I am but a gatherer and disposer of other men's stuff. Sir Henry Wotton.
I am constant as the northern star, / Of whose true-fix'd and resting quality / There is no fellow in the firmament. Jul. Cæs., iii. 1.
I am convinced that the Bible always becomes 40 more beautiful the better it is understood, that is, the better we see that every word which we apprehend in general and apply in particular had a proper, peculiar, and immediately individual reference to certain circumstances, certain time and space relations, i.e., had a specially direct bearing on the spiritual life of the time in which it was written. Goethe.
I am equally an enemy to a female dunce and a female pedant. Goldsmith.
I am fortune's fool. Rom. and Jul., iii. 1.
I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and that its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the sun, which, to our eyes, seems to set in night; but it has in reality only gone to diffuse its light elsewhere. Goethe.
I am monarch of all I survey, / My right there is none to dispute; / From the centre all round to the sea, / I am lord of the fowl and the brute. Cowper.
I am more afraid of my own heart than of the 45 Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, self. Luther.
I am neither so weak as to fear men, so proud as to despise them, or so unhappy as to hate them. Marmontel.
I am never merry when I hear sweet music. Mer. of Ven., v. 1.