.
INDIA. 'Nay, don't give us India,' v. 209.
INEBRIATION. 'He is without skill in inebriation,' iii. 389.
INFERIOR. 'To an inferior it is oppressive; to a superior it is
insolent,' v. 73.
INFERIORITY. 'There is half a guinea's worth of inferiority to
other people in not having seen it,' ii. 169.
INFIDEL. 'If he be an infidel he is an infidel as a dog is an infidel,'
ii. 95;
'Shunning an infidel to-day and getting drunk to-morrow' (A
celebrated friend), iii. 410.
INGRAT. 'Je fais cent mecontens et un ingrat' (Voltaire), ii. 167,
n. 3.
INNOVATION. 'Tyburn itself is not safe from the fury of innovation,'
iv. 188.
INSIGNIFICANCE. 'They will be tamed into insignificance,' v. 148, n. 1.
INSOLENCE. 'Sir, the insolence of wealth will creep out,' iii. 316.
INTENTION. 'We cannot prove any man's intention to be bad,' ii. 12.
INTREPIDITY. 'He has an intrepidity of talk, whether he understands
the subject or not,' v. 330.
INVERTED. 'Sir, he has the most _inverted_ understanding of any man
whom I have ever known,' iii. 379.
IRONS. 'The best thing I can advise you to do is to put your
tragedy along with your irons,' iii. 259, n. 1.
IRRESISTIBLY. 'No man believes himself to be impelled irresistibly,'
iv. 123.
IT. 'It is not so. Do not tell this again,' iii. 229.
J.
JACK. 'If a jack is seen, a spit will be presumed,' ii. 215, n. 4;
iii. 461.
JACK KETCH. 'Dine with Jack Wilkes, Sir! I'd as soon dine with
Jack Ketch' (Boswell), iii. 66.
JEALOUS. 'Little people are apt to be jealous,' iii. 55.
JOKE. 'I may be cracking my joke, and cursing the sun,' iv. 304.
JOKES. 'A game of jokes is composed partly of skill, partly of
chance,' ii. 231.
JOSTLE. 'Yes, Sir, if it were necessary to jostle him _down_,' ii. 443.
JOSTLED. 'After we had been jostled into conversation,' iv. 48, n. 1.
JUDGE. 'A judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs,'
ii. 344.
JURY. 'Consider, Sir, how should you like, though conscious of your
innocence, to be tried before a jury for a capital crime once a
week,' iii. 11.
K.
KEEP. 'You _have_ Lord Kames, keep him,' ii. 53.
KINDNESS. 'Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness,'
iv. 115;
'To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of
life,' iii. 182.
KNEW. 'George the First knew nothing and desired to know nothing;
did nothing, and desired to do nothing,' ii. 342.
KNOCKED. 'He should write so as he may _live_ by them, not so as he
may be knocked on the head,' ii. 221.
KNOWING. 'It is a pity he is not knowing,' ii. 196.
KNOWLEDGE. 'A desire of knowledge is the natural feeling of mankind,'
i. 458;
'A man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home
knowledge,' iii. 302.
L.
LABOUR. 'It appears to me that I labour when I say a good thing,'
iii. 260; v. 77;
'No man loves labour for itself,' ii. 99.
LACE. 'Let us not be found, when our Master calls us, ripping the
lace off our waistcoats, but the spirit of contention from our souls
and tongues,' iii. 188, n. 4.
LACED COAT. 'One loves a plain coat, another loves a laced coat,'
ii. 192.
LACED WAISTCOAT. If everybody had laced waistcoats we should
have people working in laced waistcoats,' ii. 188.
_Laetus. 'Aliis laetus, sapiens sibi_,' iii. 405.
LANGUAGES. 'Languages are the pedigree of nations,' v. 225.
LATIN. 'He finds out the Latin by the meaning, rather than the
meaning by the Latin,' ii. 377.
LAWYERS. 'A bookish man should always have lawyers to converse
with,' iii. 306.
LAY. 'Lay your knife and your fork across your plate,' ii. 51.
LAY OUT. 'Sir, you cannot give me an instance of any man who is
permitted to lay out his own time contriving not to have tedious
hours,' ii. 194.
LEAN. 'Every heart must lean to somebody,' i. 515.
LEARNING. 'He had no more learning than what he could not help,'
iii. 386;
'I am always for getting a boy forward in his learning,' iii. 385;
'I never frighten young people with difficulties [as to learning],'
v. 316;
'Their learning is like bread in a besieged town; every man gets
a little, but no man gets a full meal,' ii. 363.
LEGS. 'Sir, it is no matter what you teach them first, any more than
what leg you shall put into your breeches first,' i. 452;
'A man who loves to fold his legs and have out his talk,' iii. 230;
'His two legs brought him to that,' v. 397.
LEISURE. 'If you are sick, you are sick of leisure,' iv. 352.
LEVELLERS. 'Your levellers wish to level _down_ as far as themselves;
but they cannot bear levelling _up_ to themselves,' i. 448.
LEXICOGRAPHER. 'These were the dreams of a poet doomed at last
to wake a lexicographer,' v. 47, n. 2.
LIAR. 'The greatest liar tells more truth than falsehood,' iii. 236.
LIBEL. 'Boswell's _Life of Johnson_ is a new kind of libel'
(Dr. Blagden), iv. 30, n. 2.
_Liber. 'Liber ut esse velim,_' &c., i. 83, n. 3.
LIBERTY. 'All _boys_ love liberty,' iii. 383;
'I am at liberty to walk into the Thames,' iii. 287;
'Liberty is as ridiculous in his mouth as religion in mine' (Wilkes),
iii. 224;
'No man was at liberty not to have candles in his windows,' iii. 383;
'People confound liberty of thinking with liberty of talking,' ii. 249.
LIBRARIES, 'A robust genius born to grapple with whole libraries'
(Dr. Boswell), iii. 7.
LIE. 'Do the devils lie? No; for then Hell could not subsist'
(attributed to Sir Thomas Browne), iii. 293;
'He carries out one lie; we know not how many he brings
back,' iv. 320;
'If I accustom a servant to tell a lie for _me_, have I not reason
to apprehend that he will tell many lies for himself?' i. 436;
'Sir, If you don't lie, you are a rascal' (Colman), iv. 10;
'It is only a wandering lie,' iv. 49, n. 3;
'It requires no extraordinary talents to lie and deceive,' v. 217;
'Never lie in your prayers' (Jeremy Taylor), iv. 295.
LIED. 'Why, Sir, I do not know that Campbell ever lied with pen
and ink,' iii. 244.
LIES. 'Campbell will lie, but he never lies on paper,' i. 417, n. 5;
'Knowing as you do the disposition of your countrymen to tell
lies in favour of each other,' ii. 296;
'He lies and he knows he lies,' iv. 49;
'The man who says so lies,' iv. 273;
'There are inexcusable lies and consecrated lies,' i. 355.
