LUXURY.  ‘No nation was ever hurt by luxury,’ ii. 218.

LYING.  ’By his lying we lose not only our reverence for him, but all comfort in his conversation,’ iv. 178.

M.

MACHINE.  ’If a man would rather be the machine I cannot argue with him,’ v. 117.

MADE DISH.  ’As for Maclaurin’s imitation of a made dish, it was a wretched attempt,’ i. 469.

MADHOUSES.  ’If you should search all the madhouses in England, you would not find ten men who would write so, and think it sense,’ iv. 170.

MADNESS.  ’With some people gloomy penitence is only madness turned upside down,’ iii. 27.

MANKIND.  ‘As I know more of mankind I expect less of them,’ iv. 239.

MANY.  ‘Yes, Sir, many men, many women, and many children,’ i. 396.

MARKET.  ’A horse that is brought to market may not be bought, though he is a very good horse,’ iv. 172;
  ‘Let her carry her praise to a better market,’ iii. 293.

MARTYRDOM.  ‘Martyrdom is the test,’ iv. 12.

MAST.  ’A man had better work his way before the mast than read them through,’ iv. 308.

MEAL.  ‘He takes more corn than he can make into meal,’ iv. 98.

MEANLY.  ’Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea,’ iii. 265.

MEMORY.  ‘The true art of memory is the art of attention,’ iv. 126, n. 6.

MEN.  ‘Johnson was willing to take men as they are’ (Boswell), iii. 282.

MERCHANT.  ‘An English Merchant is a new species of gentleman,’ i. 491, n. 3.

MERIT.  ’Like all other men who have great friends, you begin to feel the pangs of neglected merit,’ iv. 248.

MERRIMENT.  ’It would be as wild in him to come into company without merriment, as for a highwayman to take the road without his pistols,’ iii. 389.

MIGHTY.  ‘There is nothing in this mighty misfortune,’ i. 422.

MILK.  ‘They are gone to milk the bull,’ i. 444.

MILLIONS.  ’The interest of millions must ever prevail over that of thousands,’ ii. 127.

MIND.  ‘A man loves to review his own mind,’ iii. 228;
  ‘Get as much force of mind as you can,’ iv. 226;
‘He fairly puts his mind to yours,’ iv. 179;
  ’The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace
equally great things and small,’ iii. 334;
  ‘They had mingled minds,’ iv. 308;
  ‘To have the management of the mind is a great art,’ ii. 440.

MISER.  ‘He has not learnt to be a miser,’ v. 316.

MISERY.  ‘It would be misery to no purpose,’ ii. 94;
  ’Where there is nothing but pure misery, there never is any recourse
to the mention of it,’ iv. 31.

MISFORTUNES.  ’If a man talks of his misfortunes, there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him,’ iv. 31.

MISS.  ‘Very well for a young Miss’s verses,’ iii. 319.