Chapter I (4)

=In time we hate that which we often fear.= _Ant. and Cleop._, i. 3.

=In times of anarchy one may seem a despot in order to be a saviour.= _Mirabeau._

=In times of danger it is proper to be alarmed= 5 =until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.= _Hitopadesa._

=In times of misfortune men's understandings even are sullied.= _Hitopadesa._

=In times of necessity the words of the wise are worthy to be observed.= _Hitopadesa._

=In too much disputing truth is lost.= _Fr. Pr._

=In totidem verbis=--In so many words.

=In toto=--In the whole; entirely. 10

=In toto et pars continetur=--In the whole the part also is contained.

=In transitu=--In passing.

=In treachery it is not the fraud, but the cold-heartedness, that is chiefly dreadful.= _Ruskin._

=In trinitate robur=--My strength lies in trinity (or triunity). _M._

=In true marriage lies / Nor equal, nor unequal:= 15 =each fulfils / Defect in each, and always thought in thought, / Purpose in purpose, will in will, they grow, / The single pure and perfect animal, / The two-cell'd heart beating, with one full stroke, / Life.= _Tennyson._

=In turbas et discordias pessimo cuique plurima vis=--In seasons of tumult and discord, the worst men have the greatest power. _Tac._

=In unoquoque virorum bonorum habitat Deus=--God has his dwelling within every good man. _Sen._

=In usum Delphini=--For the use of the Dauphin.

=In utero=--In the womb.

=In utramvis dormire aurem=--To sleep on both 20 ears, _i.e._, soundly, as no longer needing to keep awake. _Pr._

=In utraque fortuna paratus=--Prepared in any change of fortune. _M._

=In utroque fidelis=--Faithful in both. _M._

=In vacuo=--In empty space.

=In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle.= _Horace Mann._

=In vain does the mill clack / If the miller his= 25 =hearing lack.= _Herbert's Coll._

=In veritate religionis confido=--I confide in the truth of religion. _M._

=In veritate victoria=--Victory lies with the truth. _M._

=In vino veritas=--There is truth in wine; that is, the truth comes out under its influence.

=In vitium ducit culpæ fuga=--In flying from one vice we are sometimes led into another. _Hor._

=In water you may see your own face; in wine= 30 =the heart of another.= _Pr._

=In well-regulated civil society there is scarcely a more melancholy suffering to be undergone than what is forced on us by the neighbourhood of an incipient player on the flute or violin.= _Goethe._

=In wenig Stunden / Hat Gott das Rechte gefunden=--God takes but a short time to find out the right. _Goethe._

=In wonder all philosophy began; in wonder it ends; and admiration fills up the interspace.= _Coleridge._

=In wonder the spirits fly not as in fear, but only settle.= _Bacon._

=In working well, if travail you sustain, / Into= 35 =the wind shall lightly pass the pain, / But of the deed the glory shall remain.= _Nicholas Grimwald._

=In works of labour or of skill, / I would be busy too, / For Satan finds some mischief still / For idle hands to do.= _Watts._

=In writing readily, it does not follow that you write well; but in writing well, you must be able to write readily.= _Quinct._

=In your own country your name, in other countries your appearance.= _Heb. Pr._

=In youth and beauty wisdom is but rare.= _Pope, after Homer._

=In youth it is too early, in old age it is too late= 40 =to marry.= _Diogenes._

=In youth, one has tears without grief; in age, grief without tears.= _Jean Paul._

=Inactivity cannot be led to good.= _Hannah More._

=Inanis verborum torrens=--An unmeaning torrent of words. _Quinct._

=Incedis per ignes / Suppositos cineri doloso=--You are treading on fire overlaid by treacherous ashes. _Hor._

=Incedit in Scyllam qui vult vitare Charybdim=--He 45 falls into Scylla in struggling to escape Charybdis. _Pr._

=Incendit omnem feminæ zelus domum=--The jealousy of a woman sets a whole house in a flame. _Pr._

=Incense is a tribute for gods only but a poison for mortals.= _Goethe._

=Inceptis gravibus plerumque et magna professis, / Purpureus, late qui splendeat, unus et alter / Adsuitur pannus=--Oftentimes to lofty beginnings and such as promise great things, one or two purple patches are stitched on in order to make a brilliant display. _Hor._

=Incerta hæc si tu postules / Ratione certa facere, nihilo plus agas, / Quam si des operam ut cum ratione insanias=--If you require reason to make that certain which is uncertain, you are simply attempting to go mad by the rules of reason. _Ter._

=Incerta pro nullis habetur=--What is uncertain 50 is to be treated as non-extant. _L._

=Incerti sunt exitus belli=--The results of war are uncertain. _Cic._

=Incertum est quo te loco mors expectet; itaque in omni loco illam expecta=--It is uncertain in what place death awaits you; be ready for it therefore in every place. _Sen._

=Incessant scribbling is death to thought.= _Carlyle._

=Incessu patuit Dea=--By her gait the goddess stood revealed. _Virg._

=Incidents ought not to govern policy; but= 55 =policy, incidents.= _Napoleon._

=Inclusio unius est exclusio alterius=--The mention by name of the one implies the exclusion of the other. _L._

=Incoctum generoso pectus honesto=--A heart imbued with generous honour. _Pers._

=Inconsiderate persons do not think till they they speak; or they speak, and then think.= _Judge Hale._

=Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.= _Daniel Webster._

=Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilisers of men.= _Disraeli._

=Incrédules les plus crédules=--The incredulous 5 are the most credulous. _Pascal._

=Incudi reddere=--To return to the anvil, _i.e._, to improve, or recast. _Hor._

=Inde datæ leges ne fortior omnia posset=--Laws have been ordained to the end that the stronger may not have everything their own way. _L._

=Inde iræ et lacrimæ=--Hence rage and tears. _Juv._

=Indecision and delay are the parents of failure.= _Canning._

=Independence, in all kinds, is rebellion; if unjust= 10 =rebellion, why parade it and everywhere prescribe it.= _Carlyle._

=Independence, in all kinds, is rebellion. Were your superiors worthy to govern, and you worthy to obey, reverence for them were even your only possible freedom.= _Carlyle._

=Independence, like honour, is a rocky island without a beach.= _Napoleon._

=Independence you had better cease to talk of, for you are dependent not only on every act of people whom you never heard of, who are living round you, but on every past act of what has been dust for a thousand years.= _Ruskin._

=Index expurgatorius=--An expurgatory index.

=Indica tigris agit rabida cum tigride pacem /= 15 =Perpetuam: sævis inter se convenit ursis. / Ast homini ferrum letale incude nefanda / Produxisse parum est=--The Indian tigers live in perpetual peace with each rabid tigress; savage bears agree among themselves, but man without remorse beats out the deadly sword on the accursed anvil. _Juv._

=Indictum sit=--Be it unsaid.

=Indigestion is the devil--nay, 'tis the devil and all. It besets a man in every one of his senses.= _Burns._

=Indigna digna habenda sunt hæres quæ facit=--Things unbecoming are to be held becoming if the master does them. _Plaut._

=Indignant good sense is often the perfection of absurdity.= _Thackeray._

=Indignante invidia florebit justus=--The just 20 man will prosper in spite of envy. _M._

=Indigne vivit per quem non vivit alter=--He by whom another does not live does not deserve to live.

=Indignor quidquam reprehendi, non quia crasse / Compositum, illepideve putetur, sed quia nuper=--I feel indignant when a work is censured not as uncouth or rough, but as new.

=Individuality is everywhere to be spared and respected, as the root of everything good.= _Jean Paul._

=Individuality is of far more account than nationality.= _Schopenhauer._

=Individually man is a weak being, but strong= 25 =in union with others.= _Herder._

=Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone can create a nation.= _Disraeli._

=Individuals must be modest, but modesty degrades nations.= _Gioberti._

=Indocilis pauperiem pati=--One that cannot learn to bear poverty. _Hor._

=Indocilis privata loqui=--Incapable of betraying secrets. _Lucan._

=Indocti discant, et ament meminisse periti=--Let 30 the ignorant learn, and the learned take pleasure in refreshing their remembrance. _President Hénault, after Pope._

=Indolence and stupidity are first cousins.= _Rivarol._

=Indolence is the paralysis of the soul.= _Lavater._

=Indolence is the sleep of the mind.= _Vauvenargues._

=Industria floremus=--By industry we flourish. _M._

=Industriæ nil impossibile=--Nothing is impossible 35 to industry.

=Industry is Fortune's right hand, and Frugality her left.= _Pr._

=Industry is the parent of success.=

=Industry is the parent of virtue.=

=Industry need not wish.= _Ben. Franklin._

=Indutus virtute ab alto=--Anointed with virtue 40 from above.

=Inest et formicæ sua bilis=--Even the ant has its bile.

=Inest sua gratia parvis=--Even little things have a grace of their own.

=Inest virtus et mens interrita lethi=--He has a valiant heart and a soul undaunted by death. _Ovid._

=Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to Paradise.= _Emerson._

=Infancy presents body and spirit in unity; the= 45 =body is all animated.= _Coleridge._

=Infandum, regina, jubes renovare dolorem=--Indescribable, O Queen, is the grief you bid me renew. _Virg._

=Infecta pace=--Without effecting a peace. _Ter._

=Inferior poetry is an injury to the good, inasmuch as it takes away the freshness of rhymes, blunders upon and gives a wretched commonality to good thoughts, and, in general, adds to the weight of human weariness in a most woeful and culpable manner.= _Ruskin._

=Infidelity is not always built upon doubt, for this is diffident; nor philosophy always upon wisdom, for this is meek; but pride is neither.= _Colton._

=Infidelity, like death, admits of no degrees.= 50 _Mme. de Girardin._

=Infinite is the help man can yield to man.= _Carlyle._

=Infinite pity, yet also infinite rigour of law; it is so Nature is made.= _Carlyle._

=Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist; but, by ascending a little, you may often overlook it altogether.= _Helps._

=Inflatum plenumque Nerone propinquo=--Puffed up and full of his relationship to Nero. _Juv._

=Inflict not on an enemy every injury in your= 55 =power, for he may afterwards become your friend.= _Saadi._

=Influence is to be measured not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind.= _Channing._

=Infra dignitatem=--Beneath one's dignity.

=Ingenii largitor venter=--The belly is the bestower of genius.

=Ingeniis patuit campus, certusque merenti / Stat favor: ornatur propriis industria donis=--The field is open to talent and merit is sure of its reward. The gifts with which industry is crowned are her own. _Claud._

=Ingenio facies conciliante placet=--When the 5 disposition wins us, the features please. _Ovid._

=Ingenio non ætate adipiscitur sapientia=--Wisdom is a birth of Nature, not of years.

=Ingenio stat sine morte decus=--The honour accorded to genius is immortal. _Propert._

=Ingeniorum cos æmulatio=--Rivalry is the whetstone of talent.

=Ingenium ingens / Inculto latet hoc sub corpore=--A great intellect lies concealed under that uncouth exterior. _Hor._

=Ingenium mala sæpe movent=--Misfortunes often 10 stir up genius. _Ovid._

=Ingenium res adversæ nudare solent, celare secundæ=--As a rule, adversity reveals genius, and prosperity conceals it. _Hor._

=Ingens telum necessitas=--Necessity is a powerful weapon.

=Ingentes animos angusto in corpore versant=--They have mighty souls at work within a stinted body. _Virg._

=Ingenuas didicisse fideliter artes / Emollit mores, nec sinit esse feros=--A faithful study of the liberal arts refines the manners and corrects their harshness. _Ovid._

=Ingrata patria, ne ossa quidem habebis=--Ungrateful 15 country, thou shalt not have even my bones. _Scipio._

=Ingratis servire nefas=--To serve the ungrateful is an offence to the gods.

=Ingratitude and compassion never cohabit in the same breast.= _South._

=Ingratitude drieth up wells, / And time bridges fells.= _Wodroephe._

=Ingratitude is a crime so shameful, that the man was never yet found who would acknowledge himself guilty of it.= (?)

=Ingratitude! thou marble-hearted fiend, / More= 20 =hideous, when thou show'st thee in a child, / Than the sea-monster.= _King Lear_, i. 4.

=Ingratus est qui remotis testibus agit gratiam=--He is an ungrateful man who is unwilling to acknowledge his obligation before others. _Sen._

=Ingratus unus miseris omnibus nocet=--One ungrateful man does an injury to all needy people. _Pub. Syr._

=Inimicus et invidus vicinorum oculus=--An enemy and an envious man is an eye over his neighbour. _Pr._

=Iniqua nunquam regna perpetua manent=--Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration. _Sen._

=Iniquum est aliquem rei sui esse judicem=--It is 25 unjust that any one should be judge in his own cause. _Coke._

=Initia magistratuum nostrorum meliora ferme, et finis inclinat=--The commencement of our official duties is characterised by greater vigour and alacrity, but towards the end they flag. _Tac._

=Initium est salutis, notitia peccati=--The first step in a man's salvation is knowledge of his sin. _Sen._

=Injuria absque damno=--Injury without loss.

=Injuriæ spretæ exolescunt, si irascaris agnitæ videntur=--Injuries that are slighted and unnoticed are soon forgotten; if you are angry, they are seen to be acknowledged. _Pr._

=Injuriam qui facturus est jam facit=--He who is 30 bent on doing an injury has already done it. _Sen._

=Injuriarum remedium est oblivio=--Oblivion is the best remedy for injuries. _Pr._

=Injuries come only from the heart.= _Sterne._

=Injusta ab justis impetrare non decet; / Justa autem ab injustis petere, insipientia est=--To ask what is unreasonable from the reasonable is not right; to ask what is reasonable from the unreasonable is folly. _Plaut._

=Inmost things are all melodious, naturally utter themselves in song. The meaning of song goes deep.= _Carlyle._

=Innocence has a friend in heaven.= _Schiller._ 35

=Innocence is a flower which withers when touched, and blooms not again though watered with tears.= _Hooper._

=Inopem me copia fecit=--Plenty has made me poor; wealth makes wit waver. _Ovid._

=Inopi beneficium bis dat, qui dat celeriter=--He confers a twofold benefit on a needy man who does so quickly. _Pub. Syr._

=Inops, potentem dum vult imitari, perit=--An incapable man who attempts to imitate a capable is sure to come to grief. _Phædr._

=Inquinat egregios adjuncta superbia mores=--The 40 best manners are stained by the addition of pride. _Claud._

=Inquisitiveness as seldom cures jealousy as drinking in a fever quenches the thirst.= _Wycherley._

=Ins Innre der Natur / Dringt kein erschaffner Geist. / Glückselig, wem sie nur / Die äussre Schale weist=--No created spirit penetrates into the inner secret of Nature. Happy he to whom she shows but the outer shell. _Haller._

=Insani sapiens nomen ferat, æquus iniqui, / Ultra quod satis est virtutem si petat ipsam=--Let the wise man bear the name of fool, and the just of unjust, if he pursue Virtue herself beyond the proper bounds. _Hor._

=Insanire parat certa ratione modoque=--He is preparing to act the madman with a certain degree of reason and method. _Hor._

=Insanity is often the logic of an accurate= 45 =mind overtasked.= _Holmes._

=Insanus omnis furere credit cæteros=--Every madman believes that all others are mad. _Syr._

=Insculpsit=--He engraved it.

=Inservi Deo et lætare=--Serve God and rejoice. _M._

=Insipientis est dicere, Non putarem=--It is the part of a fool to say, "I should not have thought so."

=Insita hominibus natura violentiæ resistere=--It 50 is natural to man to resist oppression. _Tac._

=Insita mortalibus natura, propere sequi quæ piget inchoare=--People are naturally ready enough to follow in matters in which they are disinclined to take the lead. _Tac._

=Insolence is pride when her mask is pulled off.= _Pr._

=Insouciance=--Indifference. _Fr._

=Insperata accidunt magis sæpe quam quæ speres=--What you do not expect happens more frequently than what you do. _Plaut._

=Inspicere, tanquam in speculum, in vitas omnium / Jubeo, atque ex aliis sumere exemplum sibi=--I would have you to look into the lives of all, as into a mirror, and draw from others an example for yourself. _Ter._

=Inspiration must find answering inspiration.= _A. B. Alcott._

=Inspirations that we deem our own are our= 5 =divine foreshadowing and foreseeing of things beyond our reason and control.= _Longfellow._

=Inspiring bold John Barleycorn! / What dangers thou canst make us scorn!= _Burns._

=Instar omnium=--Like all the others.

=Instead of the piteous and frightful figure of Death, stepping whip to hand by the peasant's side in the field, ... place there a radiant angel, sowing with full hands the blessed grain in the smoking furrow.= _George Sand._

=Instead of watching the bird as it flies above our heads, we chase his shadow along the ground; and, finding we cannot grasp it, we conclude it to be nothing.= _Hare._

=Instinct is a great matter; I was a coward on= 10 =instinct.= 1 _Hen. IV._, ii. 4.

=Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.= _John Sterling._

=Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.= _Goethe._

=Intaminatis fulget honoribus=--He shines with unspotted honours. _M._

=Integer vitæ scelerisque purus / Non eget Mauris jaculis neque arcu=--The man of upright life and free from crime has no need of Moorish javelin or bow. _Hor._

=Integrity gains strength by use.= _Tillotson._ 15

=Integrity is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line, and will hold out and last longest.= _Tillotson._

=Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.= _Johnson._

=Intellect annuls fate; so far as a man thinks, he is free.= _Emerson._

=Intellect is aristocratic; charity is democratic.= _Amiel._

=Intellect is not speaking and logicising; it= 20 =is seeing and ascertaining.= _Carlyle._

=Intellect lies behind genius, which is intellect constructive.= _Emerson._

=Intellectual fairness is often only another name for indolence and inconclusiveness of mind, just as love of truth is sometimes a fine phrase for temper.= _J. Morley._

=Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.= _Emerson._

=Intelligabilia, non intellectum, fero=--I provide you with things intelligible, but not with intelligence.

=Intemperans adolescentia effetum corpus= 25 =tradet senectuti=--An incontinent youth will transmit a worn-out bodily frame to old age. _Cic._

=Intemperate wits will spare neither friend nor foe, and make themselves the common enemies of mankind.= _L'Estrange._

=Intense study of the Bible will keep any man from being vulgar in point of style.= _Coleridge._

=Inter alia=--Among other matters.

=Inter amicos omnium rerum communitas=--Among friends all things are common. _Cic._

=Inter arma leges silent=--In the midst of arms 30 the laws are silent. _Cic._

=Inter canem et lupum=--Between the dog and the wolf; at the twilight.

=Inter cetera mala, hoc quoque habet stultitia proprium, semper incipit vivere=--Among other evils, folly has also this special characteristic, it is always beginning to live. _Sen._

=Inter delicias semper aliquid sævi nos strangulat=--In the midst of our enjoyments there is always some wrong to torture us. _Pr._

=Inter Græcos græcissimus, inter Latinos latinissimus=--In Greek he is the most accomplished Grecian, and in Latin the most thorough Latinist.

=Inter malleum et incudem=--Between the hammer 35 and the anvil.

=Inter nos=--Between ourselves.

=Inter nos sanctissima divitiarum / Majestas=--Among us the most sacred majesty is that of riches. _Juv._

=Inter pueros senex=--An old man among boys. _Pr._

=Inter spem curamque, timores inter et iras, / Omnem crede diem tibi diluxisse supremum: / Grata superveniet quæ non sperabitur hora=--In the midst of hope and care, in the midst of fears and passions, believe each day that dawns on you is your last; welcome will steal upon you the hour that is not hoped for. _Hor._

=Inter sylvas Academi quærere verum=--Amid 40 the woods of Academus to seek for truth. _Hor._

=Inter utrumque tene=--Keep a mid course between the two extremes. _Ovid._

=Inter vivos=--Among the living.

=Interdum lacrymæ pondera vocis habent=--Sometimes tears have the weight of words. _Ovid._

=Interdum stultus bene loquitur=--Sometimes a fool speaks reasonably.

=Interdum vulgus rectum videt, est ubi peccat=--Sometimes 45 the common people judge aright; at other times they err. _Hor._

=Interea gustus elementa per omnia quærunt, / Nunquam animo pretiis obstantibus; interius si / Attendas, magis illa juvant, quæ pluris emuntur=--Meantime they search for relishes through all the elements, with minds regardless of expense; look at it closely, those things please more which cost the higher price. _Juv._

=Interest blinds some people and enlightens others.= _La Roche._

=Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls.= _Rousseau._

=Interest reipublicæ ut quisque re sua bene utatur=--It is for the interest of the state that every one make a good use of his property.

=Interest speaks all sorts of tongues, and plays= 50 =all sorts of parts, even the part of the disinterested.= _La Roche._

=Interim fit aliquid=--- Something is going on meanwhile. _Ter._

=Into a mouth shut flies fly not.= _Pr._

=Into contradicting / Be thou never led away; / When with the ignorant they strive, / The wise to folly fall away.= _Goethe._

=Into each life some rain must fall, / Some days must be dark and dreary.= _Longfellow._

=Intolerabilius nihil est quam fœmina dives=--There is nothing more insufferable than a rich woman. _Juv._

=Intra muros=--Within the walls.

=Introite, nam et hic dii sunt=--Enter, for here too are gods. _Heraclitus, from Arist._

=Intuition is the clear conception of the whole= 5 =at once. It seldom belongs to man to say without presumption, "I came, I saw, I conquered."= _Lavater._

=Intus et in cute novi hominem=--I know the man inside and out. _Pers._

=Intus et in jecore ægro / Nascuntur domini=--Masters spring up in our own breasts, and from a morbid liver. _Pers._

=Intus si recte, ne labora=--If inwardly right, don't worry.

=Intuta quæ indecora=--What is unbecoming is unsafe. _Tac._

=Inveni portum, Spes et Fortuna valete, / Sat= 10 =me lusistis, ludite nunc alios=--I have reached the port; hope and fortune, farewell; you have made sport enough of me; make sport of others now. _Lines at the end of Le Sage's "Gil Blas."_

=Invent first, and then embellish.= _Johnson._

=Invention breeds invention.= _Emerson._

=Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.= _Swift._

=Inventions have all been invented over and over fifty times. Man is the arch-machine, of which all these shifts drawn from himself are toy models.= _Emerson._

=Invia virtuti nulla est via=--No way is impassable 15 to virtue. _Ovid._

=Invidia gloriæ comes=--Envy is the attendant on glory. _Ovid._

="Invidia," jealousy of your neighbour's good, has been, since dust was first made flesh, the curse of man; and "charitas," the desire to do your neighbour grace, the one source of all human glory, power and material blessing.= _Ruskin._

=Invidia Siculi non invenere tyranni / Tormentum majus=--Sicilian tyrants invented nothing that is a greater torment than envy. _Juv._

=Invidiam ferre aut fortis aut felix potest=--Only the brave or the fortunate are able to endure envy. _Pub. Syr._

=Invidiam placare paras, virtute relicta?=--Are 20 you trying to appease envy by the abandonment of virtue?

=Invidus alterius macrescit rebus opimis=--The envious man grows lean at the prosperity of another. _Hor._

=Invidus, iracundus, iners, vinosus, amator, / Nemo adeo ferus est, ut non mitescere possit, / Si modo culturæ patientem commodet aurem=--The envious, the passionate, the indolent, the drunken, the lewd--none is so savage that he cannot be tamed, if he only lend a patient ear to culture. _Hor._

=Invisa nunquam imperia retinentur diu=--Hated governments never hold out long. _Sen._

=Invisa potentia, atque miseranda vita eorum, qui se metui quam amari malunt=--The power is detested, and the life wretched, of those who would rather be feared than loved. _Corn. Nep._

=Invita Minerva=--Without genius or the requisite 25 inspiration; against the will of Minerva.

=Invitat culpam qui peccatum præterit=--He who overlooks one crime invites the commission of another. _Pub. Syr._

=Invitum qui servat idem facit occidenti=--He who saves a man against his will, does the same as if he killed him. _Hor._

=Invitum sequitur honos=--Honour follows him unsolicited. _M._

=Inward cheerfulness is an implicit praise and thanksgiving to Providence under all its dispensations.= _Addison._

=Ipsæ rursum concedite sylvæ=--Once again, ye 30 woods, adieu! _Virg._

=Ipse dixit=--He himself (viz. Pythagoras) said it. Assertion without proof.

=Ipse docet quid agam: fas est et ab hoste doceri=--He himself teaches me what to do; one ought not to be above taking a lesson even from an enemy. _Ovid._

=Ipse Jupiter, neque pluens omnibus placet, neque abstinens=--Even Jupiter himself cannot please all, whether he sends rain or fair weather. _Pr._

=Ipse pavet; nec qua commissas flectat habenas, / Nec scit qua sit iter; nec, si sciat, imperet illis=--Scared himself, he knows neither how to turn the reins intrusted to him, nor which way to go; nor if he did, could he control the horses. _Ovid, of Phaethon._

=Ipsissima verba=--The exact words. 35

=Ipso facto=--By the fact itself.

=Ipso jure=--By the law itself.

=Ir por lana, y volver trasquilado=--To go for wool and come back shorn. _Sp. Pr._

=Ira furor brevis est; animum rege, qui, nisi paret, / Imperat: hunc frenis, hunc tu compesce catena=--Anger is a shortlived madness; control thy temper, for unless it obeys, it commands thee; restrain it with bit and chain. _Hor._

=Ira quæ tegitur nocet; / Professa perdunt= 40 =odia vindictæ locum=--Resentment which is concealed is dangerous; hatred avowed loses its opportunity of revenge. _Sen._

=Irarum tantos volvis sub pectore fluctus?=--Dost thou roll such billows of wrath within your breast? _Virg._

=Iratus cum ad se redit, sibi tum irascitur=--When an angry man returns to himself, he is angry with himself. _Pub. Syr._

=Ire tamen restat, Numa quo devenit et Ancus=--It still remains for you to go where Numa has gone, and Ancus before you. _Hor._

=Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.= _Bible._

=Iron with often handling is worn to nothing.= 45 _Lyly's Euphues._

=Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.= _Whipple._

=Irony is jesting hidden behind gravity.= _John Weiss._

=Irremeabilis unda=--The river there is no recrossing; the styx. _Hor._

=Irresolution loosens all our joints; like an ague, it shakes not this limb or that limb, but all the body is at once in a fit. The irresolute man hatches nothing, but addles all his actions.= _Feltham._

=Irritabis crabrones=--You will irritate the hornets. 50 _Plaut._

=Irritation, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.= _George Eliot._

=Irrthum verlässt uns nie; doch ziehet ein höher Bedürfniss immer den strebenden Geist leise zur Wahrheit hinan=--Error never leaves us, yet a higher need always draws the striving spirit gently on to truth. _Goethe._

=Is a man one whit the better because he is grown great in other men's esteem?= _Thomas à Kempis._

=Is any place so inaccessible that an ass laden with gold cannot penetrate?= _Philip of Macedon to a scout who pronounced a certain territory impregnable._

=Is beauty vain because it will fade? Then are earth's green robe and heavens light vain.= _Pierpont._

=Is cadet ante senem, qui sapit ante diem=--He 5 will die before he is old who is prematurely wise. _Pr._

=Is common opinion the standard of merit?= _Thomas à Kempis._

=Is habitus animorum fuit, ut pessimum facinus auderent pauci, plures vellent, omnes paterentur=--Such was the public temper, that some few dared to perpetrate the vilest crimes, more were fain to do so, and all looked passively on. _Tac._

=Is it in destroying and pulling down that skill is displayed? The shallowest understanding, the rudest hand, is more equal to that task.= _Burke._

=Is it not astonishing that the love of repose keeps us in continual agitation?= _Stanislaus._

=Is it not strange that men should be so ready= 10 =to fight for religion and so reluctant to observe its precepts?= _Lichtenberg._

=Is it not the same to whoso wears a shoe as if the earth were thatched all over with leather?= _Hitopadesa._

=Is it right to despair, and shall truth make us sad?= _Renan._

=Is maxime divitiis utitur, qui minime divitiis indiget=--He employs riches to the best purpose who least needs them. _Sen._

=Is mihi demum vivere et frui anima videtur, qui aliquo negotio intentus, præclari facinoris aut artis bonæ famam quærit=--He alone appears to me to live and to enjoy life, who, being engaged in some business, seeks reputation by some illustrious action or some useful art. _Sall._

=Is mihi videtur amplissimus qui sua virtute in= 15 =altiorem locum pervenit=--He is in my regard the most illustrious man who has risen by his own virtues. _Cic._

=Is not belief the true God-announcing miracle?= _Novalis._

=Is not cant the= _prima materia_ =of the devil, from which all falsehoods, imbecilities, abominations body themselves, from which no true thing can come?= _Carlyle._

=Is not light greater than fire? It is the same element in a state of purity.= _Carlyle._

=Is not marriage an open question when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?= _Emerson._

=Is not shame the soil of all virtue, of all good= 20 =manners and good morals?= _Carlyle._

=Is ordo vitio careto, cæteris specimen esto=--Let this class (viz. the nobility of Rome) be free from vice and a pattern to the rest. _The Twelve Tables._

=Is sapiens qui se ad casus accommodet omnes; / Stultus pugnat in adversis ire natator aquis=--He is a wise man who adapts himself to all contingencies; the fool struggles like a swimmer against the stream.

=Is that a wonder which happens in two hours; and does it cease to be wonderful if happening in two millions?= _Carlyle._

=Is the God present, felt in my own heart, a thing which Herr von Voltaire will dispute out of me or dispute into me? To the "worship of sorrow"= (Christianity) =ascribe what origin and genesis thou pleasest, has not that worship originated and been generated; is it not here? Feel it in thy heart and then say whether it is of God!= _Carlyle._

=Is the jay more precious than the lark because= 25 =his feathers are more beautiful?= _Tam. of Shrew_, iv. 3.

=Is there anything of its own nature beautiful or not beautiful? The beauty of a thing is even that by which it shineth.= _Hitopadesa._

=Is there evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it?= _Bible._

=Is there for honest poverty / That hangs his head, and a' that? / The coward slave we pass him by, / We dare be poor for a' that.= _Burns._

=Is there no God, then? but at best an absentee God, sitting idle, ever since the first Sabbath, at the outside of His universe, and seeing it go?= _Carlyle._

=Is there no stoning save with flint and rock?= 30 _Tennyson._

=Is there no way to bring home a wandering sheep but by worrying him to death?= _Thomas Fuller._

=Is this a dagger which I see before me, / The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.= _Macb._, ii. 1.

=Is thy complexion sour? / Then keep such company.= _Herbert._

=Is your trumpeter dead, that you are obliged to praise yourself?= _Pr._

=Isaac's fond blessing may not fall on scorn, /= 35 =Nor Balaam's curse on love which God hath blest.= _Keble._

=Island ez hinn besta haud sun solinn shinnar uppà=--Iceland is the best land on which the sun shines. _Icelandic Pr._

=Isolation is the sum-total of wretchedness to a man.= _Carlyle._

=Ist's Gottes Werk, so wird's besteh'n / Ist's Menschenwerk, wird's untergeh'n=--If it be God's work, it will stand; if man's, it will perish.

=Ista decens facies longis vitiabitur annis; / Rugaque in antiqua fronte senilis erit=--That comely face of thine will be marred by length of years, and the wrinkle of age will one day scar thine aged brow. _Ovid._

=Istæc in me cudetur faba=--I shall have to smart 40 for it (_lit._ that bean will hit me). _Ter._

=Istuc est sapere, non quod ante pedes modo est / Videre, sed etiam illa quæ futura sunt / Prospicere=--That is wisdom, not merely to see what is immediately before one's eyes, but to forecast what is going to happen. _Ter._

=Istuc est sapere, qui, ubicunque opus sit, animum possis flectere=--You are a wise man if you can easily direct your attention to whatever may require it. _Ter._

=It= (love) =adds a precious seeing to the eye.= _Love's L. Lost_, iv. 3.

=It belongs to great men to have great defects.= _Fr. Pr._

=It can do us no harm to look at what is extraordinary with our own eyes.= _Goethe._

=It chanceth in an hour that cometh not in seven years.= _Pr._

=It costs more to revenge injuries than to bear= 5 =them.= _Pr._

=It dawns no sooner for one's early rising.= _Port. Pr._

=It exalteth a man from earthly things to love those that are heavenly.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=It happens as with cages, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.= _Montaigne._

=It happens to men of learning as to ears of corn; they shoot up and raise their heads high while they are empty; but when full and swelled with grain, they begin to flag and droop.= (?)

=It has been well said that our anxiety does= 10 =not empty to-morrow of its sorrows, but only empties to-day of its strength.= _Spurgeon._

=It is a bad trade that of censor; he is sure to incur the hatred of those he censures, without finding them improved by the correction.= _Guy Patin._

=It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that he thinks no evil of the object loved.= _Longfellow._

=It is a beggarly conception to judge as if poetry should always be capable of a prose rendering.= _John Morley._

=It is a brave act of valour to contemn death; but when life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valour to dare to live.= _Sir T. Browne._

=It is a characteristic of true genius to disturb= 15 =all settled ideas.= _Goethe._

=It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.= _Schopenhauer._

=It is a common error to think that in politics legislation is everything and administration nothing.= _Macaulay._

=It is a common failing of old men to attribute all wisdom to themselves.= _Fielding._

=It is a common law of Nature, which no time will ever change, that superiors shall rule their inferiors.= _Dionysius._

=It is a custom / More honoured in the breach= 20 =than the observance.= _Ham._, i. 4.

=It is a damnable audacity to bring forth that torturing Cross, and the Holy One who suffers on it, and to expose them to the light of the sun, which hid its face when a reckless world forced such a sight on it; to take these mysterious secrets, in which the divine depth of sorrow lies hid, and play with them, fondle them, trick them out, and rest not till the most reverend of all solemnities appears vulgar and paltry.= _Goethe._

=It is a delusion= (_Wahn_) =to suppose that adversity= (_Unglück_) =makes man better. As well believe that the rust makes the knife sharp, dirt promotes purity, and mud clarifies the stream.= _Bodenstedt._

="It is a devout imagination."= _The Regent Murray's answer to John Knox's proposal to conserve the property of the Church for the spiritual benefit of the lieges._

=It is a fair and holy office to be a prophet of Nature.= _Novalis._

=It is a fine thing to command, though it were= 25 =but a herd of cattle.= _Cervantes._

=It is a foul bird that dirties its own nest.= _Pr._

=It is a golden rule not to judge men according to their opinions, but according to the effect these opinions have on their character.= _Lichtenberg._

=It is a good divine that follows his own instructions.= _Mer. of Ven._, i. 2.

=It is a good horse that never stumbles, and a good wife that never grumbles.= _Pr._

=It is a good thing to stay away till one's company= 30 =is desired, but not so good to stay after it is desired.= _Johnson._

=It is a grave offence to bind a Roman citizen, a crime to flog him, almost the act of a parricide to put him to death; what shall I call crucifying him? Language worthy of such an enormity it is impossible to find.= _Cic._

=It is a great ease to have one in our own shape a species below us, and who, without being enlisted in our service, is by nature of our retinue.= _Steele._

=It is a great journey to life's end.= _Pr._

=It is a great misfortune not to possess talent enough to speak well, or sense enough to hold one's tongue.= _La Bruyère._

=It is a great mistake to think that because= 35 =you have read a masterpiece once or twice or ten times, therefore you have done with it.... You ought to live with it and make it part of your daily life.= _John Morley._

=It is a great piece of folly to sacrifice the inner for the outer man.= _Schopenhauer._

=It is a great pity when the man who should be the head figure is a mere figure-head.= _Spurgeon._

=It is a great point of wisdom to find out one's own folly.= _Pr._

=It is a great shame to a man to have a poor heart and a rich purse.= _Cato._

=It is a great sin to swear unto a sin, / But a= 40 =greater still to keep a sinful oath.= 2 _Hen. VI._, v. 1.

=It is a great step in finesse to make people under-estimate your acuteness.= _La Bruyère._

=It is a hard winter when one wolf eats another.= _Pr._

=It is a kindly spirit which actually constitutes the human element in man.= _Schiller._

=It is a long lane that has no turning.= _Pr._

=It is a long way from granite to the oyster;= 45 =farther yet to Plato, and the preaching of the immortality of the soul.= _Emerson._

=It is a low benefit to give me something; it is a high benefit to enable me to do somewhat of myself.= _Emerson._

=It is a lucky eel that escapes skinning.= _George Eliot._

=It is a main lesson of wisdom to know your own from another's.= _Emerson._

=It is a man's sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.= _Carlyle._

=It is a mathematical fact that the casting of a pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.= _Carlyle._

=It is a maxim of those who are esteemed perfect, that abundance is the perverter of reason.= _Hitopadesa._

=It is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends, without which the world is but a wilderness.= _Bacon._

=It is a moral impossibility that any son or daughter of Adam can stand on any ground that mortal treads, and gainsay the healthy tenure on which we hold our existence.= _Dickens._

=It is a poor art that the artisan can't live by.= 5 _It. Pr._

=It is a poor heart that never rejoices.= _Pr._

=It is a poor horse that is not worth its oats.= _Dan. Pr._

=It is a poor mouse that has but one hole.= _Pr._

=It is a poor sport that is not worth the candle.= _George Herbert._

=It is a profound error to presume that everything= 10 =has been discovered; it is to take the horizon which bounds the eye for the limit of the world.= _Lemierre._

=It is a proof of mediocrity of intellect to be addicted to relating stories.= _La Bruyère._

=It is a rare thing, except it be from a perfect and entire friend, to have counsel given us, but such as shall be bowed and crooked to some ends which he hath that giveth it.= _Bacon._

=It is a reproach to be the first gentleman of one's race, but greater to be the last.= _Pr._

=It is a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.= _Pr._

=It is a shame for a man to desire honour because= 15 =of his ancestors, and not to deserve it by his own virtue.= _St. Chrysostom._

=It is a sign that your reputation is small or sinking if your own tongue must praise you.= _Judge Hale._

=It is a sin against hospitality to open your doors and shut up your countenance.= _Pr._

=It is a small virtue to keep silence on matters, but a grave fault to speak of what should be kept silent.= _Ovid._

=It is a sorry goose that will not baste itself.= _Pr._

=It is a strange habit of wise humanity to speak= 20 =in enigmas only.= _Ruskin._

=It is a universal weakness of human nature to have an inordinate faith in things unseen and unknown, and to be affected unduly by them.= _Cæsar._

=It is a very good world to live in, / To lend, or to spend, or to give in; / But to beg, or to borrow, or to get a man's own, / It is the very worst world that ever was known.= _Rochester._

=It is a very risky, nay, a fatal thing, to be sociable.= _Schiller._

=It is a virtue in hermits to forgive their enemies as well as their friends; but it is a fault in princes to show clemency towards those who are guilty.= _Hitopadesa._

=It is a wise father that knows his own child.= 25 _Mer. of Ven._, ii. 2.

=It is absurd to contend for any sense of words in opposition to usage; for all senses are founded upon usage, and upon nothing else.= _Paley._

=It is advisable that a man should know at least three things:--first, where he is; secondly, where he is going; thirdly, what he had best do under the circumstances.= _Ruskin._

=It is all in my eye=, _i.e._, it is nowhere else. _Pr._

=It is allowed by the laws of war to deceive an enemy by feints, false colours, spies, false intelligence, or the like; but by no means in treaties, truces, signals of capitulation or surrender.= _Paley._

=It is always an ease, and sometimes a happiness,= 30 =to have nothing.= _Joseph Hall._

=It is always by adventurers that great deeds are done, and not by the sovereigns of great empires.=

=It is always good when a man has two irons in the fire.= _F. Beaumont._

=It is always necessary to show some good opinion of those whose good opinion we solicit.= _Johnson._

=It is always term time in the court of conscience.= _Pr._

=It is always the individual, not the age, that= 35 =stands up for the truth.= _Goethe._

=It is always vitally important to ourselves to be scrupulously true.= _Spurgeon._

=It is an argument of great wisdom to do nothing rashly, nor to be obstinate and inflexible in our opinions.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=It is an assured sign of a worthy and generous spirit whom honour amends; for honour is, or should be, the place of virtue.= _Bacon._

=It is an egregious error to go by the exception instead of the rule.= _Pascal._

=It is an equal failing to trust everybody and= 40 =to trust nobody.= _Pr._

=It is an honour for a man to cease from strife.= _Bible._

=It is an ill sign to see a fox lick a lamb.= _Pr._

=It is an ill wind that blows nobody good.= _Pr._

=It is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as to invent.= _Emerson._

=It is as easy to be a scholar as a gamester.= 45 _Haweis._

=It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding it out.= _La Roche._

=It is as great a point of wisdom to hide ignorance, as to discover knowledge.= (?)

=It is as little the part of a wise man to reflect much on the nature of beings above him as of beings beneath him.= _Ruskin._

=It is as much a part of true temperance to be pleased with the little that we know and the little that we can do as with the little that we have.= _Ruskin._

=It is as much intemperance to weep too much= 50 =as to laugh too much.= _Pr._

=It is as natural for the old to be prejudiced as for the young to be presumptuous; and in the change of centuries each generation has something to judge for itself.= _Ruskin._

=It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet an old man whose opinions are not ossified.= _J. F. Boyes._

=It is as sport to a fool to do mischief.= _Bible._

=It is at least fatal to the philosophic pretension of a line or stanza if, when it is fairly reduced to prose, the prose discloses that it is nonsense.= _John Morley._

=It is bad, having once known the right, / And the impulse of nobleness prized, / To accept the less worthy, and order the fight / For a cause that is meaner, and walk by a light / That you once had despised.= _Dr. Walter Smith._

=It is beneath the dignity of a soul that has but a grain of sense to make chance, and winds, and waves the arbitrary disposers of happiness.= _Lucas._

=It is best not to be angry; and best, in the next= 5 =place, to be quickly reconciled.= _Johnson._

=It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.= _Arist._

=It is best to take half in hand and the rest by and by.= _Pr._

=It is best to take with thankfulness and admiration from each man what he has to give.= _John Morley._

=It is better and kinder to flog a man to his work than to leave him idle till he robs and flog him afterwards.= _Ruskin._

=It is better for a young man to blush than to= 10 =turn pale.= _Cato._

=It is better for the man whom God helps than for him who rises early.= _Cervantes._

=It is better living on a little than outliving a great deal.= (?)

=It is better not to live at all than to live dishonoured.= _Sophocles._

=It Is better to be a self-made man, filled up according to God's original pattern, than to be half a man, made after some other man's pattern.= _J. G. Holland._

=It is better to be affected with a true penitent= 15 =sorrow for sin than to be able to resolve the most difficult cases about it.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=It is better to be lost than to be saved all alone.= _Amiel._

=It is better to be nothing than a knave.= _M. Antoninus._

=It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.= _Fr. Pr._

=It is better to be the head o' the commonalty than the tail o' the gentry.= _Sc. Pr._

=It is better to be wrong by rule than to be= 20 =wrong with nothing but the fitful caprice of our disposition to impel us.= _Natalia in "Wilhelm Meister."_

=It is better to cleanse ourselves of our sins now, than to reserve them to be cleansed at some future time.= _Thomas à Kempis._

=It is better to create than to be learned. Creating is the essence of life.= _Niebuhr._

=It is better to die once than live always in fear of death.= _Cæsar._

=It is better to do well than to say well.= _Pr._

=It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop= 25 =than with a brawling woman in a wide house.= _Bible._

=It is better to fight for the good than to rail at the ill.= _Tennyson._

=It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting.= _Bible._

=It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.= _Defoe._

=It is better to have friends in our passage through life than grateful dependants; and as love is a more willing, so it is a more lasting tribute than extorted obligation.= _Goldsmith._

=It is better to have loved and lost than never= 30 =to have loved at all.= _Tennyson._

=It is better to have one's evil days when one is young than when one is old.= _Carlyle._

=It is better to have to do with God than with His saints.= _Fr. Pr._

=It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise than for a man to hear the song of fools.= _Bible._

=It is better to live by begging one's bread than to gratify the mouth at the expense of others.= _Hitopadesa._

=It is better to live in a haunted forest ... than= 35 =to live amongst relations after the loss of wealth.= _Hitopadesa._

=It is better to live on the crust of your own industry than on the fruits of other people's.= _Cervantes._

=It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.= _B. R. Haydon._

=It is better to trust the eye than the ear.= _Ger. Pr._

=It is bitter fare eating one's own words.= _Dan. Pr._

=It is but the outer hem of God's great mantle= 40 =our poor stars do gem.= _Ruskin._

=It is but vain to waste honey on those that will be caught with gall.= _Quarles._

=It is by attempting to reach the top by a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.= _Cobbett._

=It is by being conversant with the inventions of others that we learn to invent, as by reading the thoughts of others we learn to think.= _Joshua Reynolds._

=It is by faith that poetry as well as devotion soars above this dull earth.= _Henry Giles._

=It is by his personal conduct that any man of= 45 =ordinary power will do the greatest amount of good that is in him to do.= _Ruskin._

=It is by imitation, more than by precept, that we learn anything.= _Burke._

=It is by presence of mind in untried circumstances that the native metal of a man is tested.= _Lowell._

=It is by study that we become contemporaries of every age and citizens of the world.= (?)

=It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the moment I can convince another mind thereof.= _Novalis._

=It is certain that either wise bearing or= 50 =ignorant carriage is caught as men take diseases, one of another.= 2 _Hen. IV._, v. 1.

=It is character which builds an existence out of circumstance. Our strength is measured by our plastic power.= _Carlyle._

=It is cheap enough to say, "God help you."= _Pr._

=It is common to esteem most what is unknown.= _Tac._

=It is commonly the imagination which is wounded first, rather than the heart; it is so much more sensitive.= _Thoreau._

=It is courage that conquers in war, and not good weapons.= _Sp. Pr._

=It is cowardly to quit the post the gods elect for us before they permit us.= _Pythagoras._

=It is delightful, after wandering in the thick darkness of metaphysics, to behold again the fair face of Truth.= _Carlyle._

=It is delightful to transport one's self into the spirit of the past, to see how a wise man has thought before us, and to what a glorious height we have at last reached.= _Goethe._

=It is difficult to act a part long, for where= 5 =truth is not at the bottom, nature will peep out and betray itself one time or other.= _South._

=It is difficult to descend with grace without seeming to fall.= _Blair._

=It is difficult to do good without multiplying the sources of evil.= _Ruskin._

=It is difficult to feel deep veneration and great affection for one and the same person.= _La Roche._

=It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.= _Longfellow._

=It is difficult to say whether irresolution renders= 10 =a man the more unhappy or the more despicable; also whether it is productive of worse consequences to make a bad resolution, or none at all.= _La Bruyère._

=It is difficulties that give birth to miracles.= _Dr. Sharpe._

=It is dreary= (_öde_) =to be able to respect nothing but one's self.= _Fr. Hebbel._

=It is doubt= (_Zweifel_) =which turns good into bad.= _Goethe._

=It is downright madness to contend where we are sure to be worsted.= _L'Estrange._

=It is easier for a wit to keep fire in his mouth,= 15 =than to hold in a witty saying that he is burning to tell.= _Cic._

=It is easier not to begin to go wrong than it is to turn back and do better after beginning.= _President Garfield._

=It is easier to carry the world in one's thoughts than on one's shoulders.= _A. B. Alcott._

=It is easier to know man in general than men in particular.= _La Roche._

=It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.= _Ben. Franklin._

=It is easier to worship than to obey.= _Jean_ 20 _Paul._

=It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.= _Montaigne._

=It is easy for a man who sits idle at home, and has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule or censure the common ways of mankind.= _Johnson._

=It is easy for men to write and talk like philosophers; but to act with wisdom, there's the rub.= _Rivarole._

=It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.= _Emerson._

=It is easy to be a spendthrift with other people's= 25 =property.= _Platen._

=It is easy to condemn; it is better to pity.= _Abbott._

=It is easy to criticise an author, but it is difficult to appreciate him.= _Vauvenargues._

=It is easy to give offence, though it is hard to appease.= _Grillparzer._

=It is easy to open a shop, but hard to keep it open.= _Chinese Pr._

=It is easy to screw one's self up into high and= 30 =ever higher altitudes of Transcendentalism, and see nothing under one but the everlasting snows of Himalaya, the earth shrinking into a planet, and the indigo firmament sowing itself with daylight stars; but whither does it lead? One dreads always to inanity and mere injuring of the lungs.= _Carlyle to Emerson._

=It is enough for thee to know what each day wills; and what each day wills the day itself will tell.= _Goethe._