Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath. Johnson.

In learning anything, its first principles alone 40 should be taught by constraint. Goethe.

In letters, if anywhere, we look for the man, not for the author. Blair.

In life a friend may be often found and lost; but an old friend never can be found, and Nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost. Johnson.

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves. Bulwer Lytton.

In life every situation may bring its own peculiar pleasures. Goldsmith.

In life there is no present. Byron. 45

In limine—At the threshold or outset.

In literature to-day there are plenty good masons, but few good architects. Joubert.

In loco parentis—In the place of a parent.