People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.—Goldsmith.
Improvidence.—How full or how empty our lives, depends, we say, on Providence. Suppose we say, more or less on improvidence.—Bovée.
Income.—Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.—Colton.
Inconsistency.—Men talk as if they believed in God, but they live as if they thought there was none: their vows and promises are no more than words of course.—L'Estrange.
People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool's caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else's are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone were rosy.—George Eliot.
Inconstancy.—The catching court disease.—Otway.
Nothing that is not a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconstancy.—Addison.
Indifference.—Nothing for preserving the body like having no heart.—J. Petit Senn.
Indifference is the invincible giant of the world.—Ouida.
Indigestion.—Old friendships are destroyed by toasted cheese, and hard salted meat has led to suicide. Unpleasant feelings of the body produce correspondent sensations in the mind, and a great scene of wretchedness is sketched out by a morsel of indigestible and misguided food.—Sydney Smith.