In failing circumstances no one can be relied on to keep their integrity. |
In nature nothing can be given, all things are sold |
In politics and in trade, bruisers and pirates are of better promise than talkers and clerks. |
In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed. |
In skating over thin ice our safety is our speed |
In the great books of India, an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence, which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the questions that exercise us |
In the hands of the discoverer, medicine becomes a heroic art . . . wherever life is dear he is a demigod. |
In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours; whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity |
In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs. |
In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part |
Infancy conforms to nobody; all conform to it. |
Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it. |
Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise |
Insist on yourself; never imitate |
Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession. |