Part 49

In families well ordered there is always one firm, sweet temper, which controls without seeming to dictate. The Greeks represented Persuasion as crowned.--Bulwer-Lytton.

~Ingratitude.~--The great bulk of mankind resemble the swine, which in harvest gather and fatten upon the acorns beneath the oak, but show to the tree which bore them no other thanks than rubbing off its bark, and tearing up the sod around it.--Scriver.

One great cause of our insensibility to the goodness of our Creator is the very extensiveness of his bounty.--Paley.

~Injustice.~--The injustice of men subserves the justice of God, and often his mercy.--Madame Swetchine.

~Ink.~--A drop of ink may make a million think.--Byron.

Let there be gall enough in thy ink; though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter.--Shakespeare.

The colored slave that waits upon thought.--Mrs. Balfour.

Oh, she is fallen into a pit of ink, that the wide sea hath drops too few to wash her clean again!--Shakespeare.

My ways are as broad as the king's high road, and my means lie in an inkstand.--Southey.

~Innocence.~--He's armed without that's innocent within.--Pope.

There is no courage but in innocence.--Southern.

There is no man so good who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the law, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.--Montaigne.

~Innovation.~--The ridiculous rage for innovation, which only increases the weight of the chains it cannot break, shall never fire my blood!--Schiller.

Dislike of innovation proceeds sometimes from the disgust excited by false humanity, canting hypocrisy, and silly enthusiasm.--Sydney Smith.

~Insanity.~--Insanity is not a distinct and separate empire; our ordinary life borders upon it, and we cross the frontier in some part of our nature.--Taine.

~Inspiration.~--Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration? After our subtlest analysis of the mental process, we must still say that our highest thoughts and our best deeds are all given to us.--George Eliot.

Contagious enthusiasm.--Mrs. Balfour.

~Instinct.~--The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.--Newton.

Instinct harmonizes the interior of animals as religion does the interior of men.--Jacobi.

All our first movements are good, generous, heroical; reflection weakens and kills them.--Aimé Martin.

An instinct is a propensity prior to experience, and independent of instruction.--Paley.

~Insult.~--It is only the vulgar who are always fancying themselves insulted. If a man treads on another's toe in good society do you think it is taken as an insult?--Lady Hester Stanhope.

I once met a man who had forgiven an injury. I hope some day to meet the man who has forgiven an insult.--Charles Buxton.

~Insurrection.~--Insurrection unusually gains little; usually wastes how much! One of its worst kind of wastes, to say nothing of the rest, is that of irritating and exasperating men against each other by violence done; which is always sure to be injustice done, for violence does even justice unjustly.--Carlyle.

~Intellect.~--The commerce of intellect loves distant shores. The small retail dealer trades only with his neighbor; when the great merchant trades, he links the four quarters of the globe.--Bulwer-Lytton.

~Intelligence.~--The higher feelings, when acting in harmonious combination, and directed by enlightened intellect, have a boundless scope for gratification; their least indulgence is delightful, and their highest activity is bliss.--Combe.

Some men of a secluded and studious life have sent forth from their closet or their cloister, rays of intellectual light that have agitated courts and revolutionized kingdoms; like the moon which, though far removed from the ocean, and shining upon it with a serene and sober light, is the chief cause of all those ebbings and flowings which incessantly disturb that restless world of waters.--Colton.

Light has spread, and even bayonets think.--Kossuth.