| Ethical Fragments. | Page |
| | Vanity | 1 |
| Truths and Truisms | 3 |
| Beauty and Use | 5 |
| What is Soul? | 7 |
| The Philosophy of Happiness | 9 |
| Cheerfulness a Virtue | 10 |
| Intellect and Sympathy | 11 |
| Old Letters | 12 |
| The Point of Honour | 13 |
| Looking up | 14 |
| Authors | 14 |
| Thought and Theory | 15 |
| Impulse and Consideration | 16 |
| Principle and Expediency | 16 |
| Personality of the Evil Principle | 17 |
| The Catholic Spirit | 18 |
| Death-beds | 19 |
| Thoughts on a Sermon | 20 |
| Love and Fear of God | 22 |
| Social Opinion | 23 |
| Balzac | 23 |
| Political | 24 |
| Celibacy | 25 |
| Landor’s Wise Sayings | 26 |
| Justice and Generosity | 27 |
| Roman Catholic Converts | 28 |
| Stealing and Borrowing | 28 |
| Good and Bad | 29 |
| Italian Proverb. Greek Saying | 30 |
| Silent Grief | 31 |
| Past and Futur | 32 |
| Suicide. Countenance | 33 |
| Progress and Progression | 34 |
| Happiness in Suffering | 35 |
| Life in the Future | 36 |
| Strength. Youth | 38 |
| Moral Suffering | 40 |
| The Secret of Peace | 41 |
| Motives and Impulses | 42 |
| Principle and Passion | 43 |
| Dominant Ideas | 44 |
| Absence and Death | 45 |
| Sydney Smith. Theodore Hook | 46 |
| Werther and Childe Harold | 50 |
| Money Obligations | 52 |
| Charity. Truth | 53 |
| Women. Men | 55 |
| Compensation for Sorrow | 57 |
| Religion. Avarice | 57 |
| Genius. Mind | 59 |
| Hieroglyphical Colours | 60 |
| Character | 61 |
| Value of Words | 62 |
| Nature and Art | 64 |
| Spirit and Form | 67 |
| Penal Retribution. The Church | 68 |
| Woman’s Patriotism | 70 |
| Doubt. Curiosity | 71 |
| Tieck. Coleridge | 71 |
| Application of a Bon Mot of Talleyrand | 73 |
| Adverse Individualities | 75 |
| Conflict in Love | 76 |
| French Expressions | 77 |
| Practical and Contemplative Life | 78 |
| Joanna Baillie. Macaulay’s Ballads | 80 |
| Cunning | 80 |
| Browning’s Paracelsus | 81 |
| Men, Women, and Children | 84 |
| Letters | 100 |
| Madame de Staël. Dejà | 103 |
| Thought too free | 105 |
| Good Qualities, not Virtues | 106 |
| Sense and Phantasy | 107 |
| Use the Present | 108 |
| Facts | 109 |
| Wise Sayings | 111 |
| Pestilence of Falsehood | 112 |
| Signs instead of Words. Relations with the World | 113 |
| Milton’s Adam and Eve | 115 |
| Thoughts, sundry | 116 |
| A Revelation of Childhood | 117 |
| The Indian Hunter and the Fire; an Allegory | 147 |
| Poetical Fragments | 152 |
