DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS. (continued 10)

Honours, like impressions upon coin, may give an ideal and local value to a bit of base metal; but gold and silver will pass all the world over, without any other recommendation than their own weight. Sterne.

Honours to one in my situation are something like ruffles to a man that wants a shirt. Goldsmith, of himself.

Honour's the moral conscience of the great. D'Avenant.

Honteux comme un renard qu'une poule aurait pris—Sheepish as a fox that has been taken in by a fowl. La Font.

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick. Bible. 5

Hope is a curtail dog in some affairs. Merry Wives, ii. 1.

Hope is a good anchor, but it needs something to grip. Pr.

Hope is a lover's staff; walk hence with that, / And manage it against despairing thoughts. Two Gent. of Ver., iii. 1.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance but an unsafe friend. He'll do on a pinch for your travelling companion, but he's not the man for your banker. Amer. Pr.

Hope is a waking man's dream. Pr. 10

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and perhaps the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures, its excesses must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment. Johnson.

Hope is not the man for your banker, though he may do for your travelling companion. Haliburton.

Hope is the best part of our riches. Bovee.

Hope is the only good which is common to all men. Thales.

Hope is the ruddy morning ray of joy, recollection 15 is its golden tinge; but the latter is wont to sink amid the dews and dusky shades of twilight, and the bright blue day which the former promises breaks indeed, but in another world and with another sun. Jean Paul.

Hope never comes that comes to all. Milton.

Hope never spread her golden wings but in unfathomable seas. Emerson.

Hope not wholly to reason away your troubles; but do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Johnson.

Hope, of all ills that men endure, / The only cheap and universal cure. Cowley.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast; / 20 Man never is, but always to be, blest. Pope.

Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing. Burns.

Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all. Quoted by Swinburne.

Hope to joy is little less in joy / Than hope enjoyed. Rich. II., ii. 3.

Hoping and waiting is not my way of doing things. Goethe.

Hora e sempre—Now and always. M. 25

Horæ cedunt, et dies, et menses, et anni, nec præteritum tempus unquam revertitur—Hours and days, months and years, pass away, and time once past never returns. Cic.

Horæ / Momento cita mors venit, aut victoria læta—In a moment of time comes sudden death or joyful victory. Hor.

Horas non numero nisi serenas—I mark no hours but the shining ones. Of a dial.

Horrea formicæ tendunt ad inania nunquam; / Nullus ad amissas ibit amicus opes—As ants never bend their way to empty barns, so no friend will visit departed wealth. Ovid.

Horresco referens—I shudder as I relate. Virg. 30

Horribile dictu—Horrible to relate.

Horror ubique animos, simul ipsa silentia terrent—Everywhere horror seizes the soul, and the very silence is dreadful. Virg.

Horror vacui—Abhorrence of a vacuum.

Hors de combat—Out of condition to fight. Fr.

Hors de propos—Not to the purpose. Fr. 35

Hortus siccus—A dry garden; a collection of dried plants.

Hos successus alit; possunt quia posse videntur—These are encouraged by success; they prevail because they think they can. Virg.

Hospice d'accouchement—A maternity hospital. Fr.

Hospice d'allaitement—A foundling hospital. Fr.

Hospitality must be for service, not for show, 40 or it pulls down the host. Emerson.

Hostis est uxor invita quæ ad virum nuptum datur—The wife who is given in marriage to a man against her will becomes his enemy. Plaut.

Hostis honori invidia—Envy is honour's foe. M.

Hôtel de ville—A town-hall. Fr.

Hôtel Dieu—The house of God; the name of an hospital. Fr.

Household words. Hen. V., iv. 3. 45

Housekeeping without a wife is a lantern without a light. Pr.

Houses are built to live in, and not to look on. Bacon.

How are riches the means of happiness? In acquiring they create trouble, in their loss they occasion sorrow, and they are the cause of endless divisions amongst kindred! Hitopadesa.

How beautiful is death, seeing that we die in a world of life and of creation without end! Jean Paul.

How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams, / 50 With its allusions, aspirations, dreams! / Book of beginnings, story without end, / Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend. Longfellow.

How beautiful to die of a broken heart on paper! Quite another thing in practice! Every window of your feeling, even of your intellect, as it were begrimed, so that no pure ray can enter; a whole drug-shop in your inwards; the foredone soul drowning slowly in a quagmire of disgust. Carlyle.

How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes! As You Like It, v. 2.

How blessed might poor mortals be in the straitest circumstances, if only their wisdom and fidelity to Heaven and one another were adequately great. Carlyle, apropos to his life at Craigenputtock.

How blessings brighten as they take their flight! Young.

How blest the humble cotter's fate! / He woos his simple dearie; / The silly bogles, wealth, and state, / Can never make them eerie. Burns.

How can a man be concealed? How can a man be concealed? Confucius.

How can he be godly who is not cleanly? Pr.

How can man love but what he yearns to help? Browning.

How can we expect a harvest of thought 5 who have not had a seed-time of character? Thoreau.

How can we learn to know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Essay to do thy duty, and thou knowest at once what is in thee. Goethe.

How charming is divine philosophy! Milton.

How creatures of the human kind shut their eyes to the plainest facts, and by the mere inertia of oblivion and stupidity live at ease in the midst of wonders and terrors. Carlyle.

How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness. B. R. Haydon.

How dire is love when one is so tortured; and 10 yet lovers cannot exist without torturing themselves. Goethe.

How doth the little busy bee / Improve each shining hour, / And gather honey all the day / From every opening flower. Watts.

How dull it is to pause, to make an end, / To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use, / As though to breathe were life. Tennyson.

How enormous appear the crimes we have not committed! Mme. Necker.

How far that little candle throws his beams! / So shines a good deed in a naughty world. Mer. of Ven., v. 1.

How fast has brother followed / From sunshine 15 to the sunless land. Wordsworth.

How few think justly of the thinking few; / How many never think, who think they do! Jane Taylor.

How foolish and absurd, nay, how hurtful and destructive a vice is ambition, which, by undue pursuit of honour, robs us of true honour! Thomas à Kempis.

How forcible are right words! Bible.

How fortunate beyond all others is the man who, in order to adjust himself to fate, is not required to cast away his whole preceding life! Goethe.

How full of briers is this working-day world! 20 As You Like It, i. 3.

How glorious a character appears when it is penetrated with mind and soul. Goethe.

How good is man's life, the mere living! how fit to employ / All the heart, and the soul, and the senses for ever in joy! Browning.

How happy could I be with either, / Were t'other dear charmer away! Gay.

How happy is he born or taught / That serveth not another's will; / Whose armour is his honest thought, / And simple truth his utmost skill. Sir Henry Wotton.

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! / 25 The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Pope.

How happy is the prince who has counsellors near him who can guard him against the effects of his own angry passions; their names shall be read in golden letters when the history of his reign is perused. Scott.

How happy should we be ... / If we from self could rest, / And feel at heart that One above, / In perfect wisdom, perfect love, / Is working for the best! Anstice.

How hard it is (for the Byron, for the Burns), whose ear is quick for celestial messages, to "take no counsel with flesh and blood," and instead of living and writing for the day that passes over them, live and write for the eternity that rests and abides over them! Carlyle.

How hardly man the lesson learns, / To smile, and bless the hand that spurns: / To see the blow, to feel the pain, / And render only love again! Anon.

How hardly shall they who have riches enter 30 into the kingdom of God! Jesus.

How ill white hairs become a fool and a jester. 2 Hen. IV., v. 5.

How indestructibly the good grows, and propagates itself, even among the weedy entanglements of evil! Carlyle.

How is each of us so lonely in the wide bosom of the All? Jean Paul.

How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice, when they will not so much as take warning. Swift.

How little do the wantonly or idly officious 35 think what mischief they do by their malicious insinuations, indirect impertinence, or thoughtless babblings! Burns.

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man. Ovid.

How long halt ye between two opinions? Bible.

How long I have lived, how much lived in vain! / How little of life's scanty span may remain! / What aspects old Time in his progress has worn! / What ties cruel fate in my bosom has torn! / How foolish, or worse, till our summit is gain'd! / And downward, how weaken'd, how darken'd, how pain'd! Burns.

How many ages hence / Shall this our lofty scene be acted over / In states unborn and accents yet unknown! Jul. Cæs., iii. 1.

How many causes that can plead for themselves 40 in the courts of Westminster, and yet in the general court of the universe and free soul of man, have no word to utter! Carlyle.

How many cowards, whose hearts are all as false / As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins / The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars! / Who, inward searched, have livers white as milk. Mer. of Venice, iii. 2.

How many honest words have suffered corruption since Chaucer's days! Middleton.

How many illustrious and noble heroes have lived too long by a day! Rousseau.

How many men live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made! Holmes.

How many people make themselves abstract 45 to appear profound! The greatest part of abstract terms are shadows that hide a vacuum. Joubert.

How many things by season season'd are / To their right praise and true perfection! Mer. of Venice, v. 1.

How many things, just and unjust, have no higher sanction than custom! Ter.

How much a dunce that has been sent to roam / Excels a dunce that has been kept at home! Cowper.

How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver! Bible.

How much better it is to weep at joy than to 5 joy at weeping! Much Ado, i. 4.

How much easier it is to be generous than just! Junius.

How much lies in laughter, the cipher-key wherewith we decipher the whole man. Carlyle.

How much the wife is dearer than the bride! Lyttelton.

How narrow our souls become when absorbed in any present good or ill! It is only the thought of the future that makes them great. Jean Paul.

How noble is heroic insight without words in 10 comparison to the adroitest flow of words without heroic insight! Carlyle.

How noiseless is thought! No rolling of drums, no tramp of squadrons, or immeasurable tumult of baggage-waggons, attends its movements; in what obscure and sequestered places may the head be meditating which is one day to be crowned with more than imperial authority; for kings and emperors will be among its ministering servants; it will rule not over, but in all heads, and bend the world to its will. Carlyle.

How oft do they their silver bowers leave / To come to succour us that succour want! Spenser.

How one is vexed with little things in this life! The great evils one triumphs over bravely, but the little eat away one's heart. Mrs. Carlyle.

How paint to the sensual eye what passes in the holy-of-holies of man's soul; in what words, known to these profane times, speak even afar-off of the unspeakable? Carlyle.

How poor are they that have not patience! / 15 What wound did ever heal but by degrees? Othello, ii. 3.

How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, / How complicate, how wonderful is man! Young.

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise! Pope, after Homer.

How quick to know, but how slow to put in practice, is the human creature! Goethe.

How quickly Nature falls into revolt / When gold becomes her object! 2 Hen. IV., iv. 4.

How rarely reason guides the stubborn 20 choice, / Rules the bold hand or prompts the suppliant voice. Johnson.

How ready some people are to admire in a great man the exception rather than the rule of his conduct! Such perverse worship is like the idolatry of barbarous nations, who can see the noonday splendour of the sun without emotion, but who, when he is in eclipse, come forward with hymns and cymbals to adore him. Canning.

How rich a man is, all desire to know, / But none enquire if good he be or no. Herrick.

How sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs! Dante.

How science dwindles, and how volumes swell, / How commentators each dark passage shun, / And hold their farthing candle to the sun! Young.

How shall a man escape from his ancestors, or 25 draw off from his veins the black drop which he drew from his father's or his mother's life? Emerson.

How shall he give kindling in whose inward man there is no live coal, but all is burnt out to a dead grammatical cinder? Carlyle.

How shall we know whether you are in earnest, if the deed does not accompany the word? Schiller.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is / To have a thankless child! King Lear, i. 4.

How small a part of time they share / That are so wondrous sweet and fair! E. Waller.

How small, of all that human hearts endure, / 30 That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! / Still to ourselves, in every place consigned, / Our own felicity we make or find. Johnson.

How should he be easy who makes other men's cares his own? Thomas à Kempis.

How should thy virtue be above the shocks and shakings of temptation, when even the angels kept not their first estate, and man in Paradise so soon fell from innocence? Thomas à Kempis.

How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night, / Like softest music to attending ears! Rom. and Jul., ii. 2.

How soon "not now" becomes "never!" Luther.

How sour sweet music is, when time is broke 35 and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of men's lives. Rich. II., v. 5.

How still the evening is, / As hushed on purpose to grace harmony! Much Ado, ii. 3.

How sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from a stranger's mouth! Goethe.

How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! / Here will we sit and let the sounds of music / Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night / Become the touches of sweet harmony. Mer. of Ven., v. 1.

How the sight of means to do ill deeds / Make deeds ill done! King John, iv. 2.

How the world wags! As You Like It, ii. 7. 40

How they gleam like spirits through the shadows of innumerable eyes from their thrones in the boundless depths of heaven! Carlyle, on the stars.

How use doth breed habit in a man! Two Gent. of Ver., v. 4.

How vainly seek / The selfish for that happiness denied / To aught but virtue! Shelley.

How we clutch at shadows (in this dream-world) as if they were substances, and sleep deepest while fancying ourselves most awake! Carlyle.

How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable / 45 Seem to me all the uses of this world. Ham., i. 2.

How well he's read, to reason against reading! Love's L. Lost, i. 1.

How were friendship possible? In mutual devotedness to the good and true, otherwise impossible; except as armed neutrality or hollow commercial league. Carlyle.

How wonderful is Death, / Death and his brother Sleep! / One, pale as yonder waning moon, / With lips of lurid blue; / The other, rosy as the morn, / When, throned on ocean's wave, / It blushes o'er the world: / Yet both so passing wonderful. Shelley.

How wounding a spectacle is it to see those who were by Christ designed for fishers of men, picking up shells on the shore, and unmanly wrangling about them too! Decay of Piety.

How wretched is the man that hangs on by the favours of the great! Burns.

Howe'er it be, it seems to me / 'Tis only noble 5 to be good. / Kind hearts are more than coronets, / And simple faith than Norman blood. Tennyson.

However, an old song, though to a proverb an instance of insignificance, is generally the only coin a poet has to pay with. Burns.

However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive. La Roche.

However far a man goes, he must start from his own door. Pr.

However varied the forms of destiny, the same element are always present. Schopenhauer.

Howsoever thou actest, let heaven be moved 10 with thy purpose; let the aim of thy deeds traverse the axis of the earth. Schiller.

Huc propius me, / Dum doceo insanire omnes, vos ordine adite—Come near me all in order, and I will convince you that you are mad, every one. Hor.

Huic maxime putamus malo fuisse nimiam opinionem ingenii atque virtutis—This I think to have been the chief cause of his misfortune, an overweening estimate of his own genius and valour. Nep., of Themistocles.

Huic versatile ingenium sic pariter ad omnia fuit, ut natum ad id unum diceres, quodcunque ageret—This man's genius was so versatile, so equal to every pursuit, that you would pronounce him to have been born for whatever thing he was engaged on. Livy, on the elder Cato.

Human action is a seed of circumstances (Verhängnissen) scattered in the dark land of the future and hopefully left to the powers that rule human destiny. Schiller.

Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, 15 elude the barriers of system. George Eliot.

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provisions of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction. Swift.

Human courage should rise to the height of human calamity. Gen. Lee.

Human creatures will not go quite accurately together, any more than clocks will. Carlyle.

Human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh. Sen.

Human intellect, if you consider it well, is the 20 exact summary of human worth. Carlyle.

Human judgment is finite, and it ought always to be charitable. W. Winter.

Human knowledge is the parent of doubt. Greville.

Human life is a constant want, and ought to be a constant prayer. S. Osgood.

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured and little to be enjoyed. Johnson.

Human life is more governed by fortune than 25 by reason. Hume.

Human nature in its fulness is necessarily human; without love, it is inhuman; without sense (nous), inhuman; without discipline, inhuman. Ruskin.

Human nature ... / Is not a punctual presence, but a spirit / Diffused through time and space. Wordsworth.

Human nature (Menschheit) we owe to father and mother, but our humanity (Menschlichkeit) we owe to education. Weber.

Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other. Luther.

Human society is made up of partialities. 30 Emerson.

Humani nihil alienum—Nothing that concerns man is indifferent to me. M.

Humanität sei unser ewig Ziel—Be humanity evermore our goal. Goethe.

Humanitati qui se non accommodat, / Plerumque pœnas oppetit superbiæ—He who does not conform to courtesy generally pays the penalty of his haughtiness. Phædr.

Humanity is about the same all the world over. Donn Piatt.

Humanity is better than gold. Goldsmith. 35

Humanity is constitutionally lazy. J. G. Holland.

Humanity is great but men are small. Börne.

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. Jean Paul.

Humanity is one, and not till Lazarus is cured of his sores will Dives be safe. Celia Burleigh.

Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity 40 of a man. Adam Smith.

Humanum amare est, humanum autem ignoscere est—It is natural to love, and it is natural also to forgive. Plaut.

Humanum est errare—To err is human.

Humble wedlock is far better than proud virginity. St. Augustine.

Humbleness is always grace, always dignity. Lowell.

Humiles laborant ubi potentes dissident—The 45 humble are in danger when those in power disagree. Phædr.

Humility disarms envy and strikes it dead. Collier.

Humility is a virtue all preach, none practise, and yet everybody is content to hear. The master thinks it good doctrine for his servant, the laity for the clergy, and the clergy for the laity. Selden.

Humility is a virtue of so general, so exceeding good influence, that we can scarce purchase it too dear. Thomas à Kempis.

Humility is often a feigned submission which we employ to supplant others. La Roche.

Humility is the altar upon which God wishes that we should offer Him His sacrifices. La Roche.

Humility is the hall-mark of wisdom. Jeremy Collier.

Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible vicissitudes of life. Arliss' Lit. Col.

Humility is the solid foundation of all the virtues. Confucius.

Humility, that low, sweet root / From which 5 all heavenly virtues shoot. Moore.

Humour has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius. He who wants it, be his other gifts what they may, has only half a mind; an eye for what is above him, not for what is about him or below him. Carlyle.

Humour is a sort of inverse sublimity, exalting, as it were, into our affections what is below us, while sublimity draws down into our affections what is above us. Carlyle.

Humour is consistent with pathos, while wit is not. Coleridge.

Humour is of a genial quality and is closely allied to pity. Henry Giles.

Humour is properly the exponent of low 10 things; that which first renders them poetical to the mind. Carlyle.

Humour is the mistress of tears. Thackeray.

Humour, warm and all-embracing as the sunshine, bathes its objects in a genial and abiding light. Whipple.

Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion all in one. Ruskin.

Hunger and cold betray a man to his enemy. Pr.

Hunger is a good cook. Gael. Pr. 15

Hunger is the best sauce. Pr.

Hunger will break through stone walls. Pr.

Hungry bellies have no ears. Pr.

Hunt half a day for a forgotten dream. Wordsworth.

Hunters generally know the most vulnerable 20 part of the beast they pursue by the care which every animal takes to defend the side which is weakest. Goldsmith.

Hunting was the labour of savages in North America, but the amusement of the gentlemen of England. Johnson.

Hurtar el puerco, y dar los pies por Dios—To steal the pig, and give away the feet for God's sake. Sp. Pr.

Husbands can earn money, but only wives can save it. Pr.

Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother, / That he might not beteem the winds of heaven / Visit her face too roughly. Ham., i. 2.

Hypotheses non fingo—I frame no hypotheses. 25 Sir Isaac Newton.

[Greek: Haploun to dikaion, rhadion to alêthes]—Justice is simple, truth easy. Lycurgus.

Hypothesen sind Wiegenlieder, womit der Lehrer seine Schüler einlullt—Hypotheses are the lullabies with which the teacher lulls his scholars to sleep. Goethe.

Hysteron proteron—The last first, or the cart before the horse. Gr.

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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.

If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well / It were done quickly ... that but this blow / Might be the be all and the end all here. Macb., i. 7.

If it were not for hope, the heart would break. Pr.

If it were not for respect to human opinions, I would not open my window to see the Bay of Naples for the first time, whilst I would go five hundred leagues to talk with a man of genius whom I had not seen. Mme. de Staël.

If Jack were better, Jill would not be so bad. 15 Pr.

If ladies be but young and fair, / They have the gift to know it. As You Like It, ii. 7.

If life, like the olive, is a bitter fruit, then grasp both with the press and they will yield the sweetest oil. Jean Paul.

If man had a higher idea of himself and his destiny, he would neither call his business amusement nor amuse himself instead of transacting business. Goethe.

If man is not kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature. Bacon.

If men duly felt the greatness of God, they 20 would be dumb, and for very veneration unwilling to name Him. Goethe.

If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be made to possess wealth as that it may be said to possess him. Bacon.

If money go before, all ways do lie open. Merry Wives, ii. 2.

If music be the food of love, play on; / Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, / The appetite may sicken, and so die. Twelfth Night, i. 1.

If my person be crooked, my verses shall be straight. Pope.

If Nature is one and a living indivisible 25 whole, much more is mankind, the image that reflects and creates Nature, without which Nature were not. Carlyle.

If new-got gold is said to burn the pockets till it be cast forth into circulation, much more may new truth. Carlyle.

If, of all words of tongue and pen, / The saddest are, "It might have been," / More sad are these we daily see: "It is, but hadn't ought to be." Bret Harte.

If once you find a woman gluttonous, expect from her very little virtue; her mind is enslaved to the lowest and grossest temptation. Johnson.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Thoreau.

If one age believes too much, it is but a natural 30 reaction that another age should believe too little. Buckle.

If one door shuts, another will open. Pr.

If one sees one's fellow-creature following damnable error, by continuing in which the devil is sure to get him at last, are you to let him go towards such consummation, or are you not rather to use all means to save him? Carlyle.

If one were to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still. Johnson.

If our era is an era of unbelief, why murmur at it? Is there not a better coming—nay, come? Carlyle. See Matt. v. 4.

If people did not flatter one another, there 35 would be little society. Vauvenargues.

If people take no care for the future, they will soon have sorrow for the present. Chinese Pr.

If people were constant, it would surprise me. For see, is not everything in the world subject to change? Why then should our affections continue? Goethe.

If people would whistle more and argue less, the world would be much happier and probably just as wise. Book of Wisdom.

If poverty is the mother of crimes, want of sense is the father of them. La Bruyère.

If poverty makes a man groan, he yawns in 40 opulence. Rivarol.

If reasons were as plenty as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion. 1 Hen. IV., ii. 4.

If Satan ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites; they are the greatest dupes he has. Colton.

If she be not fit for me, / What care I for whom she be? G. Wither.

If solid happiness we prize, / Within our breast this jewel lies, / And they are fools who roam. / The world has nothing to bestow; / From our own selves our joys must flow, / And that dear hut, our home. N. Cotton.

If sorrow falls, / Take comfort still in deeming there may be / A way to peace on earth by woes of ours. Sir Edwin Arnold.

If speculation tends to a terrific unity, in 5 which all things are absorbed, action tends directly backwards to diversity. Emerson.

If that God give, the deil daurna reave (bereave). Sc. Pr.

If that thy fame with every toy be posed, / 'Tis a thin web which poisonous fancies make; / But the great soldier's honour was composed / Of thicker stuff, which would endure a shake. George Herbert.

If the Almighty waited six thousand years for a man to see what He has made, I may well wait two hundred for others to see what I have seen. Kepler. See Isa. xxviii. 16 (last clause).

If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it spoken, we moderns are building houses for them. A. B. Alcott.

If the beard were all, the goat might preach. 10 Dan. Pr.

If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. Heb. Pr.

If the cap fit, wear it. Pr.

If the chaff-cutter had the making of us, we should all be straw, I reckon. George Eliot.

If the counsel be good, no matter who gave it. Pr.

If the deil were dead, folk would do little for 15 God's sake. Sc. Pr.

If the devil takes a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as he was with them. Lowell.

If the doctor cures, the sun sees it; if he kills, the earth hides it. Sc. Pr.

If the East loves infinity, the West delights in boundaries. Emerson.

If the eye were not of a sunny nature (sonnenhaft), how could it see the sun? If God's own power did not exist within us, how could the godlike delight us? Goethe.

If the farmer cannot live who drives the plough, 20 how can he live who drives a fast-trotting mare? Pr.

If the heart of a man is depressed with cares, / The mist is dispelled when a woman appears. Gay.

If the hungry lion (invited to a feast of chickenweed) is to feast at all, it cannot be on the chickenweed, but only on the chickens. Carlyle.

If the king is in the palace, nobody looks at the walls. It is when he is gone, and the house is filled with grooms and gazers, that we turn from the people to find relief in the majestic men that are suggested by the pictures and the architecture. Emerson.

"If the Lord tarry, yet wait for Him," for He "will surely come" and heal thee. Thomas à Kempis.

If the mountain will not come to Mahomet, 25 Mahomet will go to the mountain. Mahomet.

If the nose of Cleopatra had been a little shorter, it would have changed the history of the world. Pascal.

If the paternal cottage still shuts us in, its roof still screens us; and with a father we have as yet a prophet, priest, and king, and an obedience that makes us free. Carlyle.

If the pills were pleasant, they would not be gilded. Pr.

If the poet have nothing to interpret and reveal, it is better that he remain silent. C. Fitzhugh.

If the poor man cannot always get meat, the 30 rich man cannot always digest it. Henry Giles.

If the profession you have chosen has some unexpected inconveniences, console yourself by reflecting that no profession is without them. Johnson.

If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. Emerson.

If the sun shines on me, what matters the moon? Pr.

If the sky fall, we shall catch larks. Pr.

If the time don't suit you, suit yourself to the 35 time. Turk. Pr.

If the tongue had not been formed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest. Emerson.

If the true did not possess an objective value, human curiosity would have died out centuries ago. Renan.

If the weather don't happen to be good for my work to-day, it's good for some other man's, and will come round to me to-morrow. Dickens.

If the world were put into one scale and my mother into the other, the world would kick the beam. Lord Langdale.

If the young knew, if the old could, there's 40 nothing but would be done. Pr.

If there be / A devil in man, there is an angel too. Tennyson.

If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death. Pythagoras.

If there be no enemy, no fight; if no fight, no victory; if no victory, no crown. Savanar.

If there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin. Carlyle.

If there were no clouds, we should not enjoy 45 the sun. Pr.

If there were no falsehood in the world, there would be no doubt; if no doubt, no inquiry; and if no inquiry, no wisdom, no knowledge, no genius. Landor.

If there were no fools, there would be no knaves. Pr.

If there were only one religion in the world, it would be haughtily and licentiously despotic. Frederick the Great.

If there's a hole in a' your coats, / I rede ye tent it: / A chiel's amang you takin' notes, / And faith he'll prent it. Burns, of Capt. Grose.

If they do these things in the green tree, what shall be done in the dry? Jesus.

If they hear not Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rose from the dead. Jesus.

If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf. Fuller.

If them art rich, thou art poor; / For, like an ass whose back with ingots bows, / Thou bear'st thy heavy riches but a journey, / And death unloads thee. Meas. for Meas., iii. 1.

If thou art wise, thou knowest thine own 5 ignorance; and thou art ignorant, if thou knowest not thyself. Luther.

If thou be a severe, sour-complexioned man, then here I disallow thee to be a competent judge. Isaac Walton.

If thou be master-gunner, spend not all / That thou canst speak at once, but husband it. George Herbert.

If thou bear the cross cheerfully, it will bear thee. Thomas à Kempis.

If thou canst let others alone in their matters, they likewise will not hinder thee in thine. Thomas à Kempis.

If thou cast away one cross, without doubt 10 thou shalt find another, and that perhaps more heavy. Thomas à Kempis.

If thou deniest to a laborious man and a deserving, thou killest a bee; if thou givest to other than such, thou preservest a drone. Quarles.

If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? Bible.

If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. Bible.

If thou hast fear of those who command thee, spare those who obey thee. Rabbi Ben Azai.

If thou hast run with the footmen, and they 15 have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan? Bible.

If thou love learning, thou shalt be learned. Isocrates.

If thou seest the oppression of the poor, ... marvel not at the matter; for He that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they. Bible.

If thou sustain injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it. Democrates.

If thou wouldst profit by thy reading, read humbly, simply, honestly, and not desiring to win a character for learning. Thomas à Kempis.

If thou wouldst reap in love, / First sow in 20 holy fear; / So life a winter's morn may prove / To a bright endless year. Keble.

If thy estate be good, match near home and at leisure; if weak, far off and quickly. Lord Burleigh.

If thy son can make ten pound his measure, / Then all thou addest may be called his treasure. George Herbert.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. Mer. of Ven., i. 2.

If truth be with thy friend, be with them both. George Herbert.

If vain our toil, we ought to blame the culture, 25 not the soil. Pope.

If virtue keep court within, honour will attend without. Pr.

If we are not famous for goodness, we are practically infamous. Spurgeon.

If we are rich with the riches which we neither give nor enjoy, we are rich with the riches which are buried in the caverns of the earth. Hitopadesa.

If we are told a man is religious, we still ask what are his morals; but if we hear he has honest morals, we seldom think of the other question, whether he be religious. Shaftesbury.

If we are wise, we may thank ourselves; if we 30 are great, we must thank fortune. Bulwer Lytton.

If we bear what we must bear with murmuring and grudging, we do but gall our shoulders with the yoke, and render that a heavy unprofitable load which might be fruitful and glorious. Thomas à Kempis.

If we ... / Cannot defend our own doors from the dog, / Let us be worried, and our nation lose / The name of hardiness and policy. Hen. V., i. 2.

If we cannot help committing errors, we must build none. Goethe.

If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least live so as to deserve happiness. Fichte.

If we cast off one burden, we are immediately 35 pursued and oppressed by another. Thomas à Kempis.

If we clear the metaphysical element out of modern literature, we shall find its bulk amazingly diminished, and the claims of the remaining writers, or of those whom we have thinned by this abstraction of their straw-stuffing, much more easily adjusted. Ruskin.

If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification. Time takes away as much as it gives. Mme. de Sévigné.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. Longfellow.

If we do not find happiness in the present moment, in what shall we find it? Goldsmith.

If we do not now reckon a great man literally 40 divine, it is that our notions of the divine are ever rising higher; not altogether that our reverence for the divine, as manifested in our like, is getting lower. Carlyle.

If we do well here, we shall do well there. J. Edwin.

If we engage into a large acquaintance and various familiarities, we set open our gates to the invaders of most of our time. Cowley.

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future. Pascal.

If we fail to conquer smaller difficulties, what will become of us when assaulted by greater? Themas à Kempis.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is. Addison.

If we live truly, we shall see truly. Emerson.

If we love those we lose, can we altogether lose those we love? Thackeray.

If we reflect on the number of men we have seen and know, and consider how little we have been to them and they to us, what must our feelings be? (wie wird uns da zu Muthe). We meet with the man of genius (Geistreich) without conversing with him, with the scholar without learning from him, with the traveller without gaining information from him, the amiable man without making ourselves agreeable to him. And this, alas! happens not merely with passing acquaintances; society and families conduct themselves similarly towards their dearest members, cities towards their worthiest citizens, peoples towards their most excellent princes, and nations towards their most eminent men. Goethe.