us diet of active sympathetic
benevolence

Oblivion as residuary legatee

Oblivion's Uncatalogued Library

Odious trick of speech or manners must
be got rid of.

Oh, so patient she is, this
imperturbable Nature!

Old Age

Old age appear as a series of personal
insults and indignities

Old jokes are dynamometers of mental
tension

One very sad thing in old friendships

One whose patients are willing to die
in his hands

One doesn't like to be cruel,--and yet
one hates to lie

One that goes in a nurse may come out
an angel

One can generally tell these wholesale
thieves easily enough

Open patches where the sun gets in and
goes to sleep

Oracle

Original, though you have uttered it a
hundred times

Ought to produce insanity in every
well-regulated mind

Our brains are seventy-year clocks

Overrate their own flesh and blood

Painted there by reflection from our
faces

Passion never laughs

People in the green stage of millionism

People that make puns are like wanton
boys

Person is really full of information,
and does not abuse it

Personal incidents that call up single
sharp pictures

Physical necessity to talk out what is
in the mind

Picket-guard at the extreme outpost

Plagiarism

Pluck survives stamina

Poem must be kept and used, like a
meerschaum, or a violin

Poetry, instead of making one other
heart happy

Poetry of words is quite as beautiful
as that of sentences

Poor creature that does not often
repeat himself

Poverty is evidence of limited capacity

Power of human beings is a very
strictly limited agency

Power of music

Pretensions of presumptuous ignorance

Pride, in the sense of contemning
others

Probabilities

Project a principle full in the face of
obvious fact!

Provincial conceit, which some of us
must plead guilty to.

Pseudo-science

Pseudological inanity

Public itself, which insists on being
poisoned

Pun is prima facie an insult

Put coppers on the railroad-tracks

Qu'est ce qu'il a fait? What has he
done?

Quackery and idolatry are all but
immortal

Question everything

Racing horses are essentially gambling
implements

Rapidity with which ideas grow old in
our memories

Rather meet three of the scowlers than
one of the smilers.

Rather longer than usual dressing that
morning

Regained my freedom with a sigh

Religious mental disturbances

Remarkably intelligent audience

Remarks like so