It is as great a point of wisdom to hide ignorance, as to discover knowledge. (?)
It is as little the part of a wise man to reflect much on the nature of beings above him as of beings beneath him. Ruskin.
It is as much a part of true temperance to be pleased with the little that we know and the little that we can do as with the little that we have. Ruskin.
It is as much intemperance to weep too much 50 as to laugh too much. Pr.
It is as natural for the old to be prejudiced as for the young to be presumptuous; and in the change of centuries each generation has something to judge for itself. Ruskin.
It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet an old man whose opinions are not ossified. J. F. Boyes.
It is as sport to a fool to do mischief. Bible.
It is at least fatal to the philosophic pretension of a line or stanza if, when it is fairly reduced to prose, the prose discloses that it is nonsense. John Morley.
It is bad, having once known the right, / And the impulse of nobleness prized, / To accept the less worthy, and order the fight / For a cause that is meaner, and walk by a light / That you once had despised. Dr. Walter Smith.
It is beneath the dignity of a soul that has but a grain of sense to make chance, and winds, and waves the arbitrary disposers of happiness. Lucas.