It is with diseases of the mind as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorders, and half cured when we do. Colton.
It is with history as it is with nature, as it is with everything profound, past, present, or future; the deeper we earnestly search into them, the more difficult are the problems that arise. He who does not fear these, but boldly confronts them, will, with every step or advance, feel himself both more at his ease and more highly educated. Goethe.
It is with ideas as with pieces of money; those of least value generally circulate the best. Punch.
It is with narrow-soul'd people as with narrow-neck'd 35 bottles; the less they have in them the more noise they make in pouring it out. Swift.
It is with our thoughts as with flowers. Those whose expression is simple carry their seed with them; those that are double, by their richness and pomp charm the mind, but produce nothing. Joubert.
It is with words as with sunbeams; the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. Southey.
It makes a great difference to the force of any sentence whether there be a man behind it or no. In the learned journal, in the influential newspaper, I discern no form; only some irresponsible shadow; oftener some moneyed corporation, or some dangler, who hopes, in the mask and robes of his paragraph, to pass for somebody. Emerson.
It matters less to a man where he is born than where he can live. Turk. Pr.
It matters little whether a man be mathematically, 40 or philologically, or artistically cultivated, so he be cultivated. Goethe.
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. Johnson.