It is proper and beneficial sometimes to be left to thyself. Thomas à Kempis.
It is prudent to be on the reserve even with your best friend, when he betrays a too eager curiosity to worm out your secret. La Bruyère.
It is rare indeed that there is not ample 40 occasion for grumbling. John Wagstaffe.
It is religion that has formed the Bible, not the Bible that has formed religion. R. D. C. Levin.
It is sad to have to live in a place where all our activity must simmer within ourselves. Goethe.
It is sad to see how an extraordinary man so often strangles himself, struggling in vain with himself, his circumstances, and his time, without once coming upon a green branch. Goethe.
It is said no man is a hero to his valet. The reason is that it requires a hero to recognise a hero. The valet, however, will probably know well enough how to estimate his equals. Goethe.
It is so much easier to do what one has done 45 before than to do a new thing, that there is a perpetual tendency to a set mode. Emerson.
It is St. Christopher that carries Christ, not Christ St. Christopher, i.e., in this myth, it is not Christ that bears the Church, but the Church that bears Christ. Ed.
It is sure to be dark if you shut your eyes. Pr.