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.