It is better to live in a haunted forest ... than 35 to live amongst relations after the loss of wealth. Hitopadesa.
It is better to live on the crust of your own industry than on the fruits of other people's. Cervantes.
It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race. B. R. Haydon.
It is better to trust the eye than the ear. Ger. Pr.
It is bitter fare eating one's own words. Dan. Pr.
It is but the outer hem of God's great mantle 40 our poor stars do gem. Ruskin.
It is but vain to waste honey on those that will be caught with gall. Quarles.
It is by attempting to reach the top by a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world. Cobbett.
It is by being conversant with the inventions of others that we learn to invent, as by reading the thoughts of others we learn to think. Joshua Reynolds.
It is by faith that poetry as well as devotion soars above this dull earth. Henry Giles.