Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

An indifferent agreement is better than a good verdict. Pr.

An individual helps not; only he who unites with many at the proper time. Goethe.

An individual man is a fruit which it cost all 40 the foregoing ages to form and ripen. Emerson.

An infant crying in the night, / An infant crying for the light; / And with no language but a cry. Tennyson.

An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men. Ruskin.

An innocent man needs no eloquence; his innocence is instead of it. Ben Jonson.

An iron hand in a velvet glove. Charles V., said of a gentle compulsion.

An irreverent knowledge is no knowledge; 45 it may be a development of the logical or other handicraft faculty, but is no culture of the soul of a man. Carlyle.

An nescis longas regibus esse manus?—Do you not know that kings have long, i.e., far-grasping, hands? Ovid.

An nescis, quantilla prudentia mundus regatur (or regatur orbis)?—Do you not know with how very little wisdom the world is governed? Axel Oxenstjerna to his son.