Numbers, Easily impress us, 1450

Oats, Reply to Dr. Johnson's definition of, 1451

Obedience, Most important word in education, 1452
One of most beautiful things, 1453
Wise, modest, 1454

Obligation, Haste to discharge, sort of ingratitude, 1455
Most men remember, etc., 1456
Published, paid, 1457

Obscurity, People newly out of, etc., 1458

Obstinacy, Is will asserting itself, 1459

Occupation, Thrice happy those who have, 1460
A man should follow, 1461

Ocean, The abode of the British, 1462

Odd, Peculiar people, disagreeable, 1463

Offense, How people oftenest offend, 1464

Office, Power of, dog even obeyed in, 1465
Bad man in, public calamity, 1466

Omissions, No less than commissions, 1467

Opinion, It has been shrewdly said, 1468
No liberal man, 1469

Opportunities, Often lost by want of self-confidence, 1470
Past gone, future may never come, 1471

Opportunity, Let slip, proof of imbecility, 1472
Loss of, what lost by, 1473
Master of human destiny, 1474
Not seized, flies away, 1475
Poor use of, instance, 1476
Often lost by deliberation, 1477
Take the current when it serves, 1478
The, neglected, 1479
To-day it is offered, 1480

Oppressors, There are sharks in the ocean, 1481

Orators, All, are dumb, when beauty, 1482

Parent, Ambitious, misdirect children, 1483
Be not ashamed, if yours, humble, 1484
Effect of neglect of children, by, 1485
Remember not toil endured for, 1486

Parents, Good conduct of, blesses children, 1487
If fools, apt to make children so, 1488
We know not their worth, till lost, 1489

Parting, Like ships on the sea, 1490
Proves a kind of anguish, 1491

Passion, Control yours, 1492
Nothing like silence, 1493

Past, Comes not back, witness three things, 1494
Let by-gones be, 1495
Stirs man more than future, 1496

Path, Beaten, safe one, 1497

Pearl, Often hidden in ugly shell, 1498

Pen, The tongue of the mind, 1499

People, How to wake them, 1500

Perfection, Not in this world, 1501

Permanence, As the sun's shadow shifts, 1502

Perseverance, Makes mole-hills of mountains, 1503
Scottish, proverbial, 1504

Persistence, Necessity of, 1505

Petitions, Strengthened by gold, 1506

Philanthropy, Its satisfaction, 1507
True instance of, 1508

Phillips, Wendall, anecdote of, 1509