If any one tells you that a man has changed his character, don't believe it. Mahomet.
If any speak ill of thee, fly home to thy own conscience and examine thy heart. If thou art guilty, it is a fair correction; if not guilty, it is a fair instruction. George Herbert.
If any would not work, neither should he eat. St. Paul.
If blushing makes ugly people so beautiful, ought it not to make the beautiful still more beautiful? Lessing.
If coals do not burn, they blacken. Pr.
If cheerfulness knocks for admission, we should 5 open our hearts wide to receive it, for it never comes inopportunely. Schopenhauer.
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses. Goethe.
If cut (in the costume) betoken intellect and talent, so does the colour betoken temper and heart. Carlyle.
If destructive criticism is injurious in anything, it is in matters of religion, for here everything depends upon faith, to which we cannot return when we have once lost it. Goethe.
If each one does his duty as an individual, and if each one works rightly in his own vocation, it will be well with the whole. Goethe.