Chapter I (1)

=I am a man / More sinned against than sinning.= _King Lear_, iii. 2.

=I am afraid to think what I have done; / Look= 30 =on't again I dare not.= _Macb._, ii. 2.

=I am always afraid of a fool; one cannot be sure that he is not a knave as well.= _Hazlitt._

=I am always as happy as I can be in meeting a man in whose society feelings are developed and thoughts defined.= _Goethe._

=I am always ill at ease when tumults arise among the mob--people who have nothing to lose.= _Goethe._

=I am amazed, methinks, and lose my way / Among the thorns and dangers of the world.= _King John_, iv. 3.

=I am as free as Nature first made man, / Ere= 35 =the base laws of servitude began, / When wild in woods the noble savage ran.= _Dryden._

=I am black, but I am not the devil.= _Pr._

=I am bound to find you in reasons, but not in brains.= _Johnson._

=I am but a gatherer and disposer of other men's stuff.= _Sir Henry Wotton._

=I am constant as the northern star, / Of whose true-fix'd and resting quality / There is no fellow in the firmament.= _Jul. Cæs._, iii. 1.

=I am convinced that the Bible always becomes= 40 =more beautiful the better it is understood, that is, the better we see that every word which we apprehend in general and apply in particular had a proper, peculiar, and immediately individual reference to certain circumstances, certain time and space relations=, _i.e._, =had a specially direct bearing on the spiritual life of the time in which it was written.= _Goethe._

=I am equally an enemy to a female dunce and a female pedant.= _Goldsmith._

=I am fortune's fool.= _Rom. and Jul._, iii. 1.

=I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and that its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the sun, which, to our eyes, seems to set in night; but it has in reality only gone to diffuse its light elsewhere.= _Goethe._

=I am monarch of all I survey, / My right there is none to dispute; / From the centre all round to the sea, / I am lord of the fowl and the brute.= _Cowper._

=I am more afraid of my own heart than of the= 45 =Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, self.= _Luther._

=I am neither so weak as to fear men, so proud as to despise them, or so unhappy as to hate them.= _Marmontel._

=I am never merry when I hear sweet music.= _Mer. of Ven._, v. 1.

=I am no herald to inquire of men's pedigrees; it sufficeth me if I know their virtues.= _Sir P. Sidney._

=I am no orator, as Brutus is; / But as you know me all, a plain blunt man, / That loves my friend.= _Jul. Cæs._, iii. 2.

=I am not mad; I would to heaven I were! /= 50 =For then 'tis like I should forget myself.= _King John_, iii. 4.

=I am not what I am.= _Twelfth Night_, iii. 1; _Othello_, i. 1.

=I am nothing if not critical.= _Othello_, ii. 1.

="I am searching for a man."= _Diogenes, going about Athens by day with a lit lantern._

=I am Sir Oracle, / And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark.= _Mer. of Ven._, i. 1.

=I am sorry to see how small a piece of religion= 5 =will make a cloak.= _Sir W. Waller._

=I am very content with knowing, if only I could know.= _Emerson._

=I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty; I like their delicacy; I like their vivacity; and I like their silence.= _Johnson._

=I and time against any two.= _Philip of Spain._

=I augur better of a youth who is wandering on a path of his own than of many who are walking aright upon paths which are not theirs.= _Goethe._

=I awoke one morning and found myself famous.= 10 _Byron._

=I believe in great men, but not in demigods.= _Bovee._

=I believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world than in following our own inclinations.= _Lady Mary Montagu._

=I believe there are few persons who, if they please to reflect on their past lives, will not find that had they saved all those little sums which they have spent unnecessarily they might at present have been masters of a competent fortune.= _Eustace Budgell._

=I beseech you, dear brethren, think it possible that you may be wrong.= _Cromwell._

=I bide my time.= _M._ 15

=I can but trust that good shall fall / At last--far off--at last, to all.= _Tennyson._

="I can call spirits from the vasty deep." "Why, so can I, or so can any man; but will they come when you do call for them?"= 1 _Hen. IV._, iii. 1.

=I can count a stocking-top while a man 's getting 's tongue ready; an' when he out wi' his speech at last, there's little broth to be made on't.= _George Eliot._

=I can teach you to command the devil, / And I can teach you to shame the devil, / By telling truth.= 1 _Hen. IV._, ii. 1.

=I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe:= 20 =believe life; it teaches better than book and orator.= _Goethe._

=I cannot call riches better than the baggage of virtue.... It cannot be spared or left behind, but it hindereth the march.= _Bacon._

=I cannot hide what I am; I must be sad when I have cause, and smile at no man's jests; eat when I have stomach, and wait for no man's leisure; sleep when I am drowsy, and tend on no man's business; laugh when I am merry, and claw no man in his humour.= _Much Ado_, i. 3.

=I cannot love thee as I ought, / For love reflects the thing beloved; / My words are only words, and move / Upon the topmost froth of thought.= _Tennyson._

=I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and seeks her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.= _Milton._

=I cannot think of any character below the= 25 =flatterer, except he that envies him.= _Steele._

=I can't work for nothing, and find thread.= _Pr._

=I care not though the cloth of state should be / Not of rich Arras, but mean tapestry.= _George Herbert._

=I charge thee, fling away ambition; / By that sin fell the angels.= _Hen. VIII._, iii. 2.

=I chatter, chatter, as I flow / To join the brimming river, / For men may come and men may go, / But I go on for ever.= _Tennyson._

=I contented myself with endeavouring to make= 30 =your home so easy that you might not be in haste to leave it.= _Lady Montagu_ (_to her daughter_).

=I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word / Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, / Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, / Thy knotted and combined locks to part, / And each particular hair to stand on end, / Like quills upon the fretful porcupine.= _Ham._, i. 4.

=I could have better spared a better man.= 1 _Hen. IV._, v. 4.

=I could not but smile at a woman who makes her own misfortunes and then deplores the miseries of her situation.= _Goldsmith._

=I count life just a stuff / To try the soul's strength on.= _Browning._

=I cuori fanciulli non vestone a bruno=--A child's 35 heart wears no weeds. _B. Zendrini._

=I danari del comune sono come l'acqua benedetta, ognun ne piglia=--Public money is like holy water; everybody helps himself to it. _It. Pr._

=I dare do all that may become a man; / Who dares do more, is none.= _Macb._, i. 7.

=I dare to be honest, and I fear no labour.= _Burns._

=I, demens! et sævas curre per Alpes, / Ut pueris placeas, et declamatio fias=--Go, madman, and run over the savage Alps to please schoolboys, and become the subject of declamation. _Juv., of Hannibal._

=I desire no future that will break the ties of= 40 =the past.= _George Eliot._

=I die by the help of too many physicians.= _Alexander the Great._

=I do but sing because I must, / And pipe but as the linnets sing.= _Tennyson._

=I do know of these / That therefore only are reputed wise / For saying nothing.= _Mer. of Ven._, i. 1.

=I do know, / When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul / Lends the tongue vows.= _Ham._, i. 3.

=I do not like "but yet," it does allay / The= 45 =good precedence; fie upon "but yet:" / "But yet" is as a jailer to bring forth / Some monstrous malefactor.= _Ant. and Cleop._, ii. 5.

=I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.= _Goldsmith._

=I do not love thee, Dr. Fell, / The reason why I cannot tell; / But this alone I know full well, / I do not love thee, Dr. Fell.=

=I do not need philosophy at all.= _Goethe._

=I do pity unlearned gentlemen on a rainy day.= _Falkland._

="I don't care," is a deadly snare.= _Pr._

=I earn that I eat, get that I wear; owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness; glad of other men's good, content with my harm.= _As You Like It_, iii. 2.

=I esteem that wealth which is given to the worthy, and which is day by day enjoyed; the rest is a reserve for one knoweth not whom.= _Hitopadesa._

=I fatti sono maschii, le parole femine=--Deeds are masculine, words feminine. _It. Pr._

=I favoriti dei grandi oltre all' oro di regali,= 5 =e l'incenso delle lodi, tocca loro anche la mirra della maldicenza=--The favourites of the great, besides the gold of gifts and the incense of flattery, must also partake of the myrrh of calumny. _It. Pr._

=I fear God, and, next to God, I chiefly fear him who fears Him not.= _Saadi._

=I fear thy nature; / It is too full of the milk of human kindness / To catch the nearest way.= _Macb._, i. 5.

=I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.= _Hen. VIII._, iii. 2.

=I find nonsense singularly refreshing.= _Talleyrand._

=I for ever pass from hand to hand, / And each= 10 =possessor thinks me his own land. / All of them think so, but they all are wrong; / To none but Fortune only I belong.= _Anon., of a field._

=I found Rome brick, I left it marble.= _Augustus Cæsar._

=I gaed a waefu' gate yestreen, / A gate, I fear, I'll dearly rue; / I got my death frae twa sweet een, / Twa lovely een o' bonnie blue.= _Burns._

="I go at last out of this world, where the heart must either petrify or break."= _Chamfort, at his last moments._

=I go through my appointed daily stage, and I care not for the curs who bark at me along the road.= _Frederick the Great._

=I gran dolori sono muti=--Great griefs are dumb. 15 _It. Pr._

=I grieve that grief can teach me nothing, nor carry me one step into real nature.= _Emerson._

=I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong; (but) there is a class of persons to whom, by all spiritual affinity, I am bought and sold; for them I will go to prison if need be.= _Emerson._

=I guadagni mediocri empiono la borsa=--Moderate profits fill the purse. _It. Pr._

=I had as lief not be, as live to be / In awe of such a thing as I myself.= _Jul. Cæs._, i. 2.

=I had better never see a book than be warped= 20 =by its attraction clean out of my own orbit and made a satellite instead of a system.= _Emerson._

=I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, / Than such a Roman.= _Jul. Cæs._, iv. 3.

="I had rather be first here than second in Rome."= _Cæsar, in an insignificant townlet._

=I had rather be Mercury, the smallest among seven (planets), revolving round the sun, than the first among five (moons) revolving round Saturn.= _Goethe._

=I had rather believe all the fables in the legends, the Talmud, and the Koran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.= _Bacon._

=I had rather dwell in the dim fog of superstition= 25 =than in air rarified to nothing by the air-pump of unbelief.= _Jean Paul._

=I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad.= _As You Like It_, iv. 1.

=I had rather people laugh at me while they instruct me than praise me without benefiting me.= _Goethe._

=I hae a penny to spend, / There--thanks to naebody; / I hae naething to lend--/ I'll borrow frae naebody.= _Burns._

=I hate a style that slides along like an eel, and never rises to what one can call an inequality.= _Shenstone._

=I hate bungling as I do sin, but particularly= 30 =bungling in politics, which leads to the misery and ruin of many thousands and millions of people.= _Goethe._

=I hate ingratitude more in a man / Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, / Or any taint of vice whose strong corruption / Inhabits our frail blood.= _Twelfth Night_, iii. 1.

=I have a kind of alacrity in sinking.= _Merry Wives_, iii. 5.

=I have a very poor opinion of a man who talks to men what women should not hear.= _Richardson._

=I have all I have ever enjoyed.= _Bettine._

=I have always been a quarter of an hour= 35 =before my time, and it has made a man of me.= _Nelson._

=I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint, and the cowardly, feeble resolve.= _Burns._

=I have always found that the road to a woman's heart lies through her child.= _Judge Haliburton._

=I have been reasoning all my life, and find that all argument will vanish before one touch of Nature.= _Colman._

=I have been tempted by opportunity, and seconded by accident.= _Marmontel._

=I have been too much occupied with things= 40 =themselves to think either of their beginning or their end.= _Goethe._

=I have bought / Golden opinions from all sorts of people.= _Macb._, i. 7.

=I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was possible for me to execute myself.= _Montesquieu._

=I have, God wot, a largë field to ear; / And weakë the oxen in my plough.= _Chaucer._

=I have great hope of a wicked man, slender hope of a mean one.= _Ward Beecher._

=I have known some men possessed of good= 45 =qualities which were very serviceable to others, but useless to themselves; like a sun-dial on the front of a house, to inform the neighbours and passengers, but not the owner within.= (?)

=I have learned in whatsoever state I am therewith to be content.= _St. Paul._

=I have little knowledge which I find not some way useful to my highest ends.= _Baxter._

=I have lost the ring, but I have my finger still.= _It. and Sp. Pr._

=I have never been able to conquer this ferocious wild beast= (impatience). _Calvin._

=I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.= _Montaigne._

=I have no idea of the courage that braves Heaven.= _Burns._

=I have no notion of a truly great man that could not be all sorts of men.= _Carlyle._

=I have no other but a woman's reason; / I= 5 =think him so because I think him so.= _Two Gent. of Ver._, i. 2.

=I have no spur / To prick the sides of my intent.= _Macb._, i. 7.

=I have no words, / My voice is in my sword.= _Macb._, v. 7.

=I have saved the bird in my bosom=, _i.e._, kept my secret. _Pr._

=I have seen some nations, like overloaded asses, / Kick off their burdens, meaning the higher classes.= _Byron._

=I have seldom known any one who deserted= 10 =truth in trifles that could be trusted in matters of importance.= _Paley._

=I have set my life upon a cast, / And I will stand the hazard of the die.= _Rich. III._, v. 4.

=I have that within which passeth show; / These but the trappings and the suits of woe.= _Ham._, i. 2.

=I have this great commission, / From that supernal judge that stirs good thoughts / In any breast of strong authority, / To look into the blots and stains of right.= _King John_, ii. 1.

=I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well; they imitated humanity so abominably.= _Ham._, iii. 2.

=I hear, yet say not much, but think the more.= 15 3 _Hen. VI._, iv. 1.

=I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality, that it is but a shadow's shadow.= _Ham._, ii. 2.

=I hold every man a debtor to his profession.= _Bacon._

=I hold it cowardice / To rest mistrustful where a noble heart / Hath pawn'd an open hand in sign of love.= 3 _Hen. VI._

=I hold it truth, with him who sings / To one clear harp in divers tones, / That men may rise on stepping-stones / Of their dead selves to higher things.= _Tennyson._

=I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; /= 20 =A stage, where every man must play a part, / And mine a sad one.= _Mer. of Ven._, i. 1.

=I hope I don't intrude.= _Paul Pry._

=I humbly trust I should not change my opinions and practice, though it rained garters and coronets as the reward of apostasy.= _Havelock._

=I jouk= (duck aside) =beneath misfortune's blows / As well's I may; / Sworn foe to sorrow, care, or prose, / I rhyme away.= _Burns._

=I know but of one solid objection to absolute monarchy; the difficulty of finding any man adequate to the office.= _Fielding._

=I know enough to hold my tongue, but not= 25 =to speak.= _Pr._

=I know no evil death can show, which life / Has not already shown to those who live / Embodied longest.= _Byron._

=I know no evil so great as the abuse of the understanding and yet there is no one vice more common.= _Steele._

=I know no judgment of the future but by the past.= _Patrick Henry._

=I know nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.= _Burke._

=I know only one thing sweeter than making a= 30 =book, and that is to project one.= _Jean Paul._

=I know that dancin' 's nonsense; but if you stick at everything because its nonsense, you wonna go far in this life.= _George Eliot._

="I know that it is in me, and out it shall come."= _Sheridan to his friends over their disappointment at the failure of his maiden speech._

=I know that my Redeemer liveth.= _Job, in the Bible._

=I know that nothing is mine but the thought that flows tranquilly out of my soul, and every gracious= (_günstige_) =moment which a loving Providence= (_Geschick_) =permits me thoroughly= (_von Grund aus_) =to enjoy.= _Goethe._

=I labour, and you get the pearl.= _Talmud._ 35

=I let every one follow his own bent, that I may be free to follow mine.= _Goethe._

=I like a good hater.= _Johnson._

=I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.= _Johnson._

=I live not in myself, but I become / Portion of that around me; and to me / High mountains are a feeling.= _Byron._

=I look upon an able statesman out of business= 40 =like a huge whale, that will endeavour to overturn the ship unless he has an empty cask to play with.= _Steele._

=I love a hand that meets mine own with a grasp that causes some sensation.= _Mrs. Osgood._

=I love everything that's old--old friends, old tunes, old manners, old books, old wine.= _Goldsmith._

=I love God and little children.= _Jean Paul._

=I love him not, nor fear him; there's my creed.= _Hen. VIII._, ii. 2.

=I love my friends well, but myself better.= 45 _Pr._

=I love sometimes to doubt, as well as to know.= _Dante._

=I love / The name of honour more than I fear death.= _Jul. Cæs._, i. 2.

=I love to browse in a library.= _Johnson._

=I'll make assurance doubly sure, / And take a bond of fate.= _Macb._, iv. 1.

=I made all my generals out of mud.= _Napoleon._ 50

=I make the most of my enjoyments; and as for my troubles, I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.= _Southey._

=I might have my hand full of truth, and open only my little finger.= _Fontenelle._

=I mourn not those who lose their vital breath; / But those who, living, live in fear of death.= _Lucillus._

=I must be cruel, only to be kind.= _Ham._, iii. 4.

="I must sleep now."= _Byron's last words._ 55

=I must work the work of Him that sent me while it is day; the night cometh when no man can work.= _Jesus._

=I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, nor less alone than when alone.= _Scipio Africanus._

=I'm not denyin' the women are foolish; God Almighty made 'em to match the men.= _George Eliot._

=I'm not one of those who can see the cat i' the dairy an' wonder what she's come after.= _George Eliot._

=I'm sure sma' pleasure it can gie, / E'en to a deil, / To skelp an' scaud= (scald) =puir dogs like me, / An' hear us squeel.= _Burns._

=I never could believe that Providence had= 5 =sent a few men into the world ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden.= _Richard Rumbold._

=I never could tread a single pleasure under foot.= _Browning._

=I never heard tell of any clever man that came of entirely stupid people.= _Carlyle._

=I never knew a man of letters ashamed of his profession.= _Thackeray._

=I never knew any man grow poor by keeping an orderly table.= _Lord Burleigh._

=I never knew any man in my life who could= 10 =not bear another's misfortunes perfectly as a Christian.= _Pope._

=I never saw, heard, or read that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country.= _Swift._

=I never whisper'd a private affair / Within the hearing of cat or mouse, / No, not to myself in the closet alone, / But I heard it shouted at once from the top of the house; / Everything came to be known.= _Tennyson._

=I only look straight before me at each day as it comes, and do what is nearest me, without looking further afield.= _Goethe._

=I picciol cani trovano, ma i grandi hanno la lepre=--The little dogs hunt out the hare, but the big ones catch it. _It. Pr._

=I pick up favourite quotations and store them= 15 =in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence. Of these there is a very favourite one from Thomson: "Attach thee firmly to the virtuous deeds / And offices of life; to life itself, / With all its vain and transient joys, sit loose."= _Burns._

=I pity men who occupy themselves exclusively with the transitory in things and lose themselves in the study of what is perishable, since we are here for this very end that we may make the perishable imperishable, which we can do only after we have learned how to appreciate both.= _Goethe._

=I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry: 'Tis all barren.= _Swift._

=I pounce on what is mine wherever I find it.= _Marmontel._

=I prize the soul that slumbers in a quiet eye.= _Eliza Cook._

=I quote others only in order the better to= 20 =express myself.= _Montaigne._

=I renounce the friend who eats what is mine with me, and what is his own by himself.= _Port. Pr._

=I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.= _Thoreau._

=I say the acknowledgment of God in Christ, / Accepted by thy reason, solves for thee / All questions on the earth and out of it.= _Browning._

=I scorn the affectation of seeming modesty to cover self-conceit.= Burns.

=I secundo omine=--Go, and may all good go with 25 you. _Hor._

=I see my way as birds their trackless way.= _Browning._

=I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world are of the one religion of well-doing and daring.= _Emerson._

=I see thy vanity through the holes of thy coat.= _Plato, to the Cynic._

=I seek divine simplicity in him who handles things divine.= _Cowper._

=I seek not to wax great by others' waning.= 30 2 _Hen. VI._, iv. 10.

="I shall go to-morrow," said the king. "You shall wait for me," quoth the wind.= _Gael. Pr._

=I shall light a candle of understanding in thine heart which shall not be put out.= _Esdras._

=I shall perhaps tremble in my death-hour, but before shall I never.= _Lessing._

=I should be glad were all the meadows on the earth left in a wild state, if that were the consequence of men's beginning to redeem themselves.= _Thoreau._

=I stay here on my bond.= _Mer. of Ven._, iv. 1. 35

=I stout and you stout, who will carry the dirt out?= _Pr._

=I take it to be a principal rule of life not to be too much addicted to any one thing.= _Ter._

=I talk of chalk and you of cheese.= _Pr._

=I think a lock and key a security at least equal to the bosom of any friend whatever.= _Burns._

=I think it is as scandalous for a woman not= 40 =to know how to use a needle as for a man not to know how to use a sword.= _Lady Montagu._

=I think nothing is to be hoped from you if this bit of mould under your feet is not sweeter to you than any other in this world.= _Thoreau._

=I think sculpture and painting have an effect to teach us manners and abolish hurry.= _Emerson._

=I think women have an instinct of dissimulation; they know by nature how to disguise their emotions far better than the most consummate male courtiers can do.= _Thackeray._

=I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.= _T. Jefferson._

=I very much fear that our little terraqueous= 45 =globe is the lunatic asylum of the universe.= _Voltaire._

=I've had my say out, and I shall be th' easier for't all my life.= _George Eliot._

=I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.= _George Eliot._

=I've wandered east, I've wandered west, / Through many a weary way; / But never, never can forget / The love of life's young day.= _Motherwell._

=I waive the quantum o' th sin, / The hazard of concealing; / But oh! it hardens a' within, / And petrifies the feeling.= _Burns._

=I want that glib and oily art, / To speak and purpose not; since what I well intend, / I'll do't before I speak.= _King Lear_, i. 1.

=I was not born for courts or great affairs; / I pay my debts, believe, and say my prayers.= _Pope._

=I was well, would be better, took physic and died.= _Epitaph._

=I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.= _Rich. II._, v. 5.

=I watch the wheels of Nature's mazy plan, /= 5 =And learn the future by the past of man.= _Campbell._

=I were but little happy if I could say how much.= _Much Ado_, ii. 1.

=I will a round unvarnish'd tale deliver / Of my whole course of love.= _Othello_, i. 3.

=I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice.= _W. Lloyd Garrison._

=I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults.= _As You Like It_, iii. 2.

=I will divide my goods; / Call in the wretch= 10 =and slave: / None shall rule but the humble, / And none but toil shall have.= _Emerson._

=I will get it from his purse or get it from his skin.= _Pr._

=I will give thrice as much to any well-deserving friend; but in the way of bargain, mark me, I will cavil on the ninth part of a hair.= 1 _Hen. IV._, iii. 1.

=I will lay a stone at your door=, _i.e._, never forgive you. _Pr._

=I will listen to any one's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself; I have plenty of my own.= _Goethe._

=I will move the world.= _Archimedes._ 15

=I will speak daggers to her, but use none.= _Ham._, iii. 2.

=I will wear my heart upon my sleeve / For daws to peck at.= _Othello_, i. 1.

=I wish there were some cure, like the lover's leap, for all heads of which some single idea has obtained an unreasonable and irregular possession.= _Johnson._

=I would applaud thee to the very echo, that should applaud again.= _Macb._, v. 3.

=I would choose to have others for my acquaintance,= 20 =but Englishmen for my friends.= _Goldsmith._

=I would condone many things in one-and-twenty now, that I dealt hardly with at middle age. God Himself, I think, is very willing to give one-and-twenty a second chance.= _J. M. Barrie._

=I would desire for a friend the son who never resisted the tears of his mother.= _Lacretelle._

=I would fain avoid men; we can give them no help, and they hinder us from helping ourselves.= _Goethe._

=I would give all my fame for a pot of ale and safety.= _Hen. V._, iii. 2.

=I would have been glad to have lived under= 25 =my woodside, to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than undertaken such a government as this.= _Cromwell._

="I"= (self-love) =would have the world say "I," / And all things perish so if she endure.= _Sir Edwin Arnold._

=I would it were bed-time, Hal, and all well.= 1 _Hen. IV._, v. 1.

=I would not enter on my list of friends ... the man / Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.= _Cowper._

=I would not for much that I had been born richer.= _Jean Paul._

=I would rather be found suffering than doing= 30 =what is unjust.= _Phocion._

=I would rather be the author of one original thought than conqueror of a hundred battles.= _W. B. Clulow._

=I would rather make my name than inherit it.= _Thackeray._

=Ibi omnis / Effusus labor=--By that (one negligence) all his labour was lost. _Virg._

=Ibidem=--In the same place.

=Ibis, redibis non morieris in bello=--Thou shalt 35 go, thou shalt return, thou shalt not die in battle; or, Thou shalt go, thou shalt not return, thou shalt die in battle. _An ambiguous oracle, due to the uncertain application of the adverb "non."_

=Ibit eo quo vis, qui zonam perdidit=--He who has lost his purse (_lit._ girdle) will go wherever you wish. _Hor._

=Iceland is the finest country on which the sun shines.= _Iceland Pr._

=Ich bin des trocknen Tons nun satt, / Muss wieder recht den Teufel spielen=--I am now weary of this prosing style, and must again play the devil properly. _Goethe, "Mephisto."_

=Ich bin ein Mensch gewesen, / Und das heisst ein Kämpfer sein=--I have been a man, and that is to be a fighter. _Goethe._

=Ich bin es müde, über Sklaven zu herrschen=--I 40 am tired of ruling over slaves. _Frederick the Great._

=Ich bin zu alt, um nur zu spielen; / Zu jung, um ohne Wunsch zu sein=--I am too old for mere play; too young to be without a wish. _Goethe, "Faust."_

=Ich denke so: / Was nicht zusammen kann / Bestehen, ist am besten sich zu lösen=--In my regard 'twere best throw that into the pot which can no longer hold itself together. _Schiller._

=Ich dien=--I serve. _Ger. M._

=Ich finde nicht die Spur, / Von einem Geist, und alles ist Dressur=--I find no trace of spirit here; it is all mere training. _Goethe, "Faust."_

=Ich fühl' ein ganzes Heer in meiner Brust=--I 45 feel a whole host on my bosom. _Körner._

=Ich fühle Mut, mich in die Welt zu wagen / Der Erde Weh, der Erde Glück zu tragen=--I feel courage enough to cast myself into the world, to bear earth's woe and weal. _Goethe._

=Ich glaube, dass alles was das Genie, als Genie thut, unbewusst geschieht=--Everything that genius, as genius, does, is in my regard done unconsciously. _Goethe._

="Ich glaube an einen Gott." Das ist ein schönes löbliches Wort; aber Gott anerkennen, wo und wie er sich offenbare, das ist eigentlich die Seligkeit auf Erden=--"I believe in a God." That is a fine praiseworthy saying; but to acknowledge God, where and as He reveals Himself, that is properly our blessedness on this earth. _Goethe._

=Ich habe es öfters rühmen hören, / Ein Komödiant könnte einen Pfarrer lehren=--I have often heard say that a player might teach a parson. _Goethe, "Faust."_

=Ich habe genossen das irdische Glück; / Ich habe gelebt und geliebet=--I have experienced earthly happiness; I have lived and I have loved. _Schiller._

=Ich habe gethan, was ich nicht lassen konnte=--I have done what I could not get done. _Schiller._

=Ich habe hier bloss ein Amt und keine Meinung=--I hold here an office merely, and no opinion. _Schiller._

=Ich habe nichts als Worte, und es ziemt / Dem edlen Mann, der Frauen Wort zu achten=--I have nothing but words, and it becomes the noble man to respect a woman's word. _Goethe._

=Ich heisse der reichste Mann in der getauften= 5 =Welt: Die Sonne geht in meinem Staat nicht unter=--I pass for the richest man in the baptized world; the sun never sets in my dominions. _Philip II. of Spain's boast._

=Ich möcht mich gleich dem Teufel übergeben, / Wenn ich nur selbst kein Teufel wär=--I would give myself up at once to the devil if only I were not a devil myself. _Goethe, Mephistopheles in "Faust."_

=Ich muss, das ist die Schrank', in welcher mich die Welt, / Von einer, die Natur von andrer Seite hält=--I must--that is the barrier within which the world confines me on the one hand and Nature on the other. _Rückert._

=Ich schweige zu vielem still; denn ich mag die Menschen nicht irre machen, und bin wohl zufrieden, wenn sie sich freuen, da wo ich mich ärgere=--I keep silent to a great extent, for I don't choose to lead others into error, and am well content if they are happy in matters about which I vex myself. _Goethe._

=Ich setze die Souveränität fest wie einen eisernen Felsen=--I plant the royal power firm as a rock of iron. _Frederick William I. of Prussia._

=Ich singe, wie der Vogel singt, / Der in den= 10 =Zweigen wohnet / Das Lied, das aus der Kehle dringt, / Ist Lohn, der reichlich lohnet=--I sing but as the bird sings which dwells among the branches; the lay which warbles from the throat is a reward that richly recompences. _Goethe._

=Ich stehe in Gottes Hand, und ruh' in Gottes Schooss / Vor ihm fühl' ich mich klein, in ihm fühl' ich mich gross=--I stand in God's hand and rest in God's bosom; before Him I feel little, in Him I feel great. _Rückert._

=Ich thue recht und scheue keinen Feind=--I do the right and fear no foe. _Schiller._

=Ici l'honneur m'oblige, et j'y veux satisfaire=--Here honour binds me, and I am minded to satisfy her. _Corneille._

=Id arbitror / Adprime in vitâ esse utile, ne quid nimis=--This I consider to be a valuable principle in life, not to do anything in excess. _Ter._

=Id cinerem, aut manes credis curare sepultos?=--Do 15 you think that ashes and buried spirits of the departed care for such things? _Virg._

=Id commune malum; semel insanivimus omnes=--It is a common calamity; we have all been mad once. _Mantuanus._

=Id demum est homini turpe, quod meruit pati=--That only brings disgrace on a man which he has deserved to suffer. _Phæd._

=Id est=--That is.

=Id facere laus est quod decet, non quod licet=--The man is deserving of praise who does what it becomes him to do, not what he is free to do. _Sen._

=Id genus omne=--All persons of that description. 20

=Id maxime quemque decet, quod est cujusque maxime suum=--That best becomes a man which is most peculiarly his own. _Cic._

=Id mutavit, quoniam me immutatum videt=--He has changed his mind because he sees me unchanged. _Ter._

=Id nobis maxime nocet, quod non ad rationis lumen sed ad similitudinem aliorum vivimus=--This is especially ruinous to us, that we shape our lives not by the light of reason, but after the fashion of others. _Sen._

=Ideals are the world's masters.= _J. G. Holland._

=Ideals can never be completely embodied in= 25 =practice; and yet ideals exist, and if they be not approximated to at all, the whole matter goes to wreck.= _Carlyle._

=Ideas must work through the brains and arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams.= _Emerson._

=Ideas often flash across our minds more complete than we could make them after much labour.= _La Roche._

=Idem=--The same.

=Idem quod=--The same as.

=Idem velle et idem nolle ea demum firma= 30 =amicitia est=--To have the same likes and the same dislikes is the sole basis of lasting friendship. _Sall._

=Idle folks lack no excuses.= _Pr._

=Idle people have the least leisure.= _Pr._

=Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments.= _Ben. Franklin._

=Idleness in the midst of unattempted tasks is always proud.= _P. Brooks._

=Idleness is an appendix to nobility.= _Burton._ 35

=Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.= _Jean Paul._

=Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds and the holiday of fools.= _Pr._

=Idleness is the badge of gentry, the bane of body and mind, the nurse of naughtiness, the step-mother of discipline, the chief author of mischief, one of the seven deadly sins, the cushion on which the devil chiefly reposes, and a great cause not only of melancholy, but of many other diseases.= _Burton._

=Idleness is the greatest prodigality in the world.= _Pr._

=Idleness is the root of all evil.= _Pr._ 40

=Idleness is the sepulchre of a living man.= _Anselm._

=Idleness rusts the mind.= _Pr._

=Idolatry is simply the substitution of an "Eidolon," phantasm, or imagination of good for that which is real and enduring, from the highest Living Good which gives life, to the lowest material good which ministers to it.= _Ruskin._

=Idoneus homo=--A fit man.

=If a barrel-organ in a slum can but drown= 45 =a curse, let no Christian silence it.= _Prof. Drummond._

=If a beard were all, the goat would be winner.= _Dan. Pr._

=If a book come from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts.= _Carlyle._

=If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.= _Ruskin._

=If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends.= _Colton._

=If a dog has a man to back him, he will kill a baboon.= _Wit and Wisdom from West Africa._

=If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.= _Pr._ 5

=If a God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent one.= _Voltaire._

=If a great thing can be done at all, it can be done easily; but it is in that kind of ease with which a tree blossoms after long years of gathered strength.= _Ruskin._

=If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.= _Jesus._

=If a man be born in a stable, that does not make him a horse.= _Pr._

=If a man cannot be a Christian in the place= 10 =where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.= _Ward Beecher._

=If a man could bequeath his virtues by will, and settle his sense and learning upon his heirs as certainly as he can his lands, a noble descent would then indeed be a valuable privilege.= _Anon._

=If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.= _Pr._

=If a man do not erect in this age his tomb ere he dies, he will live no longer in monument than the bell rings and the widow weeps.= _Much Ado_, v. 2.

=If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it from him.= _Ben. Franklin._

=If a man fear or reverence God, he must hate= 15 =covetousness; and if he fear or reverence covetousness, he must hate God.= _Ruskin._

=If a man hath too mean an opinion of himself, it will render him unserviceable both to God and man.= _John Selden._

=If a man have freedom enough to live healthily and work at his craft, he has enough; and so much all can easily obtain.= _Goethe._

=If a man have not a friend, he may quit the stage.= _Bacon._

=If a man is not virtuous, he becomes vicious.= _Bovee._

=If a man knows the right way, he need not= 20 =trouble himself about wrong paths.= _Lessing._

=If a man makes himself a worm, he must not complain when trodden on.= _Kant._

=If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is he keeps his own at the same time.= _Swift._

=If a man once fall, all will tread on him.= _Pr._

=If a man read little, he had need of much cunning to seem to know that he doth not.= _Bacon._

=If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought,= 25 =happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him.= _Buddha._

=If a man wishes to become rich, he must appear rich.= _Goldsmith._

=If a man with the material of enjoyment around him and virtually within his reach walks God's earth wilfully and obstinately with a gloomy spirit, ... making misery his worship, we feel assured he is contravening his Maker's design in endowing him with life.= _W. R. Greg._

=If a man would be alone, let him look at the stars.= _Emerson._

=If a man wound you with injuries, meet him with patience; hasty words rankle the wound, soft language dresses it, forgiveness cures it, and oblivion takes away the scar.= _J. Beaumont._

=If a man write a book, let him set down only= 30 =what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.= _Goethe._

=If a man s gaun doun the brae, ilka ane gi'es him a jundie= (push). _Sc. Pr._

=If a noble soul is rendered tenfold beautifuller by victory and prosperity, an ignoble one is rendered tenfold and a hundredfold uglier, pitifuller.= _Carlyle._

=If a people will not believe, it must obey.= _Tocqueville._

=If a pig could give his mind to anything, he wouldn't be a pig.= _Dickens._

=If a word be worth one shekel, silence is worth= 35 =two.= _Rabbi Ben Azai._

=If ae sheep loup= (jump) =the dike, a the lave= (rest) =will follow.= _Sc. Pr._

=If aged and life-weary men have called to their neighbours: "Think of dying!" we younger and life-loving men may well keep encouraging and reminding one another with the cheerful words: "Think of wandering!"= _Goethe._

=If all be well within, ... the impertinent censures of busy, envious men will make no very deep impression.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=If all dogs on this earth should bark, / It will not matter if you do not hark.= _Saying._

=If all the misfortunes of mankind were cast= 40 =into a public stock in order to be equally distributed among the species, those who now think themselves the most unhappy would prefer the share they have already to that which would fall to them by such a division.= _Socrates._

=If all the world were falcons, what of that? / The wonder of the eagle were the less, / But he not less the eagle.= _Tennyson._

=If all the year were playing holidays, / To sport would be as tedious as to work.= 1 _Hen. IV._, i. 2.

=If all were rich, gold would be penniless.= _Bailey._

=If an ass goes a-travelling, he'll not come home a horse.= _Pr._

=If an ass kicks me, shall I strike him again?= 45 _Socrates._

=If an ass looks in, you cannot expect an apostle to look out.= _Lichtenberg._

=If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing him.= _Burke._

=If any false step be made in the more momentous concerns of life, the whole scheme of ambitious designs is broken.= _Addison._

=If any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth.= _St. Peter._

=If any man will come after me, let him deny= 50 =himself, and take up his cross and follow me.= _Jesus._

=If any one tells you that a man has changed his character, don't believe it.= _Mahomet._

=If any speak ill of thee, fly home to thy own conscience and examine thy heart. If thou art guilty, it is a fair correction; if not guilty, it is a fair instruction.= _George Herbert._

=If any would not work, neither should he eat.= _St. Paul._

=If blushing makes ugly people so beautiful, ought it not to make the beautiful still more beautiful?= _Lessing._

=If coals do not burn, they blacken.= _Pr._

=If cheerfulness knocks for admission, we should= 5 =open our hearts wide to receive it, for it never comes inopportunely.= _Schopenhauer._

=If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.= _Goethe._

=If cut= (in the costume) =betoken intellect and talent, so does the colour betoken temper and heart.= _Carlyle._

=If destructive criticism is injurious in anything, it is in matters of religion, for here everything depends upon faith, to which we cannot return when we have once lost it.= _Goethe._

=If each one does his duty as an individual, and if each one works rightly in his own vocation, it will be well with the whole.= _Goethe._

=If ever a fool's advice is good, a prudent man= 10 =must carry it out.= _Lessing._

=If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings.= _Welsh Pr._

=If everybody knew what one says of the other, there would not be four friends left in the world.= _Pascal._

=If evil be said of thee, and if it be true, correct thyself; if it be a lie, laugh at it.= _Epictetus._

=If fame is only to come after death, I am in no hurry for it.= _Martial._

=If folly were a pain, there would be crying in= 15 =every house.= _Sp. Pr._

=If fortune favour you, be not elated; if she frown, do not despond.= _Ausonius._

=If fortune give thee less than she has done, / Then make less fire, and walk more in the sun.= _Sir R. Baker._

=If fortune would make a man estimable, she gives him virtues; if she would have him esteemed, she gives him success.= _Joubert._

=If frequent failure convince you of that mediocrity of nature which is incompatible with great actions, submit wisely and cheerfully to your lot.= _Sydney Smith._

=If friendship is to rob me of my eyes, if it is= 20 =to darken the day, I will have none of it.= _Thoreau._

=If fun is good, truth is still better, and love most of all.= _Thackeray._

=If happiness ha'e not her seat / And centre in the breast, / We may be wise, or rich, or great, / But never can be blest.= _Burns._

=If heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms.= _Cowley._

=If Hercules and Lichas play at dice / Which is the better man, the greater throw / May turn by fortune from the weaker hand; / So is Alcides beaten by his page.= _Mer. of Ven._, ii. 1.

=If honour calls, where'er she points the= 25 =way, / The sons of honour follow and obey.= _Churchill._

=If I am anything, which I much doubt, I made myself so merely by labour.= _Sir Isaac Newton._

=If I am master and you are master, who shall drive the asses?= _Arab. Pr._

=If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning.= _Longfellow._

=If I am right, Thy grace impart / Still in the right to stay; / If I am wrong, O teach my heart to find the better way.= _Pope._

=If I ascend up into heaven, Thou art there; if= 30 =I make my bed in hell, behold Thou art there; if I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there shall Thy hand lead me, and Thy right hand shall hold me.= _Bible._

=If I be dear to some one else, / Then I should be to myself more dear.= _Tennyson._

=If I call bad bad, what do I gain? But if I call good bad, I do a great deal of mischief.= _Goethe._

=If I can catch him once upon the hip, / I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.= _Mer. of Ven._, i. 3.

=If I choose to take jest in earnest, no one shall put me to shame for doing so; and if I choose to carry on= (_treiben_) =earnest in jest, I shall be always myself= (_immer derselbe bleiben_). _Goethe._

=If I do lose thee= (life), =I do lose a thing / That= 35 =none but fools would keep; a breath thou art, / Servile to all the skyey influences, / That do this habitation, where thou keep'st / Hourly inflict.= _Meas. for Meas._, iii. 1.

=If I for my opinion bleed, / Opinion shall be surgeon to my hurt.= 1 _Hen. VI._, ii. 4.

=If I had read as much as other men, I would have been as ignorant as they are.= _Hobbes._

=If I had wit enough to get out of this wood, I have said enough to serve mine own turn.= _Mid. Night's Dream_, iii. 1.

=If I knew the way of the Lord, truly I would be only too glad to walk in it; if I were led into the temple of truth= (_in der Wahrheit Haus_), =I would not, with the help of God= (_bei Gott_), =go out of it again.= _Goethe._

=If I lose mine honour, I lose myself.= _Ant. and_ 40 _Cleop._, iii. 4.

=If I love thee, what is that to thee?= _Goethe._

=If I'm designed yon lordling's slave, / By Nature's law designed, / Why was an independent wish / E'er planted in my mind?= _Burns._

=If I must die, / I will encounter darkness as a bride / And hug it in my arms.= _Meas. for Meas._, iii. 1.

=If I seek an interest of my own detached from that of others, I seek an interest which is chimerical, and can never have existence.= _James Harris._

=If I should say nothing, I should say much= 45 =(much being included in my love); though my love be such, that if I should say much, I should yet say nothing, it being, as Cowley says, equally impossible either to conceal or to express it.= _Pope._

=If I wish for a horse-hair for my compass-sight, I must go to the stable; but the hair-bird, with her sharp eyes, goes to the road.= _Thoreau._

=If ill thoughts at any time enter into the mind of a good man, he doth not roll them under his tongue as a sweet morsel.= _Matthew Henry._

=If in the course of our life we see that done by others for which we ourselves at one time felt a vocation, and which we were, with much else, compelled to relinquish, then the noble feeling comes in, that only humanity altogether is the true man, and that the individual can only rejoice and be happy when he has the heart= (_Muth_) =to feel himself in the whole.= _Goethe._

=If in youth the universe is majestically unveiling, and everywhere heaven revealing itself on earth, nowhere to the young man does this heaven on earth so immediately reveal itself as in the young maiden.= _Carlyle._

="If" is the only peacemaker--much virtue in "if."= _As You Like It_, v. 4.

=If it be a bliss to enjoy the good, it is still= 5 =greater happiness to discern the better; for in art the best only is good enough.= _Goethe._

=If it be asked, What is the improper expectation which it is dangerous to indulge, experience will quickly answer that it is such expectation as is dictated not by reason but by desire--an expectation that requires the common course of things to be changed, and the general rules of action to be broken.= _Johnson._

=If it be aught toward the general good, / Set honour in one eye, and death i' the other, / And I will look on both indifferently; / For, let the gods so speed me, as I love / The name of honour more than I fear death.= _Jul. Cæs._, i. 2.

=If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.= _St. Paul._

=If it is a happiness to be nobly descended, it is not less to have so much merit that nobody inquires whether we are so or not.= _La Bruyère._

=If it is disgraceful to be beaten, it is only a= 10 =shade less disgraceful to have so much as fought.= _Carlyle._

=If it rains--well! If it shines--well!= _Pr._