In the state nobody can enjoy life in peace, 20 but everybody must govern; in art, nobody will enjoy what has been produced, but every one wants to reproduce on his own account. Goethe.
In the sweat of thy brow shalt thou eat thy bread. Bible.
In the true Utopia, man will rather harness himself with his oxen to his plough, than leave the devil to drive it. Ruskin.
In the unhappy man forget the foe. Addison.
In the utmost solitudes of Nature, the existence of hell seems to me as legibly declared by a thousand spiritual utterances as that of heaven. Ruskin.
In the way of righteousness is life; and in the 25 pathway thereof there is no death. Bible.
In the wilderness of life there are springs and palm-trees. S. Lover.
In the winter, warmth stands for all virtue. Thoreau.
In the works of many celebrated authors men are mere personifications. We have not a jealous man, but jealousy; not a traitor, but perfidy; not a patriot, but patriotism. The mind of Bunyan, on the contrary, was so imaginative that personifications, when he dealt with them, became men. Macaulay.
In the world's opinion marriage, as in a play, winds up everything; whereas it is, in fact, the beginning of everything. Mme. Swetchine.