The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great. Voltaire.
The influence which we exercise over other objects depends on the influence we have over ourselves. Cötvös.
The injuries of life, if rightly improved, will be 35 to us as the strokes of the statuary on his marble, forming us to a more beautiful shape, and making us fitter to adorn the heavenly temple. Mather.
The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public. Junius.
The ingratitude of the world can never deprive us of the conscious happiness of having acted with humanity ourselves. Goldsmith.
The initial virtue of the race consists in the acknowledgment of their own lowly nature, and submission to the laws of higher being. Ruskin.
The ink of the scholar and the blood of the martyr are of equal value in the eye of heaven. The Koran.
The innocent seldom find an uneasy pillow. 40 Cowper.
The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it; and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature. Bacon.
The insolence of condescension. Burns.